HTC One preview: Take two

HTC One benchmark performance

The HTC One comes with a brand new Snapdragon 600 chipset, which packs four 1.7GHz Krait 300 CPU cores. The same chipset is used by the LG Optimus G Pro, so let's see how they stack up.

The BenchmarkPi shows a significant single-core performance boost over the older Krait cores (like in the HTC Butterfly and Sony Xperia Z). The HTC One adn Optimus G Pro are basically equal, however.

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

• LG Optimus G Pro
  147
• HTC One
  151
• Sony Xperia Z
  264
• HTC Butterfly
  266
• Oppo Find 5
  267
• HTC One X+
  280
• LG Optimus G
  285
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  305
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  330
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  350
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  359
• Meizu MX 4-core
  362
• Nexus 4
  431

The HTC One performed closer to phones with the old Krait cores than the Optimus G Pro in Linpack.

Linpack

Higher is better

• LG Optimus G Pro
  743
• HTC One
  646
• Sony Xperia Z
  630
• HTC Butterfly
  624
• LG Optimus G
  608
• Oppo Find 5
  593
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  214.3
• Nexus 4
  213.5
• Meizu MX 4-core
  189.1
• HTC One X+
  177.7
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  175.5
• HTC One X
  160.9
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  141.5

The all-in-one Quadrant and AnTuTu benchmark scores are impressive adn have the HTC One and LG Optimus G Pro trade victories.

AnTuTu

Higher is better

• HTC One
  22678
• Sony Xperia Z
  20794
• LG Optimus G Pro
  20056
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  15547
• Oppo Find 5
  15167
• HTC Butterfly
  12631

Quadrant

Higher is better

• LG Optimus G Pro
  12105
• HTC One
  11746
• Sony Xperia Z
  8075
• HTC One X+
  7632
• LG Optimus G
  7439
• Oppo Find 5
  7111
• HTC One X
  5952
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  5916
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  5450
• Meizu MX 4-core
  5170
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  4814
• Nexus 4
  4567

The Snapdragon 600 chipset still uses the familiar Adreno 320 GPU (it's the 800 that upgrades to Adreno 330), but the higher clock speed used in the HTC One does make a difference. It's enough to put it at the top in terms of raw power - GLBenchmark 2.5 always runs at 1080p resolution regardless of the physical resolution of the screen, which makes comparison easier. But unlike most other phones, the HTC One needs it as 1080p is its actual screen resolution.

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

• HTC One
  34
• Asus Padfone 2
  31
• Oppo Find 5
  30
• Sony Xperia Z
  29
• LG Optimus G
  29
• Apple iPhone 5
  27
• Nexus 4
  26
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  17
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  15
• HTC One X+
  12
• HTC One X
  9

We also run some browser test with the stock web browser - HTC needs to do some more optimizations here as the HTC One came behind older phones with slower cores in both SunSpider (which measures JavaScript performance) and BrowserMark 2 (which evaluates HTML5 performance).

SunSpider

Lower is better

• Samsung Ativ S
  891
• Apple iPhone 5
  915
• Nokia Lumia 920
  910
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  972
• HTC One X+
  1001
• LG Optimus G Pro
  1011
• Motorola RAZR i XT890
  1059
• HTC One
  1124
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1192
• Meizu MX 4-core
  1312
• LG Optimus G
  1353
• HTC Butterfly
  1433
• Sony Xperia Z
  1906
• Nexus 4
  1971
• Oppo Find 5
  2045

BrowserMark 2

Higher is better

• LG Optimus G
  2555
• HTC One
  2262
• Sony Xperia Z
  1865
• Oppo Find 5
  1797
• Nexus 4
  1794
• Nokia Lumia 920
  1774
• Nokia Lumia 820
  1760
• Samsung Omnia W
  1632
• HTC Butterfly
  1475
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1247

Overal the HTC One is blazing fast in terms of CPU and GPU performance and will handle any app without breaking a sweat. The web browser performance leaves something to be desired though.