New iPad (aka iPad 3) benchmarked

Vietnamese website Tinhte.vu have their hands on a new iPad (aka iPad 3) and have put it trough its paces using the Geekbench benchmarking tool.

The results of this benchmark give the new iPad a score of 756, which is a little over the 720 that the iPad 2 scores, and quite a bit faster than the 620 or so scored by the iPhone 4S.

Also confirmed is a 1GHz processor (same clock speed as the iPad 2), and a RAM upgrade to 1GB (up from 512MB that was present in the iPad 2).

Image credit: Tinhte.vu

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