When I previously ran the performance test on a couple of Google Nexus Ones and a T-Mobile MyTouch 4G running CyanogenMOD CM7, the tests were run using all default CPU settings to compare the optimizations using the standard CPU speeds. Some people reached out and asked how the performance compares when overclocking is used on the devices. The results shown below summarize the performance using the built in CPU overclocking of CyanogenMOD CM7.
We’ve also tested a second MyTouch 4G running the stock ROM to give even more comparison results for you to see.
Google Nexus One:
Google Nexus One
The results running a stock Google Nexus One are:
Android Version: 2.3.3
Kernel: 2.6.35.7
Build Number: GRI40
Quadrant: 1089
Smartbench 2010: Productivity-992 Gaming-984
Smartbench 2011: Productivity-1156 Gaming-707
Here are the results for the Google Nexus One using the latest nightly build of CyanogenMOD CM7:
Android Version: 2.3.3
Kernel: 2.6.37.2
Build Number: GRI40
The CPU Governor is set to Performance and each device is plugged into power for all these tests.
| Mhz | 998 | 1036 | 1075 | 1113 |
| Quadrant: | 1158 | 1517 | 1472 | 1567 |
| Smartbench 2010: |
Prod: 894 Gam: 1077 |
Prod: 988 Gam: 1141 |
Prod: 1023 Gam:1220 |
Prod: 1038 Gam: 1231 |
| Smartbench 2011: |
Prod: 948 Gam: 810 |
Prod: 969 Gam: 914 |
Prod: 1229 Gam: 922 |
Prod: 1054 Gam: 992 |
We see varying results at different CPU speeds and very unexpected result for Quadrant with the CPU set to 1036 Mhz.
T-Mobile MyTouch 4G:
T-Mobile myTouch 4G
The results running a stock T-Mobile MyTouch 4G are:
Android Version: 2.2.1
Kernel: 2.6.32.21
Software Version: 1.17.531.2
Quadrant: 1762
Smartbench 2010: Productivity-775 Gaming-1145
Smartbench 2011: Productivity-1014 Gaming-1117
Here are the results for the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G using the latest nightly build of CyanogenMOD CM7:
Android Version: 2.3.3
Kernel: 2.6.32.28
Build Number: GRI40
The CPU Governor is set to Performance and each device is plugged into power for all these tests.
| Mhz | 1017 | 1113 | 1209 | 1305 | 1401 | 1497 | 1516 |
| Quadrant: | 1962 | 2258 | 2281 | 2478 | 2535 | 2703 | 2770 |
| Smartbench 2010: |
Prod: 1154 Gam: 1665 |
Prod: 1220 Gam: 1775 |
Prod: 1215 Gam: 1834 |
Prod: 1286 Gam: 1907 |
Prod: 1401 Gam: 2128 |
Prod: 1517 Gam: 2154 |
Prod: 1566 Gam: 2254 |
| Smartbench 2011: |
Prod: 990 Gam: 1292 |
Prod: 1073 Gam: 1402 |
Prod: 1131 Gam: 1462 |
Prod: 1588 Gam: 1555 |
Prod: 1342 Gam: 1604 |
Prod: 1379 Gam: 1740 |
Prod: 1426 Gam: 1702 |
As you can see, the results are more in line with the CPU setting unlike the Google Nexus One where the performance did not increase, but instead decreased in some of the tests. As we have no control over how the software benchmarks your devices, we cannot vouch for any of their results.
I hope this gives you more background into the overclocking performance of these devices and CyanogenMOD CM7 and if you have any benchmarking requests, please let us know and we’ll do what we can to accommodate your requests.
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Glad to see you went back and did a test with CPU boosted. Those results look pretty well in line with what I’ve gotten out of quadrant.
Have you considered adding NENAmark?
There are many benchmarking tools available, so it’s hard to use everything. I’ll look into different ones next time and I’ll be sure to check out NENAmark.
Thanks for the feedback
try it again with the phones unplugged. I don’t know about the htc devices,but my fascinate gets about half performance with it plugged in,even set to performance in setcpu.
Also note that the mytouch 4g has a newer snapdragon processor versus the Nexus one’s first gen snapdragon!
I don’t know what you are doing because I consistently get around 2700 in quadrant on mytouch 4g.
What about trying a different kernel? I am running the latest from redstar on XDA and I’m clocking in between 1856-1899 on quadrant at 1113. One guy even hit 2001. I dont like the stock CM7 kernel.