The iPhone was hailed as the next great plateform for handheld video games, now it looks like the iPhone 3GS has gone above and beyond the capabilities of the previous iPhone. According to OpenGL benchmarks the CPU of the new iPhone 3GS is about 40 to70% faste than the previous iPhone with a fillrate that is 3 to 4 times faster. Also, the texture effects and filters are 10 times faster. Those are big numbers, but the iPhone 3GS was running OpenGL1.x for this benchmark test and the 3GS is capable of running OpenGL2.x so when games are developed for that they will no longer be able to run properly on the older iPhone and iPhone 3G. Looks like another good reason to upgrade to the new iPhone 3GS.
* The CPU performance is Faster by 40-70%
* The fillrate* is 3x to 4x higher
* Texture effects and filters are about 10x faster
-Ray
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