The cat is out of the bag that Nokia will be announcing its new Lumia 800 Windows Phone device tomorrow at Nokia World. We’ve seen pictures of the device formerly known as Sea Ray, but how will it perform against other new models like the HTC Titan and other high-end phones?
Well we have a source that has been kind enough to provide us with extensive benchmark results of the hotly anticipated new Lumia 800 and we’ve worked up some nice charts and graphs. After all, who doesn’t like graphs?
First we have the Sunspider 0.9.1 and BrowserMark results. These show browser performance as well as a basic idea of how the CPU performs against other models. You’ll notice that the marks honestly don’t look that impressive at first glance.
The reason that SunSpider and BrowserMark results are important as they will give you an overall picture of how well the browser performs in everyday tasks like Javascript and CSS transforms, which many popular websites use. A better number in these tests generally means a beefier CPU and a well-optimized browser that leads to a smoother overall experience.
Our source says that the benchmarks belie the actual performance of the Lumia 800, which is said to be ‘slick and smooth’ and ‘not laggy’. The device looks almost exactly like the Nokia N9 and there is no front camera:
In addition to the browser-based benchmarks, we also have CPU Integer and CPU Floating point results, as well as an overall CPU score, against an HTC Titan. These tests are more directly aimed at the hardware and can give us a picture of how processor-intensive tasks like editing and rendering photos, performing calculations for video editing and pushing raw data around are handled on a device.
The results here indicate that the Lumia 800 compares well against the Titan.
The results against the HTC Titan look incredibly well matched. This isn’t all that surprising in the memory read departments but it does give us an idea that the Lumia 800 might have a processor that is very similar in speed to the single core 1500 MHz MSM8255 that the Titan is packing.
It looks like the Lumia should perform as well as comparable Windows Phone devices like the Titan, but may fall behind when compared to dual-core Android and iOS devices. Of course, Windows Phone is another OS entirely, so we’ll have to get our hands on a production model and run extensive benchmarks and tests to tell exactly how these numbers translate to real-world performance.
The Lumia 800 is expected to be announced tomorrow morning at Nokia World by CEO Stephen Elop. You can see our rundown of what else to expect at Nokia World here.
The Lumia's use the same chip as the Titan, just clocked slower.
Also, this test is entirely INVALID, simply because using a javascript browser becnhmark of devices with entirely different javascript engines is stupid. They're not doing the same thing, and IE 9's javascript engine is naturally slower than iOS's and Androids. Comparing two entirely different engines running on entirely different hardware is the definition of a stupid test if you're trying to get a valid comparison of performance... if they were using the same javascript engine, then it'd more relevent.
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What is stupid about seeing how they stack up? In a perfect world, you would compare two devices with the same OS and the same engine...which is exactly what we did with the Titan and the Lumia in case you didn't notice.
However, consumers don't always make their choices within the same brand or OS of device, to pretend that they exist in a vacuum apart from other devices is just silly.
Thank you for pointing out that the chip is likely the same.
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LikeIt's daft because article says the javascript benchmarks give a rough idea of the CPU performance of these devices,compared to competing devices.
This is of course misleading because it doesn't, as the test actual highlights the difference in software of the JavaScript engines between the devices, rather than the CPU power. An iPhone 4S running IE 9s javascriot engine will perform notably worse than using Safari, and its nothing to do with the CPU. Subspider wasn't designed as a cross platform CPU benchmark, but as a JavaScript engine comparison :P Hence JS benchmarks should only really be used to highlight CPU differences only if they're running the same js engine. Ergo Titan vs the Nokia is fine.
The only thing you can really glean from this in respect of the Nokia device is that the Titan is faster, and IE 9 has a much slower JS engine than both iOS and Android which perform admirably well in those regards, but that's just a tiny part of the overall phone experience, and even then only a small part of the browser experience, as most of the fluidity and speed comes from the rendering engine and how the device handles panning and composition (on Windows Phone of course UI interaction is handled on an entirely different thread that's always guaranteed to run at consistent intervals, which is why it's so smooth and responsive).
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