I’m really impressed with efficiency of Apple custom designed Arm cores, this prove that spec numbers don’t matter, what matter is performance numbers…

iPhone 5: Apple A6
1GHz, 2 cores (custom Arm cores)
Score=1601

Galaxy S3: Samsung Exynos 4412
1.4GHz, 4 cores (standard Arm Cortex A9 cores)
Score=1560

Nexus 7 tablet: NVidia Tegra 3
1.3GHz, 4 cores + 1 small core (also A9 cores)
Score=1591

Apple A6 runs at lower clock speed and has less cores, BUT performs faster.

Link to benchmark: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6298/analyzi...ekbench-results
The source is not fully verified, but roughly in line with 2X performance claimed by Apple. Who is winner is not the point here, it’s the amazing efficiency when you look at the spec!

Expect even better graphics performance, since previously the highest scoring S3 GPU beats 4S by not much only.