Friends don't let friends run Quadrant on dual cores, so as your very loyal HTC pal, here's some skinny to bear in mind for the future when benchmarks come up.
My 1.2 GHz S3 - 2400. Rooted and nothing else, it dropped to 2200.
Overclocked, bloat stripped and running like a screaming banshi with its hair on fire at 1.5 GHz: 750. Nope, I didn't forget a one somewhere - 750. In other words, improvements that you see and go wow to will make Quadrant scores go up, down, and sideways.
Quadrant, while famous, won't tell you anything about a dual core phone so you want to shift your thinking a tad to get the best ideas.
If you want to be prepared to be amazed at how your current phone works compared to a dual core, run these now (all free in the Market), compare later to the Rezound:
CF-Bench for cpu (REALLY tests lots of calculation types)
Nenamark 2 for 3d/gaming graphics on the gpu
Vellamo Mobile Web Browser benchmark
I like benchmarks that will relate to end-user use of the phone overall, if you're like me and want simple benchmarking tools that really work for that, those are some good picks (and there are other good ones as well for dual cores).
For a fun push on some of the GPU capabilities, try Monjori Shader Benchmark - note for example that single cores are going to come in below 20 fps on that (with the Galaxy S hitting 4 to 7 fps), while the S3 is going to hit 30 fps.
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A note on dual cores - people call the S3 an A8 and the other new dual cores an A9 Cortex. Yeah. No.
The S3 is unique in that it runs a heavily-extend Cortex architecture but is not Cortex. Think like AMD and Intel - the two will run the same instructions, but the AMD is not an earlier Intel, it's other.
The S3 is other.
It's the only dual core out there where each cpu core will run at independent speeds, so each core works just to the level it needs. The A9 dual cores are locked - so the kernel designer has to optimize for speed (both cores running at the speed of the fastest, to heck with power), efficiency (both cores running at the speed of the slowest, to heck with performance) or somewhere in between (one size fits all). While the A9 is doing all that - the S3 just does what it needs to do, simply and efficiently where clock management is concerned.
That just flew in the face of nearly everything you'll read on the web, but just remember that nearly everything you'll read on the web came from A9 manufacturers who are unhappy with the asynchronous clock approach. Synchronous clocking in the A9 is part of the Cortex spec - S3 Scorpions just don't work that way at all.
In my studies, I've found that the S3 is per-clock a bit less efficient than the A9 types - so pretty much expect the S3 at 1.5 GHz to basically match up with an A9 (Exynos, Tegra 2, OMAP4) at 1.2 GHz for cpu performance, and everyone argues about gpu performance, so I won't enter that fray.
I'll just say the best glasses-free *real* 3D phone runs with an S3 and let you draw your own conclusions if the S3 isn't more than plenty capable for media processing.
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A note on dual cores and ICS -
Your Rezound *will* run both cores very efficiently. Android and many apps are already fully capable of running both cores well (pictures upon request).
ICS is simply upping the game in task management on dual cores. Expect an improvement, but don't take any guff from anyone telling your Rezound isn't running both cores with Gingerbread because that's just silly and not true.
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