New benchmark tool, > Quadrant; Smartbench 2010. - Epic 4G General

A while back I posted about how I managed to get a ridiculous score of 2597 on Quadrant using Dameon87 and noobnl's ramdrive hack, and achieved the highest (and it's still standing) stock clock Quadrant score on SmartphoneBenchmarks.com.
After I posted the score, I complained about it on SmartphoneBenchmark's forums, and was informed by an admin that they were aware of the skewed scores in Quadrant and working on a benchmark tool of their own.
Well that tool was released and today I gave it a spin. Its called Smartbench 2010 and is currently free on the Android Market. It runs a series of tests and splits the results into a Productivity Index (CPU) and a Games Index (GPU). The Epic performs VERY well on this benchmark; I scored 1178 and 2610 in Productivity and Games respectfully, while the HTC G2 scores 1045 and 1396.
But here's the real test; we all know that phones with the RFS file system perform very poorly on Quadrant... the benchmark doesn't get along with the file system well and the result is bad scores. I had a couple guys in the freenode #samsung-epic IRC chat run scores, and DRockstar with RFS got 1133 and 2521. It looks like this benchmark actually scores I/O on RFS accurately!
However, I'm still skeptical, and I'd like to see some more scores first. So download it, run some benchmarks, and post back here with your results.
Be sure to post what ROM you're running and if you're on EXT4 or RFS. Don't forget to kill your background apps before testing, I forgot to and got a pretty bad score the first time.
I'd recommend running the benchmark at least twice to be sure your phone is running at its best.
Me: Quantum ROM 2.7, EXT4
Productivity Index: 1178
Games Index: 2610
EDIT - I'd also like to give a shout out to a couple other benchmark apps that I think are pretty good. GLBenchmark (not on market, has to be downloaded from their website and installed) and 0xbench, which the guys in IRC introduced me to, a very comprehensive benchmark tool.
EDIT2 - I also would like to make it clear that I don't condone the use of any benchmark score as "proof" of any piece of hardware or ROM as being better than any other. Every phone is different and will perform slightly differently depending upon dozens of different reasons. In addition, ALL benchmark tools are susceptible to error and manipulation, particularly when you consider that our OS is running on top of a VM over the hardware and thus the hardware is not being natively tested by the benchmark tool (AFAIK). Lastly, what a benchmark cannot test is your own experience with the phone or ROM, how well it "feels" to perform for you, how much you enjoy using it, etc. Employ common sense when citing benchmarks!
UPDATE - 1/13 - An update is available for the application with more devices in the scores comparison list.

Bonsai 1.1.3 , EXT4 , No-Journal mod
Prod. Index: 947
Games Index: 2207

Stock DI18 Rom unrooted. Why is my game index so high?

tphillips78 said:
Stock DI18 Rom unrooted. Why is my game index so high?
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Because our GPU is currently the best available in current smartphones.
Thanks for posting a stock score BTW, I was really hoping to see one.

EXT4 Quantum Rom
1178 Productivity
2715 Games
Ran it again:
1182 Productivity
2719 Games
And again:
1190 Productivity
2736 Games

Electrofreak said:
Because our GPU is currently the best available in current smartphones.
Thanks for posting a stock score BTW, I was really hoping to see one.
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That's what I thought I just needed someone else to say it so I could believe it more lol. Thanks

1001 and 2304
Running supernova 1.04 dk28
Rfs filesystem
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My Epic running Bonsai 1.1.3 ext4
1139 productivity
2689 gaming
My wife's Epic stock di18
700 productivity
2297 gaming
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tphillips78 said:
That's what I thought I just needed someone else to say it so I could believe it more lol. Thanks
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No probs, if you're interested in hardware, I wrote an article last April that goes into some detail about the Galaxy S hardware and compares to other modern smartphone hardware. The article is getting a little old but most of it is still relevant: http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=17125

1053 and 2484 using ext4 running Midnight 2.7

Electrofreak said:
No probs, if you're interested in hardware, I wrote an article last April that goes into some detail about the Galaxy S hardware and compares to other modern smartphone hardware. The article is getting a little old but most of it is still relevant: http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=17125
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I am definitely going to check that out thank you.

ROM: quantium 2.7 ext4
productivity 742
games index 2505
I ran the test again after i cleared all running apps "no reboot"
productivity 1130
games index 2631
That just shows how much the phone boggs down after a day of normal usage.

737 productivity
2698 games
Devoid Angel ROM
Ran again
755 p
2732 g

Runnin CM6 with ext4 and got...
Productivity - 1151
Games - 2643
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Midnight Rom 2.4 ext4
Productivity :1081
Game :2383

My scores
ROM: quantium 2.7 ext4
productivity 1193
games index 2692
This is a full day booted phone just held down home and cleared all apps then ran Smartbench

Another stock DI18 not rooted.
First run....
Productivity Index: 714
Games Index: 2468
Second run....
Productivity Index: 719
Games Index: 2403

Stock DI18 not rooted 736 and 2585.

Second run, without killing any background apps:
Productivity - 1195
Games - 2694
Running Nebula ROM 1.0.6 (Twin Jets) with EXT4.
Interestingly, successive tests gave lower and lower scores.

1132 and 2750. On bonsai with no journal mod
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Post your official Froyo /Gingerbread bechmarks here (without lagfix)

post your official froyo / Gingerbread bechmarks here (without lagfix)
if you got upgrade via kies
Got jp6 trough norwegian kies
1020 is highest before lagfix
2015 is highest after oclf lagfix
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as I've noticed before, without lagfix on 2.1 the I/O check takes ages
but as compare,
2.1 without lagfix around 850
2.2 without lagfix around 1000
2.1 with lagfix around 2200
2.2 with lag fix, not tested yet, need to find a root
AsgardCurse said:
as I've noticed before, without lagfix on 2.1 the I/O check takes ages
but as compare,
2.1 without lagfix around 850
2.2 without lagfix around 1000
2.1 with lagfix around 2200
2.2 with lag fix, not tested yet, need to find a root
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here is a root for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788108
OCLF only boost IO on Galaxy s : nexus 1 is still way faster in processor optimization test and this is what we need in galaxy s
dadyal said:
OCLF only boost IO on Galaxy s : nexus 1 is still way faster in processor optimization test and this is what we need in galaxy s
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Faster in real world performance or in synthetic benchmarks?
DarthV said:
Faster in real world performance or in synthetic benchmarks?
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I guess for using FPU intensive task, like Mathematical design, database, encoding video or MP3, file sharing and sugh... :|
For me, I use the phone for mostly GPU intense task, such as taking pictures/video, listening to video, gaming, browsing pictures, etc. so I asume that better gpu makes it better all around eh!
Kinda like being able to lift heavy wieght but doing a desk job I assume!
(BTW, sorry for the sarcasm )
2.2 without lagfix 1001
2.1
before: 854
after: 2273
Sorry guy for a stupid question but which app are you using for the benchmark test?
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Quadrant Standard banchmark - U can find it in market
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Thx for the app info! I got 1010
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t1mman said:
I guess for using FPU intensive task, like Mathematical design, database, encoding video or MP3, file sharing and sugh... :|
For me, I use the phone for mostly GPU intense task, such as taking pictures/video, listening to video, gaming, browsing pictures, etc. so I asume that better gpu makes it better all around eh!
Kinda like being able to lift heavy wieght but doing a desk job I assume!
(BTW, sorry for the sarcasm )
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So wouldn't benchmarks for your specific application be better than synthetic benchmarks suck as linpack and quadrant? The snapdragon CPU in the n1 is very very friendly with linpack (NEON + 128bit SIMD). I doubt that the hummingbird in our SGSs will ever score as high, but that doesn't mean that real performance is going to be worse. And well quadrant is pretty much a joke or at least how it weights cpu/gpu/io.
Maybe someone group will get a bunch of phones together and test things like gaming speed, web render times etc etc. That would be meaningful.
DarthV said:
So wouldn't benchmarks for your specific application be better than synthetic benchmarks suck as linpack and quadrant? The snapdragon CPU in the n1 is very very friendly with linpack (NEON + 128bit SIMD). I doubt that the hummingbird in our SGSs will ever score as high, but that doesn't mean that real performance is going to be worse. And well quadrant is pretty much a joke or at least how it weights cpu/gpu/io.
Maybe someone group will get a bunch of phones together and test things like gaming speed, web render times etc etc. That would be meaningful.
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you mean VFP? the Hummingbird is the one with the ARM Neon chip...
VFP is pretty much a floating point accelerator which is why benchmarks are so high on linpack which calculates floating points.
my score is 1034, was over 2000 before Froyo update
Lostja said:
my score is 1034, was over 2000 before Froyo update
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you got this update via kies ?
i flashed JPA and it go 970 - 1050
960 without
How to do the OCLF? It says "Unavailable" on everything...
Edit: got it fixed
1819 with
If everything shows unavailable check the following:
Phone is Rooted,
Ext2 tools installed,
BATTERY MUST BE MORE THAN 40%
last one is the one that most people dont check
Score was around 1008 with standard Froyo. (Kies update)
With root and lagfix i get around 1873.
With official Enclair and lagfix i could easily get 2200+ points.
970. not the best!
frankatboy said:
If everything shows unavailable check the following:
Phone is Rooted,
Ext2 tools installed,
BATTERY MUST BE MORE THAN 40%
last one is the one that most people dont check
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Battery is more than 40%.
How do I root and install Ext2? (stupid question I know but I am new lol). I see it can root and install ext2 as well, but those are unavailable too.
Edit: *fixed* 1819 with lagfix

[Q] No JIT in DK28

So DK28 is supposedly 2.2.1 but I ran Quandrat with the stock rom and it comes up 873, almost exactly the same as Galaxy S 2.1, leading me to believe that JIT is not in the rom. Correct?
avenger213 said:
So DK28 is supposedly 2.2.1 but I ran Quandrat with the stock rom and it comes up 873, almost exactly the same as Galaxy S 2.1, leading me to believe that JIT is not in the rom. Correct?
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I may be wrong but quadrant:
1) Isn't the best way to base performance
2) Doesn't really show improvements that JIT provides
Download linpack if you want and your score should be around a 14 or so, compared to the 8.5-9 on 2.1
Quadrant isn't a real life benchmark, and is highly flawed. Check out Quantum's "warp speed edition" ROM for proof.
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I got 1205 with stock dk28 but I have noticed others reporting lower scores. Variability in testing with a bad benchmark perhaps?
I've got 1839 lol... For some reason I doubt that's accurate
I did a quadrant test with a stock epic 2.1 and an epic on dk28 and the scores were pretty much the same every time. The major difference was that the Froyo epic ran the cpu benchmarks much faster but hung during the first I/O test. The 2.1 epic ran everything about the same speed and completed the whole test much faster than the froyo epic.
I also noticed this and posted in another thread...
to quote myself
I was getting around 8.3xx in 2.1, and now I'm getting 13.7xx in 2.2.
(I used the 1506bdf2e04b.update-SPH-D700_DI18ToDK28.zip renamed to update.zip method.)
Saw a video the other day showing a nexus 1 scoring 20+ on 1st run and 40+ on 2nd.. My friends Evo (with 2.2) scored @ 38 or so..
Quadrant still shows me well under all of the 2.2+ phones listed.
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I expected a bit more of an increase..
I too am wondering if the JIT was left out of our Froyo (if that's even possible, I'm still a total nube to andriod stuff).
What exactly is JIT, does it speed the phone up?
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Just In Time compiling...
From what I know about .Net (I'm a C# coder), it allows for compilation of the app for the specific CPU during the 1st run.
Someone please correct me if this differes from andriod's JIT...
the epic has fast computation hw between the cpu and gpu, it could be the case that the JIT benefit doesn't show in the benchmark margins.
the device is a fast one, all compared.

Benchmark mystery...

Hey folks, I'm Electrofreak from over at the Epic 4G forums. I'm one of our hardware nuts over there (no, really, I'm not kidding) and I'm trying to solve a little mystery.
As many of you may know, the Quadrant benchmark heavily favors Snapdragon CPUs and also badly skews I/O scores on Samsung's RFS file system. In short, it gives Galaxy S phones a bad score despite their cutting-edge performance.
Since I'm always blathering on about hardware, a friend of mine at work asked me to recommend him an Android replacement for his WinMo phone on Verizon. I explained that the Samsung hardware outperforms what the Droids currently offer (excepting the CPU in the Droid 2 Global) even if software updates have been few and far between.
So he went and bought a Fascinate, and since I've recently been advocating testing a new benchmark application, Smartbench 2010 on the Epic 4G, I had him download and benchmark his stock Fascinate.
The result was pretty dismal; where a stock Epic 4G on Eclair gets a Productivity Index (CPU) score of about 700 and a Gaming Index (GPU) score of about 2400, he was getting like 300 and 500... at most. The I/O test was taking forever, so we rebooted the phone, cleared running apps, and ran the benchmark a couple more times, with the result being the same each time. The CPU and GPU portions of the test actually seemed to complete fairly quickly however, and there wasn't any real appreciative difference in overall performance between our phones when slinging through application menus or using the phone in general. (And damn, while I like having my Epic's keyboard, the Fascinate is so freakin' thin!)
Now, on the Epic 4G forums, we've tested this benchmark app on RFS and EXT4 file systems and the difference has been minimal (usually slightly in favor of EXT4). So I'm pretty sure it's not the RFS file system to blame unless there's something wrong.
Anyone else willing to download Smartbench 2010 from the Android Market (it's free, and designed by the folks at SmartphoneBenchmarks.com) and give it a shot on your Fascinate? I need to find out if it's the app or the phone that's to blame.
In advance, many thanks!
I just ran it and I got this on my fascinate
Productivity Index (CPU) score of about 655 and a Gaming Index (GPU) score of about 2105
Facinate running JT's latest voodoo kernel, mashed together ROM and DJ05.
Results:
Failed at i/o
Edit: Finished this time at Productivity Index of 647 and Gaming Index of 2488
Quadrant score of 1658
Hope that helps,
Sean
Alright I'm running the DL09 Modem and Rom with UL Test 5 1.3 GHz Voodoo Kernal.
Productivity: 963
Games: 3257
Quadrant: 1953
Running a test kernel with voodoo I built from JT's source I got a Productivity score of 746 and a Gaming score of 2576. Quadrant is usually somewhere around 1700-1800.
I ran it a few times on mine (rooted but otherwise stock):
PI GI
649 2072
595 1692
I rebooted and ran again and things got worse but consistent:
PI GI
200 415
202 423
207 432
206 433
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738 and 2531
Running stock dj05 rom and jt's voodoo 5
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Awesome, thanks for the scores guys! I'm guessing rqdxrocket's score was stock? It's looking more and more like something is wrong with my friend's NAND chip on his Fascinate. (See EDIT.) Maybe we'll drop a custom ROM on it and see how it fares. I'll also run some catlogs to see if it's got bad blocks.
Worst case scenario we'll flash it back to stock and bring it in for replacement. My friend is having a rough time of it; got his Fascinate and then right after someone changed lanes into him and screwed up his car. Now on top of that to have a high-end smartphone producing scores that would make an HTC Hero hang its head in shame has gotta be tough to bear.
EDIT -
deadcaper said:
I ran it a few times on mine (rooted but otherwise stock):
PI GI
649 2072
595 1692
I rebooted and ran again and things got worse but consistent:
PI GI
200 415
202 423
207 432
206 433
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Your last scores are about what he was seeing. Interesting... it's looking like something else is at play here...
Ok I got some weird results. Ran two tests then rebooted phone.
624/1898
608/1809
235/491
231/488
I'm not sure why the second set of scores are so bad. Looked like it was mostly the io tests taking too long. I'm running the DL09 leaked rom and kernel.
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627 - 1894
627 - 1844
DI01, stock, binged, and bloated! Hope you figure it out...
Edit: I seen where other people where scoring significantly less after a reboot, so I tried rebooting and these are my results:
195 - 374
195 - 389
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voghan said:
Ok I got some weird results. Ran two tests then rebooted phone.
624/1898
608/1809
235/491
231/488
I'm not sure why the second set of scores are so bad. Looked like it was mostly the io tests taking too long. I'm running the DL09 leaked rom and kernel.
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Jrex said:
627 - 1894
627 - 1844
DI01, stock, binged, and bloated! Hope you figure it out...
Edit: I seen where other people where scoring significantly less after a reboot, so I tried rebooting and these are my results:
195 - 374
195 - 389
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Yep, something after a reboot is causing a drastic plummet in scores. I've actually pointed the author of the Smartbench 2010 application to this thread, so maybe he'll know what's causing this to happen.
How soon after a reboot are people waiting to run the test? I've noticed that if I try to do much of anything before media scanner runs 2-3 times (or however many it is), things seem to run very slow.
imnuts said:
How soon after a reboot are people waiting to run the test? I've noticed that if I try to do much of anything before media scanner runs 2-3 times (or however many it is), things seem to run very slow.
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I waited somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes before running the bench again, just to make sure everything was loaded.
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I got 675 in PI and a 2060 in GI.
Rockin' DJ05, Minimal Icognito, Blazing with Eclair
Jrex said:
I waited somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes before running the bench again, just to make sure everything was loaded.
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I also waited 5-10 minutes after rebooting. Also tried uninstalling, rebooting, reinstalling and still getting low scores (PI 200s, GI 430s)
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So now 3 guys have been able to duplicate the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens to everyone with a Fascinate. Very strange.
On the plus side, I can tell my friend that his phone is fine. Now, hopefully we can get the benchmark fixed so that you guys can use it!
My first test is kinda disappointing.
PI 338
GI 1352
Second
PI 346
GI 1460
So I am not sure whats going on.
I'm running AOSP 1/03 version. Running the first voodoo kernel. Maybe some mods to the kernel will help?
stockies
all stock, baby momma @
First run
658
2094
Second run
680
2163
fresh boot @ 5 mins
First
228
459
Second (and some kronik)
206
407
Test with voodoo5 1.3ghz test 5 kernel.
PI: 970
GI: 3370
Rockin' DJ05, Minimal Icognito, Clocked at 1.3Ghz
DJ05, jt superclean 0.9 w/voodoo and lagfix
1st run:
PI: 752
GI: 2596
2nd run: Did not show results for some reason. Just a black screen after the jellyfish test.
3rd run: Same as above.
4th run: Again. What the heck?
5th run: -___-
6th run: This is actually kind of funny now.
~I'm gonna reboot, since this is going nowhere fast.
1st run: Black screen again.
2nd run: And again.
3rd run: Nope.
4th run: Zilch.
I think i'll stop for now.

Quadrant scores

Ok so ive rooted this toy, flashed the 1.2ghz kernal and ran quadrant on it. I hit anywhere from 1080 to 1180. Have setcpu on demand at 800 min and 1200 max so why on earth is my rooted nook color running android 2.1 and a flashed 1100mhz kernal hitting wayyyy higher scores? (Around 1280) doesnt seem logical at all. Specially cause this is an actual tablet and thats just a rooted e reader. Did I do something wrong?
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Quadrant is a bad benchmark. It weights i/o far too heavily.
The Tabs RFS filesystems bring its Quadrant score way below where it should be, though in actual use it's very fast.
If you move to EXT4, your Quadrant scores will shoot up by around 80%.
Regards,
Dave
O sweet love of mary. 80% you say. Ok ive seen some posts redarding this ext4 thingymabob. Ill check it out. So if im understanding you correctly by changing to this my tab will perform even better than it does now? Or ill just see a genaric increase on this quadrant test that really means nothing? Sorry im noobish lol
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Well, my tab is currently on ext4 and my quadrant scores completely destroys my rfs score taken earlier.
However, that said, i don't really feel any performance improvements except the satisfaction knowing that my toy is now on an open and faster file system as opposed to a propriatory and slower one ;-)
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Ok so ive looked at some threads containing info but I see no post telling me how to do this magic. Could one of you nice, young, kindhearted souls link me to where I need to go to put this thing on my verizon cdma galaxy tab? Please and thank you sirs?
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Quadrant scores aren't as accurate as people think you know...
Sent from zombie infested Gingerbread.
There's an app called OCLF that will transparently add an EXT4 area on the RFS filesystem without needing to convert the whole thing to EXT4, giving you EXT4 IO performance in an easily installable and reversible way. Probably your best choice for trying it out. Otherwise, for the complete conversion, you could try this Modaco ROM/Kernel, which includes a complete conversion to EXT4.
As far as performance differences go, it makes a huge (10x) difference to the Quadrant IO score (measured before and after figures), but no measurable difference to actual performance (measured real-world usage figures). Some people claim to notice a subjective difference, but I never did.
Im using the modaco rom and kernel with ext4.
And it does make a huge difference. I get around 1800 in quadrant now.
conan1600 said:
Ok so ive looked at some threads containing info but I see no post telling me how to do this magic. Could one of you nice, young, kindhearted souls link me to where I need to go to put this thing on my verizon cdma galaxy tab? Please and thank you sirs?
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hi,
please be aware that the modaco kernel (rfs/ext4) will not work on CDMA Tabs.
from modaco kernel thread
This kernel is ONLY tested on a UK Galaxy Tab. It MAY work on other GSM Tabs, it almost certainly WON'T work on a CDMA Tab. If you have a non UK Tab and want to test (and know how to flash back to a regular version), then go ahead and report your results. At your own risk.
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mike
robertsydbrink said:
Im using the modaco rom and kernel with ext4.
And it does make a huge difference. I get around 1800 in quadrant now.
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That's the point!
It makes a huge difference in Quadrant, which is a synthetic benchmark, but far, far less difference in real world usage - hence it is a crap benchmark!
Pre-EXT4 my Tab would pull around 1000 in Quadrant, whereas my Desire HD would pull around 1800. However in real usage, they seem to perform pretty much the same which is not too surprising as they are similarly specified. On EXT4, my Tab pulls around 1800 now, but still performs much like my DHD.
I so wish people would stop bandying about Quadrant scores because they are meaningless.
Regards,
Dave
If you look at the scores in quadrant , they are split by colour so you can see how good the graphics capabilities are for example and compare to other phones. The colour codes are at the bottom of quadrant by the way
Linpack is a better benchmark. Not perfect, but better
Not really - Linpack only tests floating point performance.
Regards,
Dave
Wow, I started a heated discussion lol. Well ive downloaded the one click lag fix but have not applied the ext2 tools as yet. Want to do more reading about it first. Obviously I want my yab to be the best it can be but I surely dont want to make it genericly better at the expence of my video grafix as one user said he suffered in that thread.
More reserch required
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Taking Quadrant scores aside, when I made the switch from CF-Root to the Ext4 MCK, I really did notice a huge improvement in real world usage. I'm not sure if it is really because of the change in file system, but nevertheless thats the only big thing present in that kernel aside from CWM.
Everything said make sense and seems to be valid but let me share my experience.
I have Samsung Galaxy Vibrant and T-mobile Tab. Now both are using EXT4 file system and have fully functional recovery allowing for flashing straight from the phone.
Both now have Quanrant score around 1700-1800 and run very smothly.
Is I/O speed important? I think it is very important because task switching requires reading of huge chuncks of memory. Until read operation completed the user is essencially suspended. Multitasking is the major distinction of Android and lags associated with the tasks switching might be the most noticeable issue since its used so much. Converting of the RFS file system to EXT4 practically reduced lags to unnoticeable level. I don't need any better.
Another critical area for I/O is playing video and especially capturing HD video. The latter works only if I set internal storage and shut down all tasks.
This is work in progress but it seems it reached level of usability when most critical bugs eliminated.
It should be noted that the Tab is flashed with Rotohammer KM2 v1 ROM and Paul Obrien's kernel on a top. The kernel contains scripts converting the file system and flashing recovery. This combination works well, no issues so far.
Well I decided to give it a try and after install my quadrant is 2556 and linpack is 16.865 mflops at 1200mhz. Good scores but just numbers. I do however believe im seeing a bit of snap that I didnt have before when accessing my library. Still really unsure if this is a good thing as im not sure if I can use apps to sd anymore so I may uninstall at some point in the future but thanks to all you who helped the old man out. Atm im quite happy
Now lets get ta craka lackin on a 1.5 ghz update for our tabs
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Of course you can use a2sd. Froyo does it by default
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I think you are pushing!
Overclocking will raise processor/RAM heat dissipation and thus might lead to a catastrophic failure. It would be great to have temperature sensor on the board or at least measure current consumption from the battery but it is not easy.
Of course im a pushin lol. Only way to achieve is to try. Course ive read about the tab proccessor being able to handle 1.4 stable and can handle 1.6... Not that id know about these things first hand. Just taking the words of better men.
Just an old man with a little time to kill and a dream to be able to play facebook cityville on my tab haha. Well that and I have always enjoyed souping up my toys lmao.
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Accurate benchmarking.

Quadrant is very inaccurate the tests are not up to spec for testing +1Ghz devices accurately.
The reason i say this is due to the fact that the benchmark varies from test to test.
I suggest AnTutu Benchmark.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.antutu.ABenchMark
It is much more accurate, as the the scores are closely similar time and time again.
The tests are a bit longer
But that is the good thing "accuracy"
It also gives info on each testing stage.
I got 2176 on WB's 007.1 TW rom, BB.67 with custom kernel.
OmegaRED^ said:
Quadrant is very inaccurate the tests are not up to spec for testing +1Ghz devices accurately.
The reason i say this is due to the fact that the benchmark varies from test to test.
I suggest AnTutu Benchmark.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.antutu.ABenchMark
It is much more accurate, as the the scores are closely similar time and time again.
The tests are a bit longer
But that is the good thing "accuracy"
It also gives info on each testing stage.
I got 2176 on WB's 007.1 TW rom, BB.67 with custom kernel.
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Good, will give it a try but it'd been better if you post this in themes & apps I guess
by the way what scores do you get with this rom in quadrant?
Chainfire released his new benchmarking tool yesterday, its called CF-Bench, search in the market
i've got 1973 on CM6 006 at 1.1Ghz
benchmarking
It does not matter what benchmarking utility you use. They all give you a general idea of the performance of your phone. I think the OP just wants to use the tool that gives him the score he wants to see.
In reality the score of any phone using any utility is always relative to the scores of other phones using the same utility.
The thing to focus on is not the actual figures you get back but how your device measures up to other phones using the same benchmark test.
kryptoner said:
Chainfire released his new benchmarking tool yesterday, its called CF-Bench, search in the market
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2232 hmm right behind the nexus s
Cm6 wb bb67 custom kernel z
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Try smartbench 2011. That's the best one
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All benchmarking apps generaly suck. Its about how you feel using your phone. Not the numbers.
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pepy_24 said:
All benchmarking apps generaly suck. Its about how you feel using your phone. Not the numbers.
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But it's a good comparison between phones after having a average score for each phone. But like you say, the numbers don't mean anything. Everything is personal.
zodiac100 said:
It does not matter what benchmarking utility you use. They all give you a general idea of the performance of your phone. I think the OP just wants to use the tool that gives him the score he wants to see.
In reality the score of any phone using any utility is always relative to the scores of other phones using the same utility.
The thing to focus on is not the actual figures you get back but how your device measures up to other phones using the same benchmark test.
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True about benchmark apps but I don't think I think the OP just wants to use the tool that gives him the score he wants to see. What the OP is saying that with this app the difference between each time's score is not much hence why calling it accurate.
To look for a good benchmark is more important if you use a new phone with dual core CPU cos the old benchmarks aren´t optimised for them. I read that CF-Bench is optimised for dual cores and stresses the CPU and not so much the GPU of the phone.
But interesting that it seems that the overclocking have such a huge influence. With the first run (Wolfbreaks CM6 TW007) i had 2800 points with 1152MHz and in the second run with 998MHz 2400 points.
But true....it´s more a interesting gadget than to take it too seriously
maddes1402 said:
To look for a good benchmark is more important if you use a new phone with dual core CPU cos the old benchmarks aren´t optimised for them. I read that CF-Bench is optimised for dual cores and stresses the CPU and not so much the GPU of the phone.
But interesting that it seems that the overclocking have such a huge influence. With the first run (Wolfbreaks CM6 TW007) i had 2800 points with 1152MHz and in the second run with 998MHz 2400 points.
But true....it´s more a interesting gadget than to take it too seriously
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It comes down to what you have happening in the background.
If your phone suddenly "for example" decides to fetch data off of 3G or suddenly refreshes the media midway thru the bench then it can effect your score. this is why it's best to do tests when the rom is clean and gone silent. "no background activity" with data disabled.
Benchmarking is used to place the current performance of a device in a certain category.
It's no different from benchmarking PC's.
A whole profession has been built around PC benchmarking with people competing for a first place.
If your score is higher than everyone else you win the competition.
i got 2232 on custom kernel at 1113 mhz processor
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CF-Bench
Smartbench 2011
Quadrant
Antutu Benchmark
what is the best now?
Wolfbreak said:
CF-Bench
Smartbench 2011
Quadrant
Antutu Benchmark
what is the best now?
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CF Bench (full version) has the most stable results, and IMO its the best out there.
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Linpack is perfect
kantk20111 said:
Linpack is perfect
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Linpack only tests the cpu.
I haven't checked how CF bench works yet.
will report.
Wolfbreak said:
CF-Bench
Smartbench 2011
Quadrant
Antutu Benchmark
what is the best now?
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CF bench 101%
Wolfbreak said:
CF-Bench
Smartbench 2011
Quadrant
Antutu Benchmark
what is the best now?
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Chainfire one!
that thing is scale-able across cores (single/multi-cores) and fairly accurate

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