Hello there,
So I have a regular I9300, and I've been playing with ROMs (hopefully I'll soon be a honest S3 hacker and able to develop apps and other hacks ), and testing Quadrant on them.
I've been getting wildly different numbers from ROM to ROM, in fact I'm so intrigued about them, I thought I'd share them with you.
All of these tests were done at least twice to confirm numbers, I'm posting the most relevant results.
Stock Samsung 4.1.1 ROM:
5341 (CPU 12715 / Mem 4640 / IO 6414 / 2D 1000 / 3D 1938)
Omega Samsung 4.1.2 ROM: very variable, so I'm going to post several results, look at the 2D and 3D numbers mostly:
6068 (CPU 13136 / Mem 4538 / IO 9508 / 2D 971 / 3D 2189)
5736 (CPU 12570 / Mem 4457 / IO 8185 / 2D 1014 / 3D 2453)
5847 (CPU 12820 / Mem 4407 / IO 9742 / 2D 667 / 3D 1599)
So, it seems that the 4.1.2 ROM does something to IO that largely improves its performance. I don't have a SD card in my S3, if it helps. Is it the same for everyone..? These nice numbers? As for 3D, I don't know why these numbers tend to be so different from one run to another.
CM 10.1 is set with soft nav bar, and disabled hardware keys, nav bar is ~40 dp so the resolution is a bit smaller.
CM 10.1 Performance Governor: 3840 (CPU 8743 / Mem 2360 / IO 5428 / 2D 208 / 3D 2459)
CM 10.1 Ondemand Governor: 3682 (CPU 8765 / Mem 2299 / IO 5076 / 2D 102 / 3D 2170)
CM 10.1 Pegasusq Governor: 4496 (CPU 12503 / Mem 2419 / IO 4851 / 2D 197 / 3D 2510)
CM 10.1 Pegasusq Governor (first run I made): 4388 (CPU 11626 / Mem 2107 / IO 4941 / 2D 178 / 3D 3088)
I'm only posting the last because the 3D number is so huge... 3088?! And indeed it shows when running the benchmark: the planet scene is extremely fluid, whereas it was a bit jerky in the Samsung ROMs.
Other than that, it seems that CM 10.1's performance sucks when it comes to IO (twice slower than 4.1.2 Samsung), Memory (twice slower) and 2D (on average 5 times slower!!) GLBenchmark numbers seem to be similar to the Samsung version though. (Haven't tested much -- it's too long to run...)
It's really annoying, because I pretty much love CM apart from these benchmark numbers. The 'known issues' for CM 10.1 + S3 do say that the 'UI is laggy' (and it indeed is a bit), so I'm thinking this may be related to the poor numbers. I'd rather stay on CM (or AOKP if they could fix their wifi problem...), I'm really, really, REALLY into soft nav keys and I wasn't able to disable the hardware Menu/Back keys on the Samsung ROM.
Any suggestions?
So I have a regular I9300, and I've been playing with ROMs (hopefully I'll soon be a honest S3 hacker and able to develop apps and other hacks ), and testing Quadrant on them.
I've been getting wildly different numbers from ROM to ROM, in fact I'm so intrigued about them, I thought I'd share them with you.
All of these tests were done at least twice to confirm numbers, I'm posting the most relevant results.
Stock Samsung 4.1.1 ROM:
5341 (CPU 12715 / Mem 4640 / IO 6414 / 2D 1000 / 3D 1938)
Omega Samsung 4.1.2 ROM: very variable, so I'm going to post several results, look at the 2D and 3D numbers mostly:
6068 (CPU 13136 / Mem 4538 / IO 9508 / 2D 971 / 3D 2189)
5736 (CPU 12570 / Mem 4457 / IO 8185 / 2D 1014 / 3D 2453)
5847 (CPU 12820 / Mem 4407 / IO 9742 / 2D 667 / 3D 1599)
So, it seems that the 4.1.2 ROM does something to IO that largely improves its performance. I don't have a SD card in my S3, if it helps. Is it the same for everyone..? These nice numbers? As for 3D, I don't know why these numbers tend to be so different from one run to another.
CM 10.1 is set with soft nav bar, and disabled hardware keys, nav bar is ~40 dp so the resolution is a bit smaller.
CM 10.1 Performance Governor: 3840 (CPU 8743 / Mem 2360 / IO 5428 / 2D 208 / 3D 2459)
CM 10.1 Ondemand Governor: 3682 (CPU 8765 / Mem 2299 / IO 5076 / 2D 102 / 3D 2170)
CM 10.1 Pegasusq Governor: 4496 (CPU 12503 / Mem 2419 / IO 4851 / 2D 197 / 3D 2510)
CM 10.1 Pegasusq Governor (first run I made): 4388 (CPU 11626 / Mem 2107 / IO 4941 / 2D 178 / 3D 3088)
I'm only posting the last because the 3D number is so huge... 3088?! And indeed it shows when running the benchmark: the planet scene is extremely fluid, whereas it was a bit jerky in the Samsung ROMs.
Other than that, it seems that CM 10.1's performance sucks when it comes to IO (twice slower than 4.1.2 Samsung), Memory (twice slower) and 2D (on average 5 times slower!!) GLBenchmark numbers seem to be similar to the Samsung version though. (Haven't tested much -- it's too long to run...)
It's really annoying, because I pretty much love CM apart from these benchmark numbers. The 'known issues' for CM 10.1 + S3 do say that the 'UI is laggy' (and it indeed is a bit), so I'm thinking this may be related to the poor numbers. I'd rather stay on CM (or AOKP if they could fix their wifi problem...), I'm really, really, REALLY into soft nav keys and I wasn't able to disable the hardware Menu/Back keys on the Samsung ROM.
Any suggestions?