Benchmarking the Nseries

If you remember a few days backed I talked about this cool 3D tech Demo designed by FutureMark for Nokia. All of those nice graphics are made possible by the N82’s Texas Instrument's OMAP 2 chip which just happens to have Imagination Technologies’ Power VR MBX core with VGP.  In fact the E90 has it, including all variants of the N95, N93, N93i, N800 and the new N810, although the situation with the N800 and N810 is still a mystery to me. The great thing about this chip is that it has support for Open ES 1.1. This comes down to these phones being capable of displaying some pretty impressive graphics as you have seen in my previous post. This also makes them of one the fastest devices when it comes to 3D graphics. With faster I mean graphics pushing power to enable higher frame rates.  So how much faster are the E- and Nseries devices equipped with the OMAP 2/ Power VR MBX combo when  compared to devices from other brands? To find one, we have to do something that many PC gamers have done for years: benchmarking.  Benchmarking is basically running a program or a set of programs in order to assess the performance of computer hardware. But in this case we are going to benchmark a phone!!! (I mean multimedia computer, sorry Nokia)

 

How do we benchmark? FutureMark, the same guys that created the demo I talked about before have several 3D demos to test your device’s performance. They also allow you to upload your scores (Java only) and compare them to the scores of other users. This will allow you to see how your device does against other models and manufacturers. The app also includes information about your device including CPU and OpenGL technology being used. Strange that among the many apps it also reports that the N82’s CPU is running at 206Mhz. Anywho, all samples of a specific model like the N95 should perform the same, but the cool thing is that sometimes you might be lucky enough to get a sample that just happens to run faster and thus scores higher. Most of their benchmarks are not free, but luckily there’s SPMark for Symbian OS v9 (3D gaming) and SPMarkJava JSR 184 (Java performance).

SPMark for Symbian OS v9 and SPMarkJava JSR 184 can be downloaded here and here. How did your device fair against the other? What scores did you get?

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hi all :)

hi all :)

[RichB]

Original N95, v20 software.
SPMark score: 68393
3D Game: 74.98fps
Fillrate: 26.46Mtexels/s
Polycount: 543.22 Ktriangles/s

N95 and n93 are faster its fast as the n95 8gb.