PDA Benchmarking On the Rise?
Posted by Chris Leckness on 01/13/06 in PocketPC
Pretty much any PC/Gaming enthusiast out there knows and lives by 3DMark. Futuremark’s program for testing a system’s graphic capabilities, 3DMark will often bring even the most power gaming system to its knees with stunning visuals and amazing lighting. The company has now released a mobile version, called 3DMark Mobile06. They also have another benchmark aimed at general system performance called SPMark Java06, again for mobile devices.
Sure, having some neat graphic demos to show off your 2700g is nice, but I don’t really think they’re necessary. Although a good tool for reviewers, you can’t really tweak a PDA to the extent you can a PC, nor is stress testing for stability so much of an issue. With that said, 3dmarkMobile is still a neat way of showing you what your little pda is capable in terms of graphics, although keep in mind that amazing graphics at a slideshow frame rate aren’t really amazing at all.
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While the first PDA usergroup that pops to mind is usually the business users, you’ve got to remember that there is a large (and growing) usergroup of PDA gamers. Software developers are also making more intensive PDA games than they used to. I think this is the main reason that reviewers want to include 3D benchmarks, to provide a good comparison point for this usergroup.
I still am not a huge fan of benchmarking software. Every type of benchmarking software i have used is Bias to certain setups and does not like other setups…for example, 3DMark loves AMD over Intel and will even score AMD higher when it is not necessarily a better processor or board. I have had first hand experience with this.
In the PDA world i would fear it would be bias to whatever unit it is designed on.