HTC 10 Performance Review: A Snapdragon 820 Powered Flagship

Name: HTC 10
Brand: HTC

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, April 14, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT

Next up we have GFXBench, which has been one of our standard mobile graphics performance benchmarks for quite a while now. In order to ensure V-sync and resolution aren’t limiting factors, we will compare Offscreen test results here.

We also ran with Futuremark's 3DMark benchmark, which has been a staple 3D graphics benchmark here across all mobile and desktop platforms for many years. In this case we're running 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, which is targeted for mobile devices and also runs at 720p in offscreen mode, so as to take display resolution out of the equation. We also tossed Basemark X into the mix, which is another cross-platform graphics benchmark.

GFXBench And 3DMark Ice Storm Benchmarks

Android Gaming And Graphics Benchmarks

In GFX Bench, the HTC 10 and its Snapdragon 820 with Adreno 530 graphics put up some excellent numbers, and lead the pack along with Samsung's latest devices.

3DMark Ice Storm, tells a somewhat different story, though this test is more and more CPU limited with the latest flagship smartphones. Here, the HTC 10 slots in just behind the Galaxy S7 Edge, but the deltas separating the devices are relatively small.

The HTC 10 faltered in the Basemark X benchmark. Here, it trailed competing devices by a relatively large margin. It should have performed right in-line with the S7 considering the two devices have the same SoC and graphics engine, but no matter how many times we tried the HTC 10's score always fell within the 32K - 33K range.

Tags: Android, smartphone, HTC, htc 10, snapdragon-820

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com