14 DAY TRIAL // Last week, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced the launch of a new smartphone running under Google's Android operating system, the HTC Sensation, previously known as the HTC Pyramid, and some more info on the handset's graphical capabilities emerged.
The new Android mobile phone was tested on GLBenchmark 2.0, and, although only a single test was run, we can learn some more on the capabilities of this device compared to those of other handsets on the market.
The handset had been benchmarked before being officially launched, but it did not delivered the expected performance capabilities, maybe due to the fact that that was not final hardware.
However, in the new benchmark test, the Adreno 220 GPU inside HTC's Sensation smartphone managed to go around 7 percent above the Tegra 2 GPU in the Motorola ATRIX.
When compared to the LG Optimus 2X, the handset delivered a 26 percent performance increase, while scoring 41 percent higher than Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone, which includes a single core processor.
What users should keep in mind, the guys over at Pocketnow note in a recent article, would be the fact that the HTC Sensation and Motorola ATRIX come to the market with 960 x 540 pixels touchscreen displays, while the LG Optimus 2X and Samsung Galaxy S boast 800 x 480 pixels screens.
There is a 1.35x difference in the number of pixels, and the test results would need to be adjusted accordingly.
At the same time, they note that the HTC Sensation (and the new Samsung Galaxy S II) have been tested with Google's newer Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform on board, while other devices were benchmarked with the Android 2.2 Froyo OS on board.
The faster application processor that HTC packed with the new device (a 1.2GHz Snapdragon) is responsible too for the performance increase that the Adreno 220 GPU shows in these benchmarking tests.
