Our speed hungry friend coolbho3k who recently revealed that the G2 has been overclocked to a stable 1344MHz, has even more recently released a YouTube video of the device running benchmarks at a staggering 1420MHz!
As most of you know, the T-Mobile G2 comes stock with an 800MHz processor. Seeing the hardware pushed safely to these kinds of extremes is absolutely amazing. In the video below, you can see that the benchmark score of the overclocked G2 comes in at 2390 which for reference, my N1 running CM6 and clocked to the highest speed allowed only scores 1393. Not so impressive to see a phone boxed stock with a 1GHz processor have circles spun around it by a device of supposedly lesser performance. You can also see that he runs the benchmark application Linpack which comes in just under 50 MFLOPS which normally runs about 32 to 33 MFLOPS on a stock G2.
Check out the impressive video below.
How do you all think the new 1GHz Qualcomm processor under the hood of the upcoming T-Mobile myTouch 4G will stack up once it receives the same treatment as above?
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Very cool! I still wish we could get root though. Speed is nice but I want more. I’m needy.
Ditto!! We need root to realize the full potential of all the custom ROMs out there. The community seems to have gone quiet about the status of rooting the G2.
Ill give a +2 on that one. Once there is permanent root and CM6 can be loaded that phone will be off the hook!
What, with the things CM does to devices? You’ll be barely pushing 300 in your beloved Quadrant benchmark if you do (ask Dream CM 6 users how much faster CM made their phones).
Also, as most PC gamers know, synthetic benchmarks are anything but indicative of real-world performance. In this case, the Vibrant scores higher only because of it’s GPU, all other parts being equal or inferior to the MSM 7230
It barely passes the Vibrant in a quadrant score. Once you apply the Lag fix and clock the Vibrant at 1Ghz, It gets scores similar to the G2 which in this Video, is Rooted, Overclocked 420Mhz past the Vibrant, and running 2.2 firmware.
Sad…Vibrant Owns
I’m quite unsure about HTC for the time being. I had a lot of faith in their devices, until the G2 fiasco. Makes my issues w/ the Vibrant seem minor, if not insignificant.
The Vibrant has been plagued with issues, four people that I work with have it and since the update it has be disastrous, freezing, not syncing, shutting off, not receiving notifications etc. One of them already went and got the G2 yesterday and is loving it, he swore by the Vibrant before he got the G2.
They made a big mistake. The Vibrant performs so much better.
I find it amusing how the G2 can barely beat the Galaxy S’s, which runs on 2.1, quadrant score when overclocked AND running froyo…
Barely beat the Galaxy S? I was showing scores higher than the N1 2.2 before overclocking and now OC’ed it is almost twice that of the N1 2.2
I agree with pjhnson. I buddy of mine ran quadrant tests on his vibrant which is just simply rommed, no lagfix and his quadrant scores were =<900 and as stated it has a 1ghz processor. IMHO the video is very impressive for a phone that everybody complained that the hardware was lacking compared to recently released devices.
If I didn’t know any better, I could swear dude’s smoking a fatty…
Just curious isee the speeds …but what about the battery life…the main reason why the g2 was clocked at 800MGZ
According to the creator of SetCPU, the battery life isnt affected that much. In the video he states that he has been using the phone all day and it is almost full
Could be a lie to make people believe the G2 is much better than it really is.
I have love for everything Android, but my vibrant benchmarks 2270 at 1ghz. The G2 is definitely a nice phone, but speed-wise I’m not impressed
Pretty good.
My vibrant gets higher than 2200 also.
Well with the Lag Fix.
At least my PHONE isnt burning .
Pretty good.
My vibrant gets higher than 2200 also.
Well with the Lag Fix.
At least my PHONE isnt burning .
There is a reason he chose 1420, as someone else alluded to in another post……cough cough AHEM cough cough
so the OC guy … you overclock the phone….and you will use the overclocked phone around your head? this is no a so good ideea, the cpu from the phone are not cooled, and the phone dont have any air intakes. the battery will be less that stock, it’s simple physics, if the cpu work at higher speed will need more power. (will not need more if the cpu was from the start/stock underclocking).
the battery is the bad part in any phone/mobile device
Thats really funny thou because once I applied the lag fix for my Vibrant and clocked it at 1000Mhz, it recieved scores of 2200 +….Shame, now imagine what the scores will be if i clocked my Vibrant at 1.4Ghz or 1420Mhz, can you say 2500+. Its funny because the G2 is recieving a boost because its on the 2.2 firmware.
My Vibrant:
1Ghz
OCLF (One Click Lag Fix)
2.1 Eclair
Quadrant Scores of 2200+ everytime.
There, there…
Two years and you’ll be able to make things better…
Wow! The stock G2 already blows away the Vibrant in a subjective test, can’t imagine how good the new MyTouch will be.
Is this any like the placebo G1 “overclock”? I wonder…Since the SOC is the same as the one on HTC Ace (1Ghz), I saw the 1Ghz overclock coming, but 1.4?…. Guess people have to run thorough benchmarks at all speeds above stock.
jubeh,
That youtube vid was made by the creator of SetCPU. It is not a hoax whatsoever.
Of course the creator of SetCPU would claim that his app will yield these magnificent results.
I still remember back with the Dream 768 Mhz fiasco that they said that you could only overclock with his app and that any other overclock would not work. If you ask me, that sounds like the app reports to Quadrant beneficial figures so that it scores higher.
Eventually, it was tested in real-world scenarios and it was found that there was no increase in performance whatsoever past ~56x Mhz, so the number reported was just that, a number.
For all the people that think that this score barely beats the Galaxy S with the lag fix: That lag fix is nothing more than caching IO writes to memory. The quadrant benchmark isn’t pushing enough writes to hit the limit of the cache, and so while the G2 is getting scored on write to flash speed, the Vibrant is getting scored on write to RAM, which could be 10 to 100 times faster. If the G2 had the same caching scheme to fool the benchmark, it would be getting scores over 3500. The Galaxy S with 2.2 doesn’t benchmark as well as people had thought, but still feels faster. I have used both phones, and the G2 definitely feels faster.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s/200261-2-1-lagfix-v-froyo-2-2-benchmark-test.html
One of the user at http://smartphonebenchmarks.com hit 2699! He did it by overclocking it to 1.5GHz+. MSM7230 apparently is a GREAT overclocking chip.