Do benchmarks matter anymore?

[Alex Wetzel]

With phones becoming more and more powerful, is it even worth it to pay attention to how a new phone performs on say antutu or Geekbench?

Posted from the one and only Note 4

 

[Aquila]

Relative to other devices, no... unless they're abysmal. Running them is important, but the numbers don't matter at all unless something is obviously wrong.

 

[maclancer]

Benchmarks makes sense if you need a super device to do animation, special effects and video. Which means this makes sense in the PC workstation world but in the smartphone business, it does not makes sense anymore because even the cheapest phone can play videos and games. The only thing that matters in the mobile world is RAM... The more RAM, better multimedia handle device.

 

[Alex Wetzel]

I think that the snapdragon 800 series of SoC's was the point where the day to day performance benefits of each iteration weren't as drastic as they used to be.

Posted from the one and only Note 4

 

[LeoRex]

They have a limited use... They are a valuable tool for someone tweaking their kernel, etc. But overall, not much... To much volatility. I have a 6P, which one site said scored a 78k in antutu's. I scored a 93k. How's that possible if the benchmarks were reliable.

 

[Tech-Newb]

For general performance like browsing, chatting, playing light games most mid-high end even budget phones wont have really visible diffrence from 2015 phones.

Benchmark is only used how can the phone handle really demanding apps and heavy games. Not on general performance.

Back then in 2013 benchmark is still used to measure general performance. But starting 2014 the hardware can keep up with android demand easily in daily usage. So its not wise to use benchmark to measure what a phone can do in daily tasks.

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[LeoRex]

My particular issue with Antutu is that the number is nonsense.... They take a long list of tests, from CPU to storage I/O to graphical performance, score them independently then just add up the whole number as if that number gives an indication of the phone's 'speed'. How did they come up with that? How does a 'point' in a storage I/O test correspond to a 'point' when doing floating point operations... or the GPU scores? There is not direct equivilence... so Antutu just makes something up. At least something like GeekBench just sticks to straight up CPU benchmarks.

Still, arguing over synthetic benchmark scores is like arguing over which car has a lower coefficent of drag. To someone holding a phone in there hand, they aren't really going to care (or know) if the one they have has a slightly higher or lower Antutu score than the phone next to them. All they care about is how well the phone runs and that is something that doesn't really translate into any of those benchmarks.

 

[Sizzers]

As long as my phone does what I want it too I'm not bothered about the marks. Guess it may have some relevance for gamers but as I aren't one I ignore them.

 

[FiveOverEight]

Personally I don't care about benchmarks on a mobile device. I don't understand people who do.

As long as it functions what's the big deal? Do people really give a hoot what chip is inside? I doubt it,for the majority.

 

[Alex Wetzel]

Personally I don't care about benchmarks on a mobile device. I don't understand people who do.

As long as it functions what's the big deal? Do people really give a hoot what chip is inside? I doubt it,for the majority.

There's always that group of people who only buy the phone for it's specs and not some other reason like brand loyalty

Posted from the one and only Note 4

 

[crownybest]

anything with an antutu score over 45000 is ok for 99% of the things that you would do with it

 

[Ashtroid666]

I do not think it matters.
Your smartphone experience may differs, it is just numbers to impress people. Overall it's not really reliable.

 

[bitek]

For general performance like browsing, chatting, playing light games most mid-high end even budget phones wont have really visible diffrence from 2015 phones.

Benchmark is only used how can the phone handle really demanding apps and heavy games. Not on general performance.

Back then in 2013 benchmark is still used to measure general performance. But starting 2014 the hardware can keep up with android demand easily in daily usage. So its not wise to use benchmark to measure what a phone can do in daily tasks.

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True. Game like world of tanks runs better on my two year old ipad than on my Android phone