The terrain used for the flyover is deliberately difficult to render specifically so that the GPU will need to work hard for each frame. This test is designed to push the GPU to its max.

Why 4? Because it took me 4 versions to get it right!!! It is a terrain flyover that yields a frame per second score for a pre-programmed pass over a rendered world. The Exynos 7420 puts in a strong performance coming in second place and the Exynos 8890 comes in third. The Kirin 960 scores the top score and is basically way ahead of the rest of the field.

The maximum score is now 10800, and it now looks like I will need to built a third revision as a Huawei processor has maxed out this version as well. So I revamped the benchmark and doubled the number of water particles flowing during the 90 second test. The Kirin 950 is an octa-core processor that includes 4 Cortex-A72 cores, clocked at 2.3GHz, four Cortex-A53 cores, clock at 1.8GHz, an ARM Mali T880 GPU and Huawei’s i5 co-processor. My first iteration of this benchmark became obsolete in February this year when the Huawei Kirin 950 maxed out at 5400 drops of water, over a 90 second period at 60 fps. The benchmark measures how many droplets are actually processed and how many are missed. Two drops of water are added every frame and the game is designed to run at 60 frames per second. The complexity of so many droplets of water will exercise the CPU. The idea here is that while the GPU will be used slightly for the 2D graphics, most of the work will be carried out by the CPU. The second of my two custom benchmarks uses a 2D physics engine to simulate water being poured into a container.

Not bad considering that it only has two high performance cores (2 x Cortex-A72) and the rest of the cores use the Cortex-A53 design. While the MediaTek Helio X25 didn’t do too well under AnTuTu or with the Geekbench multi-core test, it certainly has shone in the Geekbench single-core tests as well as the Vellamo benchmark, and now my first benchmark. However the surprise result here is the MediaTek X25, which came in second. My first custom benchmark reflects what we saw earlier with the Kirin 960 coming in first followed by quick times from the Exynos 8890 and the Snapdragon 821.

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