Posted in: Android, Hands-on, Mobile phones

The HTC One comes with a brand new Snapdragon 600 chipset, which is the first to offer four 1.7GHz Krait CPU cores and we were pretty curious to find how much of a performance boost it brings.

To be honest we were taken by surprise by the HTC One processing prowess. We did expect it to deliver some of the best performance out there, but some of the scores were simply amazing.

The BenchmarkPi score that the HTC One posted made us want to pinch ourselves. The smartphone topped the previous best result (courtesy of Sony Xperia Z) by more than 100ms.





Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

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 also took the first place in the multi-threaded Linpack test, although the margin of its victory wasn’t as big here.

Linpack

Higher is better

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 were as impressive as it gets – HTC One continued its clean sweep, comfortably beating the other devices we have tested so far.

AnTuTu

Higher is better

HTC One

22678

Sony Xperia Z

20794

Samsung Galaxy S III

15547

Oppo Find 5

15167

HTC Butterfly

12631

Quadrant

Higher is better

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

We also run some browser test with the stock web browser – the HTC One took the second place in the BrowserMark 2 test, while a few phones turned out to be better on the Java-script SunSpider benchmark. Obviously HTC still needs to work on optimizing its browser, but even so the performance is close to the best out there.

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

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

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

It seems the HTC One and the Snapdragon 600 platform are the new Benchmark champion, topping even the just released Xperia Z flagship. If raw power is what you are after, this should be the smartphone to look forward to.