Samsung Hummingbird declared fastest chip by GLBenchmark 2.0

Benchmarking is an interesting sport, and yes I use the term sport, because people spend far too much time crunching numbers that absolutely don’t matter in order to prove something that’s relevant to less than 1% of the population. Take this from a guy who used to scour junk yards for radiators to optimize a water cooling system for a computer that had a solder modified motherboard so extra voltage could be driven to the processor and memory. The latest benchmark suite to be released for smartphones, GLBenchmark 2.0, is an update to the popular yet aged 1.0 version. The new version is used to test OpenGL ES 2.0 performance and is compatible with iOS, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Maemo. Technology site Anandtech took the time to benchmark the Google Nexus One, LG Optimus One, T-Mobile myTouch 4G, Samsung Fascinate, Google Nexus S, HTC EVO 4G, Apple iPhone 4, Apple iPad, Motorola Droid, T-Mobile G2, Nokia N8, and Apple iPhone 3GS in order to find out who has the fastest hardware of the land.

The winner? Samsung made smartphones utilizing the Hummingbird processor, which is nothing more than a 1 GHZ ARM Cortex A8 chip and PowerVR SGX 540 GPU, absolutely trample everything else. The chart above clearly demonstrates that. Another keen observation is that the Qualcomm made Adreno 205 graphics processor is nearly as fast as the PowerVR SGX 540 and multiple times faster than the previous generation Adreno 200 GPU that was first introduced in devices such as the Nexus One.

Next year we’re going to see not only dual core ARM Cortex A9 processors come out in mobile phones, mainly in the second half of 2011, but 2011 none the less, we’re also going to see next generations graphics hardware that’s upwards of 5x faster than what’s currently on the market. Samsung has said that the GPU in their Orion dual core processor is 5x faster than the one bundled with Hummingbird. Qualcomm has said that their Adreno 220 is 4x to 5x faster than the Adreno 205. We’re just wondering what type of user interfaces will be created using all that pixel pushing power.

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

http://www.youtube.com/emogamer Christopher Chavez

There’s something definitely wrong with this chart. I’ve played games on my Evo and 3D games would chug.

I mean, I’m no Apple fanboy but its nothing like the iPhone 4 (which has a GREAT GPU and consistently moves stuff at a blistering 60fps). This can’t be right at all…..?
http://www.youtube.com/emogamer Christopher Chavez

There’s something definitely wrong with this chart. I’ve played games on my Evo and 3D games would chug.

I mean, I’m no Apple fanboy but its nothing like the iPhone 4 (which has a GREAT GPU and consistently moves stuff at a blistering 60fps). This can’t be right at all…..?
http://www.youtube.com/emogamer Christopher Chavez

There’s something definitely wrong with this chart. I’ve played games on my Evo and 3D games would chug.

I mean, I’m no Apple fanboy but its nothing like the iPhone 4 (which has a GREAT GPU and consistently moves stuff at a blistering 60fps). This can’t be right at all…..?
- http://www.intomobile.com/ Stefan Constantinescu
  
  we didn’t run the benchmarks, so you’d have to ask Anand. this is a general purpose test too.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=729545965 James Osborne

iPhone 3GS is faster than the iPhone 4, and the iPad sits propping the rest up. I’d say this was telling FAR from the complete story.

FWIW I suspect the Qualcomm in my Desire HD would be up at the top!
- http://twitter.com/chaoscentral John Pisano
  
  the Qualcomm in the Desire HD is the same one in the myTouch 4G
- http://twitter.com/chaoscentral John Pisano
  
  the Qualcomm in the Desire HD is the same one in the myTouch 4G
- Ante
  
  Guys its fairly simple..FPS is based on the resolution…this is why the Optimus One did so well on the tests, because it has a GPU of the EVO while filling in a smaller resolution..The iphone 4 has a larger resolution then the rest, thus it would be expected to have lower scores then if it were to be running same resolution as the other phones…
  
  This is also why the 3gs scored so high, because of it having smaller resolution then the other Android phones…
  
  If iphone 4 were to run at same resolution as the android phones it would probaby be around 9-11 score..
  
  Either way Hummingbird is obviously king here
- Ante
  
  Guys its fairly simple..FPS is based on the resolution…this is why the Optimus One did so well on the tests, because it has a GPU of the EVO while filling in a smaller resolution..The iphone 4 has a larger resolution then the rest, thus it would be expected to have lower scores then if it were to be running same resolution as the other phones…
  
  This is also why the 3gs scored so high, because of it having smaller resolution then the other Android phones…
  
  If iphone 4 were to run at same resolution as the android phones it would probaby be around 9-11 score..
  
  Either way Hummingbird is obviously king here