Motorola just showcased its first Intel-powered smartphone – the Motorola RAZR i. It is powered by an Atom processor clocked at the impressive 2GHz, a first for a mobile device. But has Intel gotten itself into another gigahertz race without seeing much benefit?
We ran a few benchmarks on the RAZR i after the presentation, here’s what we found out.
The chipset is still a Mefield design – like the Orange Sand Diego or Lenovo K800 or ZTE Grand X IN use. It has a single Saltwell core built on a 32nm process – so, if you were expecting the dual-core Z2580 that Intel announced a while back or a new 22nm Silvermont core, you’d be disappointed.
Single-threaded performance is nothing to write home about, at least that’s what the synthetic benchmarks tell us. The phone is fast and responsive when you use it, but the Atom scores lower than the dual-core Krait processor in the RAZR M.
Benchmark Pi
Lower is better
- Motorola DROID RAZR M
264 - Motorola Atrix HD
294 - HTC One S
306 - HTC One X
338 - Samsung Galaxy S III
344 - Motorola RAZR MAXX
402 - Motorola RAZR i
534
Linpack
Higher is better
- HTC One S
210 - Motorola DROID RAZR M
188.9 - Motorola Atrix HD
186.4 - Samsung Galaxy S III
177.1 - HTC One X
126.1 - Motorola RAZR i (single-threaded)
94 - Motorola RAZR i (multi-threaded)
91 - Motorola RAZR MAXX
51.2
Quadrant
Higher is better
- Samsung Galaxy S III
5365 - Meizu MX 4-core
5170 - Motorola DROID RAZR M
5126 - HTC One X (Tegra 3)
4842 - LG Optimus 4X HD
4814 - Motorola Atrix HD
4178 - Motorola RAZR i
4125
The JavaScript performance, however, is absolutely stunning. It’s just about as fast as we’ve seen a mobile device perform on SunSpider, with only Note II beating it (and that’s in no small part due to its Jelly Bean OS). We suspect the tables will turn when the Motorola RAZR i gets updated to Jelly Bean (the JB browser is quite a bit faster than the ICS one). General browser performance is excellent as BrowserMark shows, with the RAZR i lags behind only Samsung’s quad-core designs.
SunSpider
Lower is better
- Samsung Galaxy Note II
972 - Motorola RAZR i
1066 - Samsung Galaxy S III
1447 - Motorola Atrix HD
1647 - HTC One S
1708 - HTC One X
1757 - Motorola DROID RAZR M
1861 - Motorola RAZR MAXX
2136
BrowserMark
Higher is better
- Samsung Galaxy Note II
185034 - Samsung Galaxy S III
169811 - Motorola RAZR i
129562 - Motorola DROID RAZR M
113620 - Motorola Atrix HD
107535 - HTC One S
98435 - HTC One X
96803 - Motorola RAZR MAXX
92653
The chipset kept the same GPU as well, meaning the Motorola RAZR i has an old PowerVR SGX540 to rely on. It does perform slightly better than the same GPU on the TI OMAP chipset of the RAZR MAXX thanks to the 32nm process, which allows for higher clock speed, but the gain is minimal and can’t come anywhere near the performance of more modern GPUs.
NenaMark 2
Higher is better
- Motorola DROID RAZR M
61.1 - HTC One S
60.5 - Samsung Galaxy S III
58.8 - Motorola Atrix HD
56.7 - HTC One X
47.5 - Motorola RAZR i
38.9 - Motorola RAZR MAXX
36.9
Source : blog[dot]gsmarena[dot]com
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