Plenty of US Android fans were somewhat miffed when HTC announced that the AT&T version of the flagship One X would be getting a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, instead of the more flamboyant NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core. As we’ve seen ourselves when comparing the One X with the smaller One S, the Snapdragon is no slouch. But to finally set the record straight, one YouTube user put both versions of the One X in a head-to-head benchmark battle. The results may surprise you.
He started off by putting both his international One X (Tegra 3) and an AT&T demo One X (Snapdragon S4) through the ubiquitous Quadrant benchmark. The Tegra 3 version scored 4988 while the Snapdragon model got 4794. This is a difference of about 4% – not bad for a step down to dual core. On the Linpack Multithread test, the Snapdragon model actually beat out the Tegra 3 by a factor of about 50%, in both speed and floating-point calculations. In Nenamark 2, a pure graphics test, the Snapdragon’s Adreno graphics beat out the visually oriented Tegra 3 with a score of 57.9 frames per second to 48.2.
Benchmarks should never be taken as a be-all, end-all indication of everyday performance, and given the mixed results on three very different tests it’s hard to declare a winner here. But I think it’s safe to say that AT&T One X users wont’ be disappointed by the dual-core Snapdragon S4. AT&T’s One X launches on May 6th.
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[via DroidMatters]
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Odd that the YouTube videos numbers are so far off of ubergizmos and fudzillas. And anantech which all showed tegra trouncing the snapdragon. Any explanation for the discrepancy?
Ok so is there a way to measure amount of battery used during these tests?