iPhone 4: Faster than the 3GS but slower than the iPad

The first benchmarks for the iPhone 4 demonstrate, as it was to be expected, that the performances are higher than the iPhone 3Gs but still inferior to the iPad. Even though both devices feature the new Apple A4 processor, the iPad works with a superior resolution (1024 x 760 against 960 x 640 pixels for the iPhone 4) and deal with only 256 MB RAM against 512 MB available for the iPhone 4.

Apple hasn’t revealed the clock frequency on the iPhone 4’s processor, and even the benchmarks cannot figure it out, but it should be slightly inferior than the iPad (1Ghz) in order to avoid overheating and allow the battery to live longer.

However, the tests were done with the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 using the iOS4, while the iPad still has the 3.2. The Geekbench 2 application registers a score of 354 for the iPhone 4 and 270 for the iPhone 3Gs, while Benchtest gives a score of 2298 to the iPhone 3GS, 2514 to the iPhone 4 and 3.367 to the iPad.