News · 6 Jul 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
We already saw the Samsung Galaxy S running Quake 3 without breaking a sweat a few days ago. But how does it compare to HTC’s latest Android smartphone? Here’s a video of Quake 2 running on an HTC Desire next to a Galaxy S…the verdict is that HTC’s handset gets totally slaughtered by Samsung’s offering. My guess is that this has more to do with Qualcomm/HTC sub-par drivers than the actual GPU power under the hood (even though the PowerVR SGX540 GPU in the Galaxy S is in definitely more powerful that the current Qualcomm Adreno 200 found in the QSD8×50 SnapDragon. Watch the whole thing after the break:
I would also like to point out that the Samsung Galaxy S is Vsynced and that the screen refresh rate is 56Hz that’s why the framerate counter never goies beyond that. In other words: The damn thing is bloody fast and could run Q2 even faster with Vsync off.
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