Motorola Droid Bionic, Quadrant Crunching on Tegra 2

Looks like the inevitable happened. Someone has finally gotten around to installing and running the ubiquitous Quadrant Benchmark on the new Droid Bionic, Verizon’s new dual-core, Nvidia Tegra 2-powered, and LTE-wielding superphone. Results after the break.

Youtube user Isramair was able to capture this revealing video of the Droid Bionic in a quite impressive Quadrant run, where it finished with a final score of 2284. Not bad, as that happens to be the best score for an unmodified Android handset that I’ve seen to date. However, I must warn you that there are a few caveats to the relevance of that number.

1. Android 2.x is not optimized to take advantage of dual-core processors. This could potentially give it a nice speed boost with the appropriate multi-threaded applications.
2. The benchmark run was Quadrant Standard Edition, rather than Quadrant Advanced. The relevance is that the Advanced version lists component sub-scores.

Looking closer at the video, it is a safe assumption that the 2D and 3D graphics sub-scores are actually lower on the Tegra 2 than on Hummingbird SoCs because the frame rate seems consistently lower. On my own personal Nexus S, I seem to range between 35 and 56 in the 3D tests (as do other Hummingbird users, even before applying a lagfix).

Personally, I was expecting much more from Nvidia in the 3D department, given their proficiency with graphics in the desktop realm. While the Droid Bionic is running the test at a higher resolution (960 x 540), I don’t think that justifies such a noticeable drop in performance. However, we have no idea how far along the Droid Bionic is in terms of drivers, so there is still hope for the 3D performance of Nvidia’s latest creation.

Source: Youtube via Android Central