Apple Thoughts: New Touch Pushes the Most Polygons

"We already knew that the latest iPod touch featured the fastest processing of its siblings (a 532MHz-clocked processor vs 412MHz on the original iPhone, the original iPod touch and even the new iPhone 3G). But we were surprised to hear from software developers that the latest iPod touch can render character models with nearly double the polygons of the original iPhone, a trend that's impacting game development now and probably more so moving forward."

So much for expecting the same performance on identical hardware. Now the true question is going to be finding out exactly what it is that accounts for such a difference in performance between the new Touch and the older one. This should be very interesting and we'll probably end up learning a lot about the hardware differences between the two.