Apart from a larger and better resolution touchscreen display, the iPad also boasts of a brand new chip running at the core, an Apple A4 1GHz processor to be exact. So, how does this new processor stack up against Cortex A8 processor of the iPhone 3G S and the Nexus One’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor? Well, Anandtech did a comparison of the three using an official Webkit SunSpider Javascript Benchmark and based on web-page loading times, and the champ in both tests is the iPad.
Of course, with the Nexus One, you also have to factor in the use of a totally different OS (Android), but it’s undeniable that the pairing of the new A4 processor and the iPad OS is a match made in heaven.
These findings will likewise bold well for the upcoming 4G iPhone as many speculate that it too will be bundled with the A4 processor making it compete better with the current breed of Snapdragon-based smartphones such as the Nexus One. Add to that the bevy of new features that iPhone OS 4.0 is expected to introduce, then that’s definitely one iPhone that’s worth watching out for.
[anandtech via unwiredview]
Performance chart after the break.
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April 6th, 2010 at 1:02 am
Look at the new app. i found for the new iPad
http://www.200linx.com/
it so cool, and handy…
enjoy
April 6th, 2010 at 5:10 am
Looking upon the remarkable features I would surely like to purchase a ipad very soon..it would be all the more easy to carry it rather then taking a i phone and a laptop.
April 6th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Was the phone function disabled on the Iphone 3GS and Nexus One during the tests? Presumably the Ipad is running less background processes (due to it’s lack of 3G capability) than either phone and therefore has more resources available to use.
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April 6th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
wow … iPad vs Phone then iPad wins.
Now benchmark it against AMDs slowest desktop offering atm.
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April 8th, 2010 at 3:00 am
I find that the iPhone is fantastic with all these little apps, being able to do pretty much everything on the move is fantastic. You can attend to pretty much anything, anywhere, anytime! The future has arrived and I love it!