New iPhone is five degrees warmer than iPad 2

The new iPhone is in heavy use warmer than the iPhone 2. The difference in temperature between the new Apple tablet and its predecessor is approximately 5 ° C. Users of the tablet already noticed that he was hotter than the iPad 2.

Thermal Images Tweakers.net with an infrared camera made confirm the higher temperature. A new iPad was placed next to an iPad 2, both tablets were entrusted with the GLBenchmark. After five minutes, per tablet, the temperature of the hottest point is measured. On the left is the new iPad. Noted that the lower right corner at the rear a temperature of 33.6 ° C. The iPad 2 scored in the same place a temperature of 28.3 ° C, a difference of 5.3 ° C.

The measurements of Tweakers.net confirm the reports of owners of the new Apple tablet. In various fora messages posted that especially the location of the processor is a hot spot forms. At 33.6 degrees Celsius, the iPhone is not too hot to touch, although the warmer housing is very noticeable. Apple itself reports that the tablet can be used at an ambient temperature between 0 and 35 ° C. If the tablet is likely to be too hot, it switches itself off.

That the tablet gets warmer, is probably due to the GPU. The graphics processor is the same as in the iPad 2 is, but it has more shader cores. The A5 processor from the iPad 2 has a PowerVR GPU SGX543MP2, while the new iPad has SGX543MP4.

The new Apple tablet since Friday is sold in several countries, including Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Apple brings the new iPhone Friday in the Netherlands. The main improvement is the screen according to Apple, which contains four times as many pixels as the iPhone 2.

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