When a major update comes out for an operating system that affects a number of devices you own, it can be beneficial to add a round of benchmarking to the routine task of updating. This way you can check and see if things are performing at the level they should be. Especially when an update like iOS 7.1 comes along and targets one or more devices by claiming to contain enhancements that will increase performance as this one does for the iPhone 4.

The following will go over some of the established benchmarking apps available to iOS devices, where to go online to compare your results and some general recommendations as what you can do if your device is not performing at the level it should be:

Real-world scenario vs. ideal situations

Ideally when running a benchmark the goal is to establish the optimum score possible by configuring…