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Orlin Milinov, 24 November 2014

Undercover flagship


HTC Desire Eye review: Undercover flagship

  • Comments (56)
  • User reviews
  • Desire Eye

5. Performance
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, design and build quality, display
  3. 3. Controls, battery life, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, text input
  7. 7. Gallery, music and video players, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Web browser, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. HTC Desire Eye specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (56)

HTC Android

Performance

The HTC Desire Eye is powered by the now widely used Snapdragon 801 chipset. It utilizes the Krait 400 CPU with a maximum clock rate of 2.3GHz. The CPU is joined by a snappy Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM.

Our opening benchmark is GeekBench 3, which is a multi-thread CPU benchmark. The HTC Desire Eye did great and matched the best performers in our chart - the Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy S5.

GeekBench 3

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    3011
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    2925
  • HTC Desire Eye
    2911
  • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    2884
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    2860
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    2709
  • OnePlus One
    2663
  • LG G3 - EU version
    2563
  • HTC One (M8)
    2367

The new compound AnTuTu 5 benchmark however shows a rather underwhelming result - close to the rest of the recent Snapdragon 801 smartphones but still a step behind.

AnTuTu 5

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    46824
  • HTC One (M8)
    44020
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    43164
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    42460
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    40393
  • HTC Desire Eye
    40296
  • LG G3 - EU version
    39905

The Basemark OS II gives an overall CPU score to the chipset but also breaks down the single and multi-core performance of smartphones. The HTC Desire Eye matched the overall and CPU performance of the other Snapdragon 801-powered smartphones.

Basemark OS II

Higher is better

  • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    1222
  • OnePlus One
    1196
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    1181
  • HTC One (M8)
    1126
  • LG G3 - EU version
    1126
  • HTC Desire Eye
    1122
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    1120
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    1109
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    1082

Basemark OS II (single-core)

Higher is better

  • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    4031
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    2588
  • HTC Desire Eye
    2478
  • HTC One (M8)
    2428
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    2415
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    2216
  • OnePlus One
    2213
  • LG G3 - EU version
    2213
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    2114

Basemark OS II (multi-core)

Higher is better

  • OnePlus One
    10234
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    10063
  • HTC One (M8)
    9860
  • LG G3 - EU version
    9611
  • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    9604
  • HTC Desire Eye
    9495
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    9446
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    9332
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    8792

The HTC Desire Eye utilizes the same Adreno 330 GPU as the rest of the 2014 flagship gang. Unfortunately, the Desire Eye off-screen performance for some reason is behind the curve and its scores place it at the bottom of our charts.

GFX 2.7 T-Rex (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

  • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    44.6
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    41.7
  • HTC One (M8)
    28.4
  • OnePlus One
    28.3
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    27.8
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    27.7
  • LG G3 - EU version
    27.2
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    27.2
  • HTC Desire Eye
    23.4

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

  • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    18.6
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    18.5
  • OnePlus One
    12.1
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    12
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    11.8
  • LG G3 - EU version
    11.4
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    11.3
  • HTC One (M8)
    11.1
  • HTC Desire Eye
    10.3

The actual on-screen performance turned out better, just a whisker below the 1080p Snapdragon 801 devices. You will notice that QHD smartphones such as the LG G3 and the Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro occupy the bottom of the chart due to their high resolution screens being more taxing on the GPU.

GFX 2.7 T-Rex (onscreen)

Higher is better

  • HTC One (M8)
    30.1
  • OnePlus One
    30
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    29.3
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    28.1
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    26.4
  • HTC Desire Eye
    24.6
  • LG G3 - EU version
    20.5
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    19.5

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

  • OnePlus One
    12.9
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    12.7
  • HTC One (M8)
    11.9
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    11.7
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    11.2
  • HTC Desire Eye
    10.9
  • LG G3 - EU version
    7.2
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    6.9

The GPU-intensive BaseMark X benchmark also puts the HTC Desire Eye behind the Snapdragon 801 competition.

Basemark X

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    18684
  • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    18297
  • OnePlus One
    13129
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    12637
  • HTC One (M8)
    12396
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    11875
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    11744
  • LG G3 - EU version
    11552
  • HTC Desire Eye
    10249

The raw web browsing performance of the HTC Desire Eye is also quite uninspiring, the smartphone once again fell to the bottom of our charts in both the JavaScript Kraken test and the compound BrowserMark 2.1.

Kraken 1.1

Lower is better

  • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    4650
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    5351
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    6043
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    6072
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    6355
  • LG G3 - EU version
    6987
  • OnePlus One
    7008
  • HTC One (M8)
    10296
  • HTC Desire Eye
    11093

BrowserMark 2.1

Higher is better

  • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    3389
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 4
    2208
  • Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro
    1543
  • Sony Xperia Z3
    1533
  • LG G3 - EU version
    1474
  • Samsung Galaxy S5 (S801)
    1398
  • OnePlus One
    1339
  • HTC One (M8)
    1069
  • HTC Desire Eye
    1009

HTC Desire Eye is boasting a flagship Snapdragon 801 chipset that should give it enough raw power for everything. Unfortunately the GPU and web browsing scores turned out lower than expected, though not enough to give you troubles. The real-life performance is as snappy as it gets and we had no problems running whichever apps we tried. And if you don't like the performance of the default web browser, you can always opt for Chrome.

Next Page » 6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, text input
5. Performance
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, design and build quality, display
  3. 3. Controls, battery life, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, text input
  7. 7. Gallery, music and video players, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Web browser, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. HTC Desire Eye specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (56)

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