Futuremark Corporation has just released SPMark™04 Smart Phone benchmark, free to consumers. Running on Symbian phones which use either Series 60 or UIQ Interfaces, SPMark™04 is a test of OpenGL ES using hardware or emulation. Futuremark has not yet implemented an Online ResultBrowser for this benchmark. However, in user testing there have been no major anomalies thrown up by benchmarking; the 6630 is the obviously the fastest Symbian S60, followed by the 7610, with the n-Gage/3650 coming last. Read more to check out exact scores, and comment with your own results.
Futuremark Corporation has just released SPMark™04 Smart Phone benchmark, free to consumers. Running on Symbian phones which use either Series 60 or UIQ Interfaces, SPMark™04 is a test of OpenGL ES using hardware or emulation. Futuremark has not yet implemented an Online ResultBrowser for this benchmark. However, in user testing there have been no major anomalies thrown up by benchmarking; the 6630 is the obviously the fastest Symbian S60, followed by the 7610, with the n-Gage/3650/6600 coming last.
It is a little strange that the 6620 comes in slower than the 7610, given it's faster processor; but this result is not utterly surprising, given that the PC Magazine review of the Nokia 6620 noted "Thanks to its 150-MHz processor, the 6620 blew past other Symbian phones in memory, disk access, and 2D-image tests, although the Nokia 7610 beat it handily on JPEG compression."These two factoids suggest that there is some form of hardware graphics acceleration included in all Nokia Series 60 phones except the Nokia 6620, but there is no other evidence to support this conjuncture.
We expect a quantum increase in benchmark scores once hardware 3D accelerators arrive for phones (soon! e.g. ATI Imageon), and we hope that all 3D chipset vendors and the mobile phone providers stay scrupulously above-board, to avoid scandals similar to those in the PC 3D market.
All readers should also realise that phone benchmarking is relevant only as a diagnostic test to determine if your phone is working to spec, in a similar way to how benchmarking should be regarded in the PC arena. This is especially true because DIY modifications to phones are unlikely to become popular. Benchmarks below are the best seen total score, per phone and firmware.
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Thanks to the the brilliant howardforums.com and various users from forums.hardwarezone.com.
SPMark™04 was first announced on 7 July 2004, but was available only in a Business Edition ($250) and a Developer’s Edition ($6,000 + programming). These are still available in Futuremark’s secure web store.
