HTC Desire 516 Benchmark & Gaming Performance

Phones with Snapdragon 200 chipsets either performs bad or very bad in benchmarks test. And that is understandable ’cause it’s a entry level chipset after all but HTC Desire 516 actually performed better with the same chipset. How? Software optimizations done by HTC over Android 4.3 Jellybean. The OS runs buttery smooth most of the time. Along with optimization HTC has also put some nasty restrictions too, but that i am going to leave for the gaming section. Below are all the scores and full hardware info.

Antutu

Nenamark 2

Quadrant

Vellamo

3DMark

Gaming

HTC Desire 516 does not have ‘preferred install location’ and ‘move to sd’ features. Two very important features for gaming. These are the nasty restrictions that i was talking about. Internal memory of this phone is 4GB out of which something around 1.7GB is available for the user. And that 1.7GB is for everything. Games, apps, multimedia.

Don’t fret yet, you can expand the memory with micro sd card. But that’s for only multimedia. Apps and games will still get installed on the internal memory only. Now, you can fret. You’ll never be able to install games bigger than 1.7GB on this phone and you can only install one big game at a time. This phone is clearly not for ‘hardcore smartphone gamers’ this is for ‘casual gamers’. Performance wise it played Real Racing 3 pretty well. But then again, Real Racing 3 is one of the few games that are optimized for Adreno 305GPU, which this phone has. You can see the performance yourself in the video below.