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

AnTuTu’s latest benchmark returns a number of metrics ranked as scores, rather than frame rates or time to complete. We tested with the latest version of AnTuTu across all platforms including Android, iOS and even Windows Phone. AnTuTu returns four top level performance metric results that we're including here: CPU, RAM, 3D, UX (or User Experience) along with a total score.

AnTuTu And Geekbench

General System, CPU and User Experiential Performance

The HTC 10 put up some interesting numbers in AnTuTu. Its CPU and 3D/GPU performance trailed the Galaxy S7 devices, but its RAM and UX scores are best-of-class. The UX score in particular is very strong, and mirrors what we felt when using the device -- it just feels fast, with fluid animations and lightweight skinning. When all of the scores are tallied, the HTC 10 comes in with the highest overall score of the pack.

GeekBench taxes only CPU cores in a handset (not graphics), with both single and multi-threaded workloads.

The HTC 10 falls right in between the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge in terms of single-core performance in Geekbench. Its multi-core result, however, trailed Samsung's devices by a few percentage points.

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