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So how does Adreno 220 perform? And how does Qualcomm's first dual-core perform on the CPU intensive tasks?
Have a look at the following chart, taken directly from the Smartbench 2011 app:
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Here are the scores taken directly from the chart:
Productivity Index score: 1743
Games Index score: 1642
Not impressed? We are in agreement.
As a comparison, have a look at the following charts:
Clearly, both the Productivity score and Games scores are bafflingly low.
Lets look at the Productivity score first. Given that MSM8260 is a dual-core device, I was expecting more than twice the performance of HTC Desire HD, which is a single core device, clocked at a lower frequency. But the score shows that the dual-core 1.2GHz MSM8260 is only 70% faster than the single-core 1GHz MSM8255.
Now lets look at the Games score. This time, Adreno 220 in MSM8260 only performs about 30% faster than Adreno 205 in MSM8255. This is a bit disappointing given that Adreno 220 is supposed to perform twice as fast.
So what's happened here? Is HTC Pyramid still a work-in-progress? Lets hope HTC can improve the performance of the Pyramid before it makes it to the market.
Conclusion:
The results for HTC Pyramid is a bit disappointing. Given that it is clocked at 1.2GHz, it should overcome its slight deficiency over ARM's Cortex A9 design so the CPU scores should have been similar. As for the GPU performance, no one really knows how well Adreno 220 was supposed to perform and so far, it doesn't look all that impressive.
Perhaps the unit is still an early prototype that requires further tuning.
Also check out benchmark numbers for LG Optimus 3D - the first phone to use TI's new dual-core OMAP 4430!
