Top 10 phones for 3D performance
By Ben Robinson on Saturday, February 16th, 2008 at 10:08 AM PST In Devices, Gaming, Hardware, Motorola, N-Gage, NSeries, Nokia
Pocketgamer has been busy, working out which handsets on the market have the best 3D performance - of course, this is a somewhat subjective measure, because as anyone familiar with benchmarking knows, if you give a processor a task it excels at compared with others, it is bound to win! Anyhoo, the test in question here is “OpenGL ES 1.0 processing” - which is one of the industry graphics standards.
The results come from Hungarian company Kishonti, which specialises in measuring the performance of mobile devices. It uses it’s GLBenchmark to run the graphics on the handset, and generate a rating. And to re-iterate, this is a specific 3D test - so it doesn’t follow these are the best devices for 3D gaming, or other tasks - nonetheless, the results are interesting!
The full list is below, but in short, Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s NSeries is all over the results - withe the N93 coming out surprisingly as the winner (!). Also in there are some Dell PDAs (a bit unfair methinks since they are quite a bit larger, and not phones!), but also the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Z8. Actually I am not surprised the Z8 is there, given the hardware they managed to stuff in to it - it really dpes deserve the moniker given to it of “Media Monster”
1. Nokia N93 (442 frames)
2. Nokia N93i (433 frames)
3. Nokia N95 (413 frames)
4. Dell Axim X51v (412 frames)
5. Nokia N95 8GB (395 frames)
6. Nokia N82 (392 frames)
7. Dell Axim X50v (390 frames)
8. Motorola RIZR Z8 (389 frames)
9. Nokia E90 (386 frames)
=10. SonyEricsson W950i (171 frames)
=10. SonyEricsson M600i (171 frames)
=10. SonyEricsson P990i (171 frames)
=10. SonyEricsson P1i (171 frames)
How does this all relate to gaming? Does it all? Well kinda, but as we know from the days of Nintendo and the SNES, well-written games that take advantage of specialist hardware (with albeit very slow CPUs) will still be excellent. Wow, the SNES, now there’s a blast from the past!!
[Via: Pocketgamer.co.uk]
Is the 3rd spot given to the original or “upgraded” N95?
The N93 is a great device. It is probably one of the last truly great Nseries phones, as it is built like a tank and is probably one of the most stable handsets out of the box. Nokia should just take today’s tech and throw it in an N93 package.
Anyway, I am very shocked to see the N95 8GB number 5 on the list…why the step back Nokia?
I believe it’s due to bigger screen resolution?
N93 may well have been a great device but its a ridiculously large brick of a phone.
There is a common thread for the N9x phones - all run OMAP2 series processors. Didnt anyone test phones with Qualcomm processors?
I love my N93 , it’s a real cool and good moviemaker phone
I’m long tired of my N93. The camera’s too awkward, having to unfold it and all that and when I accidentally flip it and I have to wait for the camera to load up just so I can close it again since it doesn’t do it automatically. And it’s far too big and my optical zoom stopped working.
Not to mention how slow the interface is. Can’t wait for the N78 now.
Phones doesn’t ready for real 3D.
i thought this phone was truly awful i mean its a brick i couldnt fit it in my bag …i would strongly say DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE
its reli bad do not buy this phone
@guys above: What phone do you have.
@the researchers: Come on people. I will buy an N95 8GB in a few days and you say me that it’s not number one?