yeah you have to have root access just to use chainfire's workarounds lol...
which shows that the mali has problems that game devs cannot always work around.
both chipsets have pros and cons, at the end of the day we're talking about 4.5" and smaller phones. IMO both adreno and mali are overkill, if I want a game with sick graphics and real gaming I'll power up a PC or gaming console on an HDTV, this whole idea of making a phone as powerful as a 6-core i7 is pretty ludicrous to me.
Here's a concept when comparing the SGS2 vs 3D/Sensation, you can't go wrong! Do you want Sense or not? That's really the only practical variable.
Everything else is just pointless ranting about this bench or that spec, which I guess is the nature of our site