LG Optimus 2X Benchmarked Against Nexus S, In-Depth Video Tour

[phandroid]

Germans are getting uber excited (see what I did there?) about the LG Optimus 2X – which is being called the Optimus Speed over in that part of Europe – and have been covering this thing as extensively as one could hope. At SmartDroid, they put the device up against the Nexus S and ran [...]

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The more impressive factor here too the tegra2 results are only with one of the two cores

 

[Shocky]

Take a look at Anandtech benchmarks of Tegra 2 (LG Optimus 2X) vs PowerVR SGX540(Galaxy S, Nexus S)

There really isnt that much in it, Tegra 2 is faster but not by enough to really make a difference.

That said dual core is welcome but most if not all current apps wont take advantage of the second core, it will take time for that to change. Quadrant gets a allot of attention considering the results are meaningless.

I'm waiting for a Tegra 2 based phone with 1GB of memory and a better battery.

 

[saps]

Take a look at Anandtech benchmarks of Tegra 2 (LG Optimus 2X) vs PowerVR SGX540(Galaxy S, Nexus S)

There really isnt that much in it, Tegra 2 is faster but not by enough to really make a difference.

That said dual core is welcome but most if not all current apps wont take advantage of the second core, it will take time for that to change. Quadrant gets a allot of attention considering the results are meaningless.

I'm waiting for a Tegra 2 based phone with 1GB of memory and a better battery.

Again the numbers you see from tegra2 devices are with one of the two cores. So yes on the surface one tegra2 core is only what 10-20% faster than a hummingbird. But when the OS gets to the point where it utilizes both cores there should be the gains everyone is expecting. The debate seems to be whether 2.3 has native dual core support [doubt it] or whether 2.4 is needed [likely].

 

[Shocky]

Again the numbers you see from tegra2 devices are with one of the two cores. So yes on the surface one tegra2 core is only what 10-20% faster than a hummingbird. But when the OS gets to the point where it utilizes both cores there should be the gains everyone is expecting. The debate seems to be whether 2.3 has native dual core support [doubt it] or whether 2.4 is needed [likely].

But that depends on the bottleneck, the most demanding applications we currently have are games, in games the bottleneck is the GPU not the CPU.

Cortex A9 (single core) scores high in quadrant for similar reasons snapdragon's do, but it doesn

 

[HustlinDaily]

The more impressive factor here too the tegra2 results are only with one of the two cores

Are you sure about this? Android is open source and manufacturers can change anything they need to change about it. Highly doubt they would release a phone which is unable to utilize its potential (ie. Doesn't make sense for them to advertise dual core when dual core is "pointless.")

 

[BatfinkUK1]

Are you sure about this? Android is open source and manufacturers can change anything they need to change about it. Highly doubt they would release a phone which is unable to utilize its potential (ie. Doesn't make sense for them to advertise dual core when dual core is "pointless.")

I agree; plus on the app side of things the tegra 2 has its own game dev portal specifically for tegra 2 optimized apps. It

 

[saps]

Are you sure about this? Android is open source and manufacturers can change anything they need to change about it. Highly doubt they would release a phone which is unable to utilize its potential (ie. Doesn't make sense for them to advertise dual core when dual core is "pointless.")

But thats exactly what happens all the time. The hardware frequently is waiting for the software to catch up. The latest Android OS out is 2.3.2 it does not support dual core cpu yet. The good news is none of the tegra2 devices are out so Android has time to get their software up to the point where the second core can be utilized