The iPhone 5 isn’t in the hands of the reviewers, tinkerers and tear-down merchants yet, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from running a theoretical benchmark test on the new handset. And guess what? Apple wasn’t kidding when it said the new iPhone was fast.

In this gaping chasm of time between now and the 21st, iPhone 5 fans have got little to do but twiddle their thumbs and crunch numbers. The latter activity has thrown up some interesting results, as a benchgeek benchmark test puts the iPhone 5 ahead of the Android competition.

When fed through the benchmark mangle, the iPhone 5’s 1GHz dual-core A6 chip scores 1601, comfortably ensuring it lives up to Apple’s notions of it being twice as fast as the iPhone 4S (which scored under 800).

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That monster score lands the iPhone 5 above the Galaxy S3 (at 1560) and the Nexus 7 tablet (at 1590). Mighty impressive stuff. The only caveat here is that with Jelly Bean installed, the Galaxy S3 maxes out at 1781.

But still, the fact that the iPhone 5 is speedier than Google’s flagship tablet is a bit of a surprise left hook from Apple.

Link: Android Authority

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  • Mark Stronge

    Completely none story. I How about a headline that the ip5 is slower than the sgs3 significantly when the s3 is running jellybean?

  • dandan101

    Why the hell do all these stats matter. My galaxy nexus is still quick with jellybean. I mean come on. How much faster can a phone get when its pretty much instant. Why do people always war over phones.

  • slikk07

    A theoretical benchmark being considered when the phone hasn’t even been released against phones that have done an actual physical benchmark test..hmm

  • ARBITrabbit

    The SGS3 that you are using for comparison is the dual core version. The quad core comfortably beats iPhone 5.

  • jaamgans

    How does one run a “a theoretical benchmark test”? Does that mean as the 4s runs at 800 an Apple say it is twice as fast does that mean it has to theoretically run at 1600 and hence this story?

    Personally considering all the claims on the 4s and the reality I would rather wait for an actual benchmark of working phones prior to comparing.

  • Dafak???

    Pure bs, ur claiming a high end dual core is scoring better then high end quad cores? Give me a break

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