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Benchmarking iOS 5

Posted By admin On October 15, 2011 @ 6:48 pm In All,AppStore,Firmware,Free,Software | Comments Disabled

Gigaom has performed ^[1] several tests of iOS 5 comparing it to different iOS 4 versions. The tests were run in iPad 1 Wi-Fi, iPhone 4 (GSM), iPod touch 4G and the iPad 2 Wi-Fi+3G (GSM).

As indicated by the charts below the iOS 5 is showing many speed improvements over iOS 4. iOS 5 was faster in almost every category, except for the first generation iPad.

iphone4-test-ios5

The following apps were used to test the performance: GeekBench 2 ^[2] ($0.99), Gauge Mathematical Tool ^[3] (free), BenchTest ^[4] ($0.99), SunSpider ^[5] (free) and V8 ^[6] (free).

More results:

ipod4-test-ios5

ipad2-test-ios5

ipad1-test-ios5

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[1] has performed: http://gigaom.com/apple/benchmarking-the-ios-5-update/

[2] GeekBench 2: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geekbench-2/id377657310?mt=8

[3] Gauge Mathematical Tool: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gauge-mathematical-tool/id324905769?mt=8

[4] BenchTest: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/benchtest/id338988522?mt=8

[5] SunSpider: http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html

[6] V8: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v5/revisions.html

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