New tests are confirming what iPhone fans all across the world have known for quite sometime now – the iPhone 3GS is truly the best mobile gaming platform out there. Cheap and easily accessible games are now accompanied by some truly impressive hardware. Recently released OpenGL tests confirm that the 3GS obliterates the competition in the graphical arena. To give you a taste of the specs, the new iPhone could perform a linear texture filter test at 5,214 kTriangles/s whereas the original iPhone could only do 572 kTriangles/s and the venerable N95 could do 601 kTriangles/s.
Reports are also surfacing that the iPhone is only one of two consumer level phones that use the Cortex-A8 processor. Evidently, ARMs official specifications put it at over double the speed of the ARM11 – the processor used by the 3G. With regards to graphics, the new chipset is a version of the SGX which supports both shaders and OpenGL ES 2.0. Unfortunately, this doesn’t help much because the SGX has a wide lineup from the 520 model which is about 7x as powerful as the 3G to the 555 which has better specifications than the PSP. There have been conflicting reports recently although the general consensus seems to be that the new 3GS is using the SGX535, which can do 28 million polys/s, just 5 million shy of what the PSP can do.
That makes the iPhone one mean gaming machine that would appear to far excel any phone on the market, although the list of phones included in the benchmarking site is somewhat slim. Still, there’s no question about it in my mind: the iPhone is by far the best phone on the market if you want to play games. At this stage it’s a little bit like blending the PSP and a phone together which is a wicked combination for any avid gamer.
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