The iPhone 5 was first benchmarked a few days before its street date and was found to be very fast, completely destroying completing Android devices but now it seems the processor is even faster than we thought.
The older iPhone 5 benchmark was done on an outdated version of Geekbench and now that the benchmark tool has been updated for iOS 6 the iPhone 5 was set through the paces once again. This time the phone’s processor was constantly reported to be clocked at 1.29GHz which is a 270MHz speed increase from its previously reported speed of 1.02GHz.
The latest iPhone 5 benchmark also improved the phone’s benchmark score to 1616 up from 1601. For comparison the iPhone 4S scored 630, Nexus 7 scored 1591, One X scored 1085, and Galaxy S III which is touted to be the iPhone 5′s main competitor scored 1560.
Engadget talked to John Poole of Primate Labs (developers of Geekbench) who laid the rumors of the iPhone 5 overclocking its processor for demanding tasks to rest:
I don’t believe the A6 has any form of processor boost. In our testing, we found the 1.3GHz was constant regardless of whether one core or both cores were busy.
What speed does your iPhone 5 show? Download the latest version of Geekbench and check!