The HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S are pretty evenly matched on paper – both have 1 GHz processors, run Android 2.1, WVGA touchscreens of similar size (3.7″ versus 4″), and about the same memory (576 MB versus 512 MB). One would argue that if you were to run a Quake 2 demo on both phones, the performance would be in the same ballpark. Hope you didn’t make a bet on that assumption, because you’d be a little bit poorer right now. Here’s how the comparison goes.
As you can see, the Samsung Galaxy S soundly smokes the HTC Desire’s performance. The reason? Samsung is using a Hummingbird processor, which (as we’ve seen) is built for handling graphics. That’s not to say the Snapdragon in the HTC Desire is a slouch, but it’s obviously outclassed as far as 3D gaming is concerned.
[via Android Central]