To give you an idea of the kind of power the T-Mobile G2 (HTC) has, I ran a few benchmarks and used the Samsung Fascinate for comparison. A lot of people judged the G2 before it came out, looking down on its 800MHz processor. I guess those people didn’t realize that the G2 uses a newer version of the Snapdragon system-on-a-chip (MSM7230) that features a newer GPU (Adreno 205). (It’s also made with a lower die process for better power efficiency.) This article is mainly for the idiots that littered the Internet with phrases like, “Oh noes!!! Only 800MHz?!? That’s teh suxxorz!!!”

To be clear, comparing the G2’s numbers to the Fascinate’s isn’t completely fair since the former uses Android 2.2 and the latter uses Android 2.1. I wanted to use a Fascinate since it, along with its Galaxy S brethren, sports the most potent CPU/GPU combo currently on the market. I used Greene Computing’s Linpack and Aurora Softworks’ Quadrant benchmark tests. Each test was run five times and the scores were averaged. Here are the results.

Linpack

T-Mobile G2: 33.267

Samsung Fascinate: 8.009

Quadrant

T-Mobile: G2: 1,668

Samsung Fascinate: 880

Again, those results are kind of apples and oranges since the phones use different Android versions. That said, the G2 was beating the crap out of the HTC Nexus One — with Android 2.2 — on those same tests. That phone uses a 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8250 with an Adreno 200 GPU. I suppose there are some morons that rather have that version of Snapdragon since 1GHz is higher than 800MHz. *bang head*

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