How do you figure that? How fast an app opens, how smooth the web browser is on difficult to render pages, how well the latest hardware intense game runs on your phone doesn't matter? All of this is measured by various benchmark apps.
Sure, for people who don't care anything about performance and want basic features they don't matter, but that's not everyone and is certainly not the majority on a phone enthusiast forum.
if the benchmark app tests exactly that.
Also, there are multiple caveats here, but I'm going to address 3 of them.
1) A lot of people run benchmark apps on a system with very little actually running in the background on said system. If you take away what is considered
every day running apps and tasks, sure, the benchmark is going to be artificially higher.
2) Benchmarks are not much different than, say, online speed tests. There are a lot of factors affecting the test, and a single run (or even 3 runs back to back) will never be a true representation of how well the system will perform in real world calculations. the only way to get that is to benchmark your system in a real world scenario - but if you're benchmarking the phone, then doing things like
How fast an app opens, how smooth the web browser is on difficult to render pages, how well the latest hardware intense game runs on your phone doesn't matter
won't measure well b/c you're already using your phone to do something else - run the benchmark app.
3) If you have TiBu, backup all your apps, perform a hard reset, skip adding a GMail account and then restore / install the benchmarking app. You'll be
blown away. But, again, that is not real world.
Benchmark apps
On Android simulate these conditions that you say they measure - they don't actually load a webpage, they don't actually load a game, they don't actually render the webpage on various sites.
Benchmarks are not perfect. There are a lot of factors involved and just because something scores a little higher does not mean its better.
It's a decent indication that something is working better, at least that one, 3, or 50 times the comparisons are performed....But, yes, they are not an End-all answer to which phone is
better as that is a completely subjective matter.
Benchmarks don't measure any of that stuff. There hasn't been a single benchmarking app that's designed for the way android runs. I've seen where someone got a benchmark score, changed a couple of setting on the phone, re-ran the benchmark app and his score increased by about 75% because he was able to fool the program.
How fast an app opens, how smooth the web browser is on difficult to render pages, how well the latest hardware intense game runs on the phone all matters, but a benchmark will never accurately tell you any of that info, but the people who make the apps would like everyone to think they do(I guess they're kinda like apple that way).
That's why they mean absolutely nothing,.
There are benchmark apps out that that do well to simulate these things, but in the long run, it's as you say - they're not doing it for real.
Actually, right.
You're more than welcome to believe in benchmarks if you want to. Maybe Santa and the Easter Bunny will be willing to compare their benchmark scores with you.
Let's keep it civil, OK?
