The Samsung Galaxy S phones pack some serious performance firepower. Everyone wants to know just how fast that Hummingbird processor runs.
The easiest way to observe its performance is to just use it. Flipping through screens, opening apps, and carrying out general tasks on it will immediately reveal some of the capabilities of this blazing processor. But if you are a true gearhead, you probably would like some real performance data to go with your general seat of the pants impressions.
Well, lucky for you, there are several popular apps you can use to benchmark the performance of your Galaxy S. It is important to note that these testing apps should only be used as a guideline for relative comparison, rather than as an absolute measurement of real performance.
Quadrant is one of the most popular choices to test speed on Android phones. While there are many who think Quadrant scores are useless, as it is significantly biased towards I/O performance, enthusiasts commonly use the Quadrant app to ‘measure’ how the performance of their phone changes.
Quadrant may not tell you much when comparing across phones. For example if you see that a stock Galaxy S scores 900 and a Droid X scores 1100, it does not necessarily mean the Droid X will be faster in general day-to-day use.
But what Quadrant and other tests like it are good for is to compare relative performance among phones that are the same model. For example, If your Galaxy S gets 1600, and someone else’s Galaxy S gets 1000, then it is reasonably safe to say that in certain performance measures, your Galaxy S is Faster than your friend’s.
These tests are also very useful to measure the effects of software changes on your phone.
You can do a test when your phone is brand new out of the box, and then test it again after you have 50 apps installed. Did it slow down? How about that new lagfix or custom ROM you flashed… just how much faster did that make your phone?
In the video I run an initial Quadrant test on my phone right out of the box when it was new. I wanted a baseline measurement.
905 is what my brand new phone got before I made any changes to it. After I had installed nearly 50 apps, I ran another Quadrant test. This time I got 880 which tells me that even with the added ‘load’ of all these apps, at the very least Quadrant did not find much evidence to suggest my phone is much slower.. 880 and 905 are too close.. It’s basically the same. Now let’s see what kind of Quadrant score I get after trying one of the lagfix options out there.
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