HTC Desire HD benchmarks beat Froyo N1, ROM ported to HD2

We’ve barely had time to recover from the HTC Desire HD unveiling in London and we’re already seeing the new Android superphone being benchmarked and its Android 2.2 Froyo ROM dumped online. Going on reported Quadrant benchmark scores, the DHD basically blows a Nexus One running Android 2.2 out of the water. And, in even better news for the Android development community, the Desire HD ROM has already been dumped online, allowing some developers to port it to the Windows Mobile-powered HTC HD2. It seems it’s only a matter of time before HD2 users can safely flash the DHD ROM, complete with Android 2.2 Froyo and the new HTC Sense UI.

So, what makes the new Desire HD so fast? Well, as we noted in our hands-on and initial impressions post, the DHD runs the next-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8255 silicon. Thanks to a larger cache and a new GPU that works in concert with the speed optimizations in Froyo, the DHD is faster than any other (non-overclocked) Android smartphone we’ve ever played with. The benchmarks confirm our own experience with the handset, which show the Desire HD making a Froyo N1 (which considered one of the fastest Android phones available) look like yesterday’s news – the DHD scored almost 2,000 on the Quadrant benchmark. Now that’s impressive.

And, for all you out there in smartphone-land using an HTC HD2 addled with Windows Mobile, you may not have to wait long to get a taste of Froyo and the new Sense UI on your handset. Seeing as how the DHD and the HD2 share many similar specs – like the 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen – the HD2 is a perfect candidate for porting the DHD ROM. And, over at XDA-Developers, there are already rumblings of this ROM already up and running on an HD2. We’d love to show you the video of the port in action, but it has since gone private and is not viewable at the moment.

Stay tuned for more updates!

[Via: Engadget and XDA]

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lloyd

My vibrant with ryanza lag fix a the market blows this out if the water. I get quadrant from 2000 to 2300.. And my phone hasnt even gotten froyo yet! Many vibrants are leaps ahead of this.
bl4ckdr4g00n

htc dhd got only 2000 with Froyo…
Haven’t you guy heard about Samsung Galaxy S “lag fix”? – it scores 2500 quadrant with only Eclair.

what a joke for the “fastest Android phone” title you gave desire hd =))
http://www.ithinkdiff.com Imran Hussain

Agree with lloyd. My Galaxy S scores 2100 on Quadrant and that’s on Eclair.
Beats the shit out of the Desire HD Froyo ROM.
AndroidMaster

Did all you Galaxy S guys not read the article?? It said the fastest non overclocked Android phone. Granted the Lag fix isn’t an overclocking but it IS a modification. Can you imagine when this Desire HD comes out and gets the XDA guys going? I could never have imagined that it would have taken 9+ months before a phone was released that would even make me consider leaving my Nexus One. Samsung came close but that horrid Touch Wiz ui was a deal killer for me. I’m not a big fan of Sense but I can deal with it seeing as I ran the original Desire rom on my N1 for a little while before I went back to tried and true vanilla.
http://www.redevgroup.com/ Investment Property Canada

wow, nice phone. If you’re a techy person, you should have like this one, one of my friend called it “android phone”.
Very nice phone.
YOUCANNOTDENY

“Seeing as how the DHD and the HD2 share many similar specs – like the 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen – the HD2 is a perfect candidate for porting the DHD ROM.” Screen size has nothing to do with it. Also, there are a hundred other Android phones which are almost identical to the HD2, so time will tell.
http://www.hghreviews.org/ Bob

It’s always good to know someone who has bought the product for their opinion.
http://www.idcredit.org/ Piter

He must be happy because from my testing i can assure HTC DEsire is really desirable
http://www.porntested.com/ Serra

For the current era is full of competition, the need to rush life, it is something that great right? If four Su substances tools to meet today what they have. That would be a good answer for HTC.
RogerC

I owned the Galaxy S but returned it. Having to use a lag fix after you buy it is pathetic. The thing lagged as hell. Slow, slow slow on stock. No lag fix is a fully acceptable or perfect solution.

Not to mention the totally useless GPS.
- jroc
  
  Like I said, some ppl can see the lag fix as a con for the Samsung phones….and I agree..
anony

My N1/2.2 @ 1.1GHz scores between 1600 and 1750. Not bad at all for a 9 month old device
PinkMirrorKirby

My Samsung Galaxy S running Android 2.1 have like 2089, which is higher than HTC Desire HD’s Android 2.2. :O