Recent benchmarks of five smartphone models and two tablets reveal some interesting stats -- while the current iPhone 4 ranks at the bottom when compared to newer Android handsets like the Samsung Galaxy S 2, Apple’s iPad 2 is the clear winner when it comes to mobile devices.
AnandTech recently ran benchmark tests on the new Samsung Galaxy S 2 smartphone as a followup to their review of the handset, which as you can see from the chart below, easily flies past competing devices with the same OS and even Apple’s media darling, the iPhone 4. But as fast as Samsung’s latest handset is, the chart also reveals that smartphones (and even that company’s latest tablet) have a long way to go in catching up with the raw speed of an iPad 2.
“Samsung implemented a 4-core version of the Mali-400 in the 4210 and its resulting performance is staggering as you can see above,” the report notes. “Although it's still not as fast as the PowerVR SGX 543MP2 found in the iPad 2, it's anywhere from 1.7 - 4x faster than anything that's shipping in a smartphone today.”
Indeed, the iPhone 4’s A4 processor scored a mere 11.2 on the benchmark tests, coming in dead last against a variety of recent Android handsets including the Nexus S, LG Optimus 3D and Samsung Infuse 4G. While that situation is likely to be soon remedied with the arrival of an iPhone 5 this fall, Cupertino has a commanding lead with the iPad 2 that no other tablet or smartphone will likely approach for some time.
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