The HTC Desire 700 dual sim packs a quad-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. The chipset is made by a company we are not so familiar with - Spreadtrum. Their Shark chipset uses Cortex-A7 cores as opposed to the Cortex-A5s on the Desire 600's Snapdragon 200, so we expected its performance to be around the same mark as the one of the Snapdragon 400.
The four cores run at 1.2GHz each. The Spreadtrum Shark also includes the now ageing Mali-400 GPU alongside 1GB of RAM.
The Cortex-A7 cores aren't the best performers out there so we don't expect much from the Spreadtrum Shark in the following series of benchmark tests. Still, these cores should be able to outperform the Cortex-A5 cores in the Snapdragon 200 easily.
Single-threaded performance was quite disappointing - the Desire 700 dual sim even came behind the Desire 600 dual sim.
Benchmark Pi
Lower is better
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 166
Sony Xperia Z 264
HTC Butterfly 266
Oppo Find 5 267
HTC One X+ 280
LG Optimus G 285
HTC One mini 293
Samsung Galaxy Express 346
Sony Xperia C 374
Motorola Moto G 392
Sony Xperia M 400
Samsung Galaxy S II Plus 409
Sony Xperia L 435
Samsung Galaxy S III mini 499
Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 519
Sony Xperia go 543
HTC Desire 600 dual sim 554
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 578
Samsung Galaxy Core 578
HTC Desire X 639
Sony Xperia E dual 800
Samsung Galaxy Young 831
GeekBench is a compound benchmark, which tests memory speed in addition to CPU performance. Here, the Desire 700 dual sim got the last place. The least we can say is it didn't fare well against its Snapdragon 400 competitors.
Geekbench 3
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 2937
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 2670
Sony Xperia Z1 2638
Apple iPhone 5s 2561
LG Nexus 5 2453
LG G2 2243
HTC One 1972
HTC One Max 1899
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 1869
LG Optimus G 1623
Meizu MX3 1579
Huawei Ascend P6 1315
LG Nexus 4 1288
HTC Butterfly 1257
Motorola Moto G 1120
Sony Xperia C 1079
Oppo R819 1047
HTC One mini 887
Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 564
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 310
AnTuTu put the HTC Desire 700 dual sim slightly below the One mini and above the Desire 600 dual sim and the Galaxy Ace 3.
AnTuTu
Higher is better
HTC One 22678
Sony Xperia Z 20794
Motorola Moto G 17214
Oppo Find 5 15167
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 14518
Sony Xperia C 13948
HTC Butterfly 12631
HTC One mini 11434
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 11370
HTC Desire 600 dual sim 11203
Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 10448
Sony Xperia M 9902
Sony Xperia L 9746
Nokia Lumia 620 9140
Samsung Galaxy Core 7408
Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 6650
Quadrant gave the Desire 700 dual sim the boot, placing it with the smartphone ending light-years behind smartphones that are much cheaper than it like the Motorola Moto G.
Quadrant
Higher is better
Motorola Moto G 8508
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 7153
HTC One mini 6048
Sony Xperia V 5816
HTC Desire 600 dual sim 5053
Samsung Galaxy Express 4998
Sony Xperia C 4941
Sony Xperia L 4279
Sony Xperia M 4147
Samsung Galaxy Core 3240
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 3219
Samsung Galaxy Core 3152
The new Basemark X tests a little bit of everything but since we have only used it on flagship devices so far, the Desire 700 dual sim never stood a chance of getting anything but the last spot in our results table.
Basemark X
Higher is better
LG Nexus 5 985
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 961
Sony Xperia Z1 Compact 931
LG G2 879
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 172
Because of the now-low-end Mali-400 that's running the graphics department in the Spreadtrum Shark, we had to reside back to the NenaMark 2 benchmark. Unlike mid- and high-end devices, the Desire 700 dual sim GPU didn't max out this test, but it still led the Adreno 203 by 18 frames.
NenaMark 2
Higher is better
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 56.0
HTC Desire 600 dual sim 38.8
Sony Xperia E dual 27.7
Samsung Galaxy Fame 26.9
HTC Sensation XE 23.0
Sony Xperia J 19.6
LG Optimus L7 19.3
Sony Xperia miro 15.9
Samsung Galaxy mini 2 15.4
HTC Explorer 15.1
Samsung Galaxy Y Duos 13.2
Samsung Galaxy Pocket 12.9
Samsung Galaxy Ace 12.0
To put the graphic prowess of the Mali-400 in perspective we performed the T-Rex 1080p offscreen test - the Desire 700 dual sim managed to pump out mere 3.2 frames per second, although chances are it will never have to face 1080p screens in real life.
GFXBenchmark 2.7 T-Rex (1080p off-screen)
Higher is better
Sony Xperia Z1 23
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 23
LG G2 22
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 17.1
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 17.1
Apple iPad 4 16.8
HTC Butterfly S 16
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 16
Google Nexus 10 13.9
LG Optimus G 13.9
Sony Xperia Z 13.5
Sony Xperia Tablet Z 13
Sony Xperia ZL 12.8
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 6.4
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 6.3
HTC One mini 5.6
Motorola Moto G 5.6
Samsung Galaxy Note II 4.9
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 3.2
Sony Xperia C 2.8
Epic Citadel delivered a very solid score for the Desire 700 dual sim, but you have got to bear in mind it runs at the native resolution - in this case 540 x 960 px so don't go rushing in comparing it to flagship phones, which have 1080p screens. It's still a good score from the Mali 400, showing why it's so successful years after its initial release in 2010.
Epic Citadel
Higher is better
Sony Xperia Z1 54.9
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 54.9
LG G2 51
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 49.5
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 37.2
Sony Xperia C 36.3
HTC One 35.6
Motorola Moto G 34
HTC Butterfly 29.6
Now it's time to move onto web performance testing. We start with the JavaScript benchmark SunSpider. Here, the HTC Desire 700 dual sim browser produced a mediocre showing, although it's about in line with what its specs sheet suggests. BrowserMark 2 and Vellamo told similar stories.
SunSpider
Lower is better
Apple iPhone 5s 403
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 587
Apple iPhone 5 694
Apple iPhone 5c 704
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 750
LG Nexus 5 827
Sony Xperia Z1 845
Sony Xperia Z1 Compact 855
LG G2 908
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 1046
HTC One 1174
HTC One mini 1375
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 1853
BrowserMark 2
Higher is better
Apple iPhone 5s 3549
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 3041
Apple iPhone 5 2825
Apple iPhone 5c 2799
Oppo N1 2769
LG Nexus 5 2745
LG G2 2718
Sony Xperia Z1 Compact 2600
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 2438
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 2419
Sony Xperia Z1 2398
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 2314
HTC One 2262
HTC One mini 2164
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 1354
Vellamo
Higher is better
Sony Xperia Z1 Compact 2996
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 2944
LG G2 2908
Sony Xperia Z1 2904
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 2853
Samsung Galaxy Note II 2418
HTC One 2382
HTC One mini 2252
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 2060
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 2056
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 2019
HTC Desire 700 dual sim 1264
The HTC Desire 700 dual sim obviously has problems with the benchmark performance at this stage. Barely beating Snapdragon 200 chipsets and their Cortex-A5 CPUs suggests that there's a lot of tuning still required. Good news is things aren't quite so dramatic in real life and the Desire 700 dual sim isn't terribly slow - in fact it's quite acceptable.
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