iPhone, iPhone 3G Slower than 2nd Gen iPod Touch
If you had thought that the iPhone 3G was an iPod Touch and a phone (also GPS) bundled together then you might be right but that might not be completely accurate if you consider performance.
Handheld Games Corp’s CEO Thomas Fessler has revealed that performance of their 3D TouchSports Tennis iPhone game is noticeably better on the 2nd generation iPod Touch as compared to the iPhone 3G, iPhone and 1st generation iPod Touch.
Thomas Fessler has this to say:
"Our first step to increase fps performance was to introduce hardware dependent levels of detail. Where we can easily display two 1500 polygon tennis players with 32 bones each on the iPod touch 2G and maintain fast and fluid game play, the original iPod touch just chokes, and in some instances so do the iPhones. To speed up the touch, we reduced the players to 800 polygons in farther away moments of gameplay, and are now using 1000 polygon models for close ups, bringing the original iPod touch game play performance level close to that of the iPhone 3G. We’ve taken this approach across the board with great results."
As you can see from the video, TouchSports Tennis '09 [iTunes App Store link] game still delivers impressive 3D rendering:
If are impressed with the video and plan to buy the iPhone app then proceed with caution as there is a note on their application page which says "This application is not compatible with devices running some types of modified firmware."
One of the reasons for the performance improvement in the 2nd generation iPod Touch is due to a much faster processor which has been quietly boosted to 532MHz; while iPhone 3G, iPhone or 1st generation iPod have processors which run at 412MHz.
Fessler also points out that iPhone 3G which was released this year is faster than the 1st gen iPhone and iPod Touch that were released last year. The models rank in the following order (fastest to slowest) for 3D rendering, with the 2nd Generation iPod Touch being the fastest “by far”.
#1. iPod Touch 2nd Generation
#2. iPhone 3G
#3. iPhone (original)
#4. iPod Touch 1st Generation
Fessler speculates that the GPU speeds could have been tweaked as well. Based on these findings, Fessler says that he would not recommend anyone interested in gaming to buy a used 1st generation iPod Touch.
But as you can see below, the iPhone still compares quite favorably with other mobile gaming devices in terms of processor speed:
- Sony PSP
- Processor: MIPS CPU @ 222 or 333MHz (selectable)
- Nintendo DS
- Processor: two ARM CPUs (67MHz and 33MHz)
- iPhone
- Processor: ARM CPU @ 412MHz (532MHz in 2G iPod touch)
What do you think about this latest news?
PS: If you are interested in an in-depth look at the iPhone’s internals, then I would recommend reading Under the Hood: The iPhone’s Gaming Mettle over at Touch Arcade.
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I own a copy of this specific game and it just loads the main screen and then crashes, and so on everytime I launch it. I never became able to see the game or to play it.
I have the iPhone 3G 8GB black.
Posted by: Zed Sefi | November 23, 2008 at 06:04 PM
I think this app. won't work on pwnged phone as it says in its description "this application is not compatible with devices running some type of modified firmware" if any one who has tried on their pwanged phone and worked let me know i want to buy this app.
Posted by: amit | November 23, 2008 at 06:33 PM
hey amit i was just playing this gave on my iphone 2G and it works fine i used QuickPwn to Unlock/Jailbreak mine to t-mobile also it's a cracked app i have so am going to buy it cos its a good game hope the update as more than 3 players (they all women) you should get its a very good game hope that helps you :)
Posted by: Aaron | November 23, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Thanx Aaron for ur message but as far as i know quickpwn does not manipulate the firmware for ur iphone whereas pwnge does since we r custom building our own firmware from official firmware released by apple in pwnge . Addition to that i have iphone 3g and i used pwnge instead of quickpwn bcoz i want to unlock my phone whenever dev team release their must waited softunlock for 3g iphone. I just dont want to waste my $5 buying this game if it won't work as they mention about it in their description page.
Posted by: amit | November 23, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Good info. Thanks for the heads up.
Posted by: Stop Smoking | November 24, 2008 at 12:17 AM
amit
ok cool the G/F as a 3G so i will put it on hers and let you know how it go's i also did that with QuickPwn. you should try the cracked version first see how it gose just see what you think better to do that than waist your money i know it's wrong but i always text cracked app's befor i buy dont wanna wait money on crap i had some app's that looked good but where crap when i tryed them i want my money to go to the ppl who make good app's so they can make them better thats my way of thinking any way
Posted by: Aaron | November 24, 2008 at 02:05 AM