The gaming effect of the iPhone has always been the top symbol of the mobile phone, while the Android configuration is fragmented, directly resulting in four or five data packets for a game. Although each data packet corresponds to a GPU texture format, which should maximize GPU performance, in fact, Android games have been at a disadvantage for a long time, and there is a big gap between Android and iPhone in terms of special effects, model details, and fluency. However, with the development of Android to four cores, will the game effect be very different from that of iPhone?
testing environment
IOS: iPhone 5, system 6.0.1
Android: Galaxy Note II, system 4.1.1
Games: NBA 2K13, Wild Racing 7, Top Speed 17, Wild Blood
It is estimated that the reason for choosing the iPhone 5 is needless to say. As one of the most powerful players in the iPhone, it is also the top player in game special effects, thanks to the super powerful SGX543MP3 high-frequency version of the iPhone 5. This GPU is the most powerful one in the phone, while the resolution of the iPhone 5 is not very high, so it will not be a problem to deal with all kinds of large-scale games.
It may be controversial to use Galaxy Note II on the Android platform. Some people may ask, why not use the Adreno 320 device? Adreno 320 is indeed the most powerful GPU for mobile devices on the Android platform, with extremely aggressive performance, which is basically at the same level as the high-frequency version of SGX543MP3. However, the support for special effects of the Adreno series GPUs in the current large-scale games is really a little poor, and we can't play our due strength at all. Therefore, our use performance is also in the forefront. The game special effects support the best Mali400MP4 high-frequency version for testing.
For the performance and compatibility of mainstream GPUs, see the author's previous articles 。
Hard to hard performance
First, let's see the GPU performance comparison of these two products. GLBenchmark 2.5 scores, It can be seen that the SGX543MP3 is still much more than the Mali400MP4 high-frequency version Apple products have been leading the GPU performance since the iPad 2, which also provides sufficient hardware support for Apple devices in large-scale games.
Galaxy Note II
iPhone 5
NBA 2K13
The special effect of this game depends on the details of players' characters, bench players, ground reflection, etc. As can be seen from the screenshot, The special effects of iPhone 5 and Galaxy Note II are basically at the same level, but the ground reflection effect of the latter is better.
Galaxy Note II， Click to open the large picture.
iPhone 5， Click to open the large picture. (Pay attention to the difference of ground reflection)
Wild Speed Racing 7
The special effect of this game depends on the reflection of the car body, the model fineness of the car body and the details of the scene. The performance of iPhone 5 and Galaxy Note II is very good, but the image of iPhone 5 is brighter, and the car body is more reflective.
Galaxy Note II， Click to open the large picture.
iPhone 5， Click to open the large picture. (Pay attention to the difference of body reflection)
Top Speed Car 17
The special effect of this game depends on the fineness of the car body, and the dynamic blur of the screen after nitrogen acceleration. Both levels are basically the same.
Galaxy Note II， Click to open the large picture.
iPhone 5， Click to open the large picture.
wild blood
This game depends on the fineness of characters and scenery, as well as the special effects of smoke in the scene, The picture quality performance of the two is also consistent.
Galaxy Note II, click to open the large picture.
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iPhone 5， Click to open the large picture.
The following are game demonstration videos for the two devices.
iPhone 5
Galaxy Note II
summary
From the performance of the above high-end games, Android devices at the Galaxy Note II level can already compete with iPhone in game image quality Some games even perform better on special effects. However, in terms of fluency, some games will have frame dropping. This is due to the GPU performance, and the other is the optimization of the game manufacturer. With the emergence of sub era products such as Exynos 5250, they have brought Android a super high level of GPU such as Mali-T604. When such chips are popularized, it is believed that Android will have more capital to compete with iPhone.
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