Android benchmarks: HTC EVO 4G vs Dell Streak vs Motorola Droid X vs Samsung Captivate

A lot has happened since I questioned why people like Android so much and admitted a few months later how motherhood turned me into a smartphone whore. I added five more phones to my life, I started two new gadget-specific websites (Good and EVO and Streak Smart), and Android became my mobile OS of choice for MIDs.

Four of the new phones are running Android (left to right above: HTC EVO 4G, Dell Streak, Motorola Droid X, and Samsung Captivate), so there's a lot of basis for comparison. Which phone is best depends on personal preferences/priorities: not everyone cares about a front-facing camera, wants the biggest screen, or lives in a 4G area. So I'm going to take subjectivity out of the equation right now and focus on something a little more objective: benchmarks.

Since all four phones have a different combination of OS version, CPU, and GPU, I thought it might be useful to run some benchmarks to see how various factors impact scores/results.

About the devices (OS, CPU, RAM, GPU):

All four phones are running their stock ROMs.

Linpack

Linpack for Android tests speed and returns results in MFLOPS (millions of floating point operations per second).

• EVO: 36.577
  
• Streak: 4.183
• Droid X: 8.29
• Captivate: 8.512

Quadrant

Quadrant Standard Edition tests CPU, memory, I/O, 2D graphics, and 3D graphics.

• EVO: 1165
• Streak: 468
• Droid X: 1189
  
• Captivate: 881

Fps2D

Fps2D measures 2D frames per second and returns an average fps based on 1,000 iterations.

• EVO: 29 fps
• Streak: 28 fps
• Droid X: 58 fps
• Captivate: 55 fps

An3DBench

An3DBench is a 3D benchmark that runs several tests (settings used: 16-bit textures and no VBO).

Fillrate ST/MT

• EVO: 5.16/5.17 MP/sec
• Streak: 10.97/10.77 MP/sec
• Droid X: 11.02/11.05 MP/sec
• Captivate: 9.51/9.54 MP/sec

High object count

• EVO: 18.56 fps
• Streak: 4.33 fps
• Droid X: 27.29 fps
• Captivate: 31.62 fps

Multiple lights

• EVO: 29.99 fps
• Streak: 28.28 fps
• Droid X: 60.45 fps
• Captivate: 55.54 fps

High polygon count

• EVO: 23.81 fps
• Streak: 12.10 fps
• Droid X: 25.27 fps
• Captivate: 46.93 fps

Keyframe animation

• EVO: 30.07 fps
• Streak: 28.86 fps
• Droid X: 60.46 fps
• Captivate: 55.68 fps

Game level

• EVO: 23.84 fps
• Streak: 12.63 fps
• Droid X: 44.94 fps
• Captivate: 55.67 fps

Total score

• EVO: 3384
• Streak: 2317
• Droid X: 5985
• Captivate: 6637

Both the EVO and Streak have 30 fps caps, which obviously had a negative effect on their graphics scores. There are ways to uncap the limit on the EVO, but I wanted to test all of the devices in their factory states.

It will be interesting to run these tests again when all four phones are running Froyo (Android 2.2).

Update: New scores for Dell Streak running Android 2.1

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