Despite having the same 512MB of RAM as of the iPhone 4, GeekBench has benchmarked the iPhone 4S and it turns out that Apple’s new handset is 68 percent faster than the current iPhone 4.

GeekBench gives a total score to the iPhone4S of 622, which is a bit lower than the iPad 2 score of 746 (using the same A5 processor), but it’s a lot higher than the 370 that the iPhone 4 got benchmarked.

The lower-than-iPad 2 performance is probably because the iPhone 4S A5 processor is possibly underlocked to 800MHz, compared to the iPad 2 1GHz.