Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackDynamite
And I will finish off by saying that I don't think any of those bench tests are valid. You yourself admitted that none of them are perfect, so they are all flawed in your opinion too. But I will say this- linpack is the most valid one of the bunch in my opinion, and it gave the better score to the Sensation. You can choose to say you prefer smartbench, but I don;t care. It doesn't mean I have to prefer it just because you do. Like I said, at least linpack is running at the native resolution on each device.
Now, back to your fantasy world.
|
Linpack isn't running on any resolution...it only tests floating point...this is equivalent to Quadran'ts CPU score and GL benchmark's "CPU Performance: Float" benchmark...
aka its a benchmark that only measures 1 thing, the CPU and only in Float. And the score difference was 1%.
You can prefer it if you wish, but the benchmark fails to test the 2d and 3d GPU, CPU Int, I/O and memory.
BTW here is an official statement from the creator of linpack for android:
Quote:
|
This test is more a reflection of the state of the Android Dalvik Virtual Machine than of the floating point performance of the underlying processor. Software written for an Android device is written using Java code that the Dalvik VM interprets at run time.
|
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
Hence why I said Linpack only works for benching the same phone...so the author themselves said its not a good benchmark for cpu processors..now what?
There is no perfect benchmark yes, but Smartbench at the very least accounts for an overall performance of the device and is optimized to account for resolutions and dual cores.