People love to quote numbers that make them feel better about themselves and the $600 smartphone they picked after doing exhaustive amounts of research. If you platform isn’t the most pretty, think Symbian, then quote overall market share when dismissing the competition. If your platform is exclusive, think iOS, then quote how many applications are available for it and ignore the variety of form factors being brought to market by other vendors. The same can be said for the BlackBerry and the others. But even within a certain sect you need to prove your e-penis is larger than that of your neighbor, so benchmark applications were written. Whenever we mention an Android device here at IntoMobile we try to include the Quadrant score. It provides a good baseline when comparing different devices. Late month we saw GLBenchmark 2.0 hit the market and it declared that Samsung’s Hummingbird processor was the fastest kid in town. Now we’ve got a new application to talk about.
Enter BaseMark. It uses a graphics engine that was written in ANSI-C of all languages, and Anandtech has installed it on a variety of devices (T-Mobile myTouch 4G, T-Mobile G2, Samsung Nexus S, Epic 4G, Galaxy Tab, LG Optimus One, Nexus One, Dell Streak, HTC Evo 4G) to find out which is the fastest. The results are … well, depending on the test there’s a different winner. What we do know is that Qualcomm’s Adreno 205 graphics processor is more than powerful enough to keep up with the PoverVR SGX 540 that’s found inside the Samsung Hummingbird and Apple A4.
What does this mean for you? Not much, it’s just another chart. If you liked your phone before you read this article then you’ll like it after you’ve clicked away. Note that results from the Tegra 2 have yet to be published because devices rocking that chip crashed during testing, which begs the question: is Android optimized for dual core use?