Qualcomm Adreno 205 vs Adreno 220 / HTC Sensation vs HTC Flyer, HTC Desire HD and Samsung Galaxy S

Heres s quick compilation of benchmark results comparing the Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU vs Adreno 220 GPU found in the HTC Sensation (as part of the MSM8260 SoC). The are several things to note here: First, the Adreno 205 found in the HTC Flyer and HTC Desire HD are most probably not clocked at the same speed (The MSM8255 is clocked at 1Ghz in the Desire HD compared to1.5Ghz in the HTC Flyer). Secondly, THe screen resolution are different on each handsets: - HTC Desire HD: 800X480 - Samsung Galaxy S: 800480 - HTC Sensation: 960540 - HTC Flyer: 1024600 Thirdly, the driver versions are obviously not the same on all devices so you shouldnt take those results as granted, they are just an indication of how these GPUs stack up against each other in synthetic benchmarks. The now famous and awesome PowerVR SGX540 is also included in the mix. Check the results after the break: HTC Desire HD / Adreno 205 2043 Frames (18.1 GLBenchmark 2.0 Egypt : Fps) GLBenchmark 2.0 Egypt 1705 Frames (15.1 Samsung Galaxy S HTC Flyer / Adreno HTC Sensation / / SGX540 205 Adreno 220 2423 Frames (21.4 1997 Frames (17.6 2677 Frames (23.4 Fps) Fps) Fps) 1957 Frames (17.3 1637 Frames (14.7 2280 Frames (20.1

FSAA : GLBenchmark 2.0 Egypt FSAA Fixed Time : GLBenchmark 2.0 PRO :

Fps) 194328 ms 1269 Frames (25.4 Fps) 973 Frames (19.5 Fps)

Fps) 170861 ms 1931 Frames (38.6 Fps) 1441 Frames (28.8 Fps) 51186 ms 2026 kVertex/s (15.4 Fps) 2862 kShader/s (5.6 Fps) 9996 kFragment/s (26.0 Fps) 2398 kVertex/s (18.3 Fps)

Fps) 194191 ms 1088 Frames (21.9 Fps) 848 Frames (17.1Fps) 79835 ms 2213 kVertex/s (16.9 Fps)

Fps) 155598 ms 2728 Frames (54.3Fps) 2564 Frames (51.1 Fps) 25960 ms 7999 kVertex/s (60.9 Fps)

GLBenchmark 2.0 PRO FSAA : GLBenchmark PRO FSAA 69861 ms Fixed Time : Array test: uniform array access : Branching test: balanced : Branching test: fragment weighted : Branching test: vertex weighted : Common test: balanced : Common test: fragment weighted : Common test: vertex weighted : Geometric test: balanced : Geometric test: fragment weighted : Geometric test: vertex weighted : Exponential test: balanced :

2325 kVertex/s (17.7 Fps) 5484 kShader/s (10.6 Fps) 11726 kFragment/s (30.5 Fps) 2084 kVertex/s (15.9 Fps)

6022 kShader/s (8.1 9044 kShader/s Fps) (13.9 Fps) 12260 kFragment/s 24377 kFragment/s (20.0 Fps) (47.0 Fps) 2021 kVertex/s 6709 kVertex/s (15.4 Fps) (51.2 Fps) 3747 kShader/s (5.0 6966 kShader/s Fps) (10.8 Fps) 8084 kFragment/s 16610 kFragment/s (13.2 Fps) (32.0 Fps) 499 kVertex/s (3.8 3350 kVertex/s Fps) (25.6 Fps) 3532 kShader/s (4.7 6589 kShader/s Fps) (10.4 Fps) 8802 kFragment/s 18001 kFragment/s (14.3 Fps) (34.6 Fps) 809 kVertex/s (6.2 4760 kVertex/s Fps) (36.4 Fps) 7000 kShader/s (9.4 11773 kShader/s Fps) (18.1 Fps) 15547 kFragment/s 30330 kFragment/s (25.3 Fps) (58.5 Fps) 1119 kVertex/s (8.5 5417 kVertex/s Fps) (41.2 Fps) 204865 kTexels/s (5.2 Fps) 113213 kTexels/s (3.4 Fps)

3385 kShader/s (6.6 Failed / Not Fps) supported 7872 kFragment/s Failed / Not (20.5 Fps) supported 503 kVertex/s (3.8 2295 kVertex/s Fps) (17.5 Fps) 3071 kShader/s (6.0 2862 kShader/s Fps) (5.6 Fps) 8654 kFragment/s 5082 kFragment/s (22.5 Fps) (13.2 Fps) 820 kVertex/s (6.2 2398 kVertex/s Fps) (18.3 Fps)

6121 kShader/s 3270 kShader/s (11.9 Fps) (6.3 Fps) Exponential test: fragment 14674 kFragment/s 7543 kFragment/s weighted : (38.2 Fps) (19.6 Fps) Exponential test: vertex 1124 kVertex/s (8.6 2379 kVertex/s weighted : Fps) (18.1 Fps) Fill test: texture fetch : For loop test: balanced : 182942 kTexels/s (7.4 Fps) 73753 kTexels/s (3.0 Fps)

4175 kShader/s (8.1 3089 kShader/s

4627 kShader/s (6.2 9121 kShader/s

For loop test: fragment weighted : For loop test: vertex weighted : Triangle test: textured : Triangle test: textured, fragment lit : Triangle test: textured, vertex lit : Triangle test: white : Trigonometric test: balanced : Trigonometric test: fragment weighted : Trigonometric test: vertex weighted : Swapbuffer speed :

Fps) 10598 kFragment/s (27.6 Fps) 877 kVertex/s (6.7 Fps) 9266 kTriangles/s (70.6 Fps) 7729 kTriangles/s (58.9 Fps) 7715 kTriangles/s (58.7 Fps) 12118 kTriangles/s (92.3 Fps)

(6.0 Fps) 2333 kVertex/s (17.8 Fps) 2333 kVertex/s (17.8 Fps) 4046 kTriangles/s (30.8 Fps) 2806 kTriangles/s (21.4 Fps) 3364 kTriangles/s (25.6 Fps) 5219 kTriangles/s (39.7 Fps)

Fps) 11014 kFragment/s (17.9 Fps) 858 kVertex/s (6.5 Fps) 9314 kTriangles/s (17.7 Fps) 7528 kTriangles/s (14.3 Fps) 7601 kTriangles/s (14.5 Fps) 11157 kTriangles/s (21.2 Fps)

(14.0 Fps) 22305 kFragment/s (43.1Fps) 4895 kVertex/s (37.3 Fps) 12875 kTriangles/s (24.5 Fps) 10640 kTriangles/s (20.02Fps) 10502 kTriangles/s (20.1Fps) 16033 kTriangles/s (30.6 Fps)

3244 kShader/s (6.3 2030 kShader/s Fps) (3.9 Fps) 8800 kFragment/s 2757 kFragment/s (22.9 Fps) (7.2 Fps) 850 kVertex/s (6.5 1730 kVertex/s Fps) (13.2 Fps) 592 (59.2 Fps) 560 (56.0 Fps)

3714 kShader/s (5.0 6745 kShader/s Fps) (10.3Fps) 9072 kFragment/s 18502 kFragment/s (14.8 Fps) (35.9 Fps) 877 kVertex/s (6.7 4622 kVertex/s Fps) (35.2 Fps) 545 (54.5 Fps) 608 (60.8Fps)

GL Benchmark 2.0:

Qualcomm Electopia:

This is Qualcomms own benchmark so we shouldnt be surprised to see the PowerVR SGX540 score as low as it does. Nenamark:

Quadrant:

As you can in the results above the Adreno 220 is vastly superior compared to the others but only in certain test (notice how the HTC Desire HD scores OGL2.0 triangle test..). More importantly, I can assure that you wont notice any major performance difference between of the devices tested above during regular usage as there simply no applications or games that really takes advantage of the GPU power or even the Dual-core CPU.