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WP BENCH Windows Phone7 benchmark released: hands on video

WP BENCH Windows Phone7 benchmark released: hands on video

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The WP BENCH Windows phone 7 benchmark application that was unveiled on YouTube more than a month ago is now finally available on the Marketplace. The application runs will let you test the following functionalities of your device:

– CPU Single-threaded and Multi-threaded performance
– Memory read/write speed
– Storage read/write speed
– GPU Performance
– Display color reproduction
– Battery Life

Check out the video of the app in action on the Samsung Omnia 7:

Go ahead and grab it from the Marketplace then run it on your device so we can compare the “estimated” performance of each Windows Phone 7 handset.

Here’s the Omnia 7 score:

– CPU Single-threaded / Multi-threaded performance: 10930ms / 10558ms
– Memory read/write speed: 13.07 MB/s
– Storage read/write speed: 3.82 MB/s
– GPU Performance: 22fps

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