[Kernel]netarchy-toastmod, Version 4.1.9.1 Beta: 4.2

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Originally Posted by parousia15

I'm running this over SprintLover's ROM. No issues.

I'm just curious, the FPS is different for different tests
I know 2D is simpler. I get about 53 fps on that
On Gears I get about 44-45.
But on Quandrant and Neocore I still get under 30 FPS.

I guess 3D is harder to hack/fix or is that due to the limited GPU? (as compared to hummingbird processor)

Anyway, I absolutely love this. My phone runs so smoothly now.

Neocore you should expect around 27 on any snapdragon (even the nexus one benches about 27 in neocore). The neocore score is very much due to limitations of the gpu. In this particular case, the bottleneck for the gpu in neocore is fill rate.

Both quadrant and neocore are made to stress hardware to its limits. They are not necessarily indicative of performance in everything. As an example, neocore may bench at about 27, but I guarantee you if you were to fire up raging thunder 2, you'd find it runs smooth as butter.

As for gears, you should be able to get in the 50's, but it depends largely on the scaling parameters for your cpu.
Benchmarks are highly sensitive to the speed of the cpu, how quickly the cpu governor scales the cpu speed from idle to full in response to load.
For instance, if you were to install setcpu, and set the governor to performance (essentially forcing the cpu to run at full speed all the time) you would find that your benchmarks are consistently higher.

The defaults in the kernel aim for good performance out of the box, but it is worth noting that any default settings can be overridden.

Some custom roms override the defaults by setting the cpu threshold (aka the % of load the cpu experiences before the governor starts increasing the speed of the cpu to deal with the load). It's also worth pointing out that apps like setcpu and overclock widget can also override the defaults, for better or worse (depending on your settings).

The default threshold in my kernel builds is 70%, meaning that once something is throwing a 70% load to the cpu at its current speed, it starts speeding up to deal with the load.

Setting a higher threshold results in better battery life, but progressively lower performance in trade.