Yesterday a Chinese team presented to the whole world a first video clip with benchmarks made for the new iPhone 4S terminal and we learn that it has almost double the performance of the iPhone 4 in terms of web browsing. Of course, the performances were measured in benchmarks and in real life the difference might not be so noticeable, but the results obtained highlight the brute force of the new A5 Chip. However, the hardware is not the only improvement because iOS 5 bring a version of Safari whose performance is almost double that of iOS 4.2.1.
In the image above we have a benchmark for Safari running on iOS 4.2.1 and you can see that iPhone 4 gets a score of 31375 points. In iOS 5 with the new version of Safari, Apple's browser gets a much better score of almost 54000 points and everything is due to the optimizations made by Apple. From a hardware point of view, iDevices are capable of achieving good web browsing performance, but the only thing that seems to hold them back is the software.
For the iPhone 4S, the situation is similar because in future updates the device from Apple could even have double the performance compared to the current ones, but not only for browsing the web.
