Looking at the price point. I wouldn’t call the benchmark performance of Xperia M2 good. But here’s the thing. The processor inside this phone can only perform this much. Increasing the price of the phone wouldn’t increase the performance of the phone. It runs on Snapdragon 400 chipset, which has quadcore Cortex A7 CPU and Adreno 305 GPU. A combination that does not worth 20,000 Rupees. This chipset belongs to phones below 15,000 Rupees. Moto G has the same chipset and just look at its price.
Category: Benchmark
Lava Iris 406Q is a very small phone in terms of dimensions. But it is not all small in terms of performance. Which is a very good thing looking at the price point of this phone. It performed well in benchmarks. For some reason, Antutu device info shows that this phone has Adreno 305 GPU, it doesn’t though. It has Adreno 302 GPU. Maybe Adreno 302 is new for the benchmark to recognize or maybe it is very similar to the Adreno 305 in architecture. That’s why Antutu got confused and couldn’t differentiate between the two. You can see for yourself in the screenshots of benchmarks below.
Htc desire 310 is a very average phone, everything about it shouts average, from its processor to its camera. But in the benchmark tests it performed a little above than average or you can also say a little better than what you would expect from a phone under this price range. Some of the benchmark tests like T-rex test of geekbench test didn’t even start. The reason it stated for not being able to run the test was not the weak CPU or GPU but its lack of RAM. As this phone has only 512MB RAM which acts as a bottleneck for demanding games and benchmark tests.
Micromax Canvas Knight performed really well in benchmarks. To tell you exactly how well, let me tell you that it even beat Samsung Galaxy S4 in Antutu, don’t believe me? See for yourself in the screenshots below. Maybe Antutu is optimized for this chipset. The rest of the benchmarks were just average. Although these benchmarks don’t mean much yet because none of them is programmed to utilize each of the 8 cores available inside the Micromax Canvas Knight. I don’t think any of the benchmarks are fully designed yet to use the new Mali 450GPU either. In 3DMark which is mainly a gaming or GPU benchmark. When i ran general “ice storm” test it maintained frame rates around 28 fps constantly
Benchmark results of Micromax Mad surprised me, if not all, at least some did. For instance in one benchmark it scored higher than Samsung Galaxy S2, which is still nowhere near this price in the market. That benchmark was Antutu by the way. In 3DMark which is mainly a gaming and GPU related benchmark, it was refusing to even run because the device don’t even have 1GB RAM, which is required to run the benchmark properly but it ran anyway and it performed well below average, the average frame rate was below 20. So, can’t call it good. But all in all the overall benchmark performance was neutral.
Benchmark performance of Samsung Galaxy grand is pretty average as you’d expect from a mid ranger. Benchmarks fluctuates a lot during the GPU test, but that is expected because of its weak GPU. For 22,990 Rupees you are getting a very average GPU i.e, Adreno 305 but a very good HD display. Seriously the processor doesn’t do justice to the display. It deserves better. The phone lags in general anyway mainly due to weak processor and on top of that heavy customization of Android OS. Even 1.5GB of RAM couldn’t help it that much, because more than half of the RAM is consumed by the OS itself leaving very less for apps.
The benchmark performance of Sony Xperia C was too predictable because of its chipset. The Mediatek MTK 6589 chipset gives a very consistent performance in benchmarks, like always. The performance of Sony Xperia C was a little higher than Canvas 4 and other 5 inch screen phones with HD screens though, because of its qHD display. Only benchmark that didn’t run well or perform well was 3DMark which is a benchmark mainly for gaming and it ran on HD resolution. Rest of the benchmarks run well because then ran on Xperia C’s native qHD resolution. Although there are other things that effects benchmark performance too like speed of Micro SD card or how full your memory is. So all of it doesn’t depends on CPU and GPU alone.