Page 6 : Overall & Gaming Performance, Our Verdict & Award

Overall Performance

AnTuTu is a nice benchmark for testing various performance aspects of Android devices.

	HTC 10	Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro	honor 5C	Samsung Galaxy S7 edge
TOTAL SCORE	113813	68184	53417	131246
3D SCORE	50700	18360	9842	40824
– 3D (Marooned)	34778	10739	5795	23336
– 3D (Garden)	15922	7621	4047	17488
UX SCORE	30890	23464	19297	42765
– UX Data Secure	6319	5356	5577	8169
– UX Data Process	3379	3235	2706	5966
– UX Strategy Games	5433	5601	4109	10745
– UX Image Process	9521	6240	3144	13878
– UX I/O Performance	6238	3022	3761	4007
CPU SCORE	21915	19872	19254	37882
– CPU Mathematics	8494	5953	4198	11831
– CPU Common Use	5931	4830	5947	10875
– CPU Multi-Core	7490	9089	9109	15176
RAM	10308	6488	5024	9775

The HTC 10 did well in AnTuTu, coming in only 13.3% slower than the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, and is roughly twice as fast as the Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro and honor 5C smartphones.

It was particularly strong in the 3D test, particularly the Marooned test, in which it best the Galaxy S7 edge by 50%, and was 3X faster than the Galaxy A9 Pro, and an astounding 6X faster than the honor 5C.

 

Gaming Performance – 3DMark

We tested the HTC 10’s gaming performance using 3DMark, using the Ice Storm Unlimited test.

	HTC 10	Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro	honor 5C	Samsung Galaxy S7 edge
Gaming Score	23171	16989	11560	28650
Graphics	27514	21800	11067	33685
Physics	14925	9585	13698	18810
Graphics Test 1	136.6 fps	120.7 fps	63.4 fps	162.9 fps
Graphics Test 2	106.4 fps	78.0 fps	38.8 fps	133.1 fps
Physics Test	47.4 fps	30.4 fps	43.5 fps	59.7 fps

The HTC 10 is fast in 3DMark, thanks to the fast Qualcomm Adreno 530 GPU. It was just 19% slower than the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, which features the faster ARM Mali-T880 GPU. The HTC 10 will definitely have no trouble handling any 3D game in the market, even at the full screen resolution of 1440 x 2560.

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Our Verdict & Award

The HTC 10 may not be quite the perfect 10 smartphone that HTC hoped it would be, but it comes pretty darn close. It has a really bright and sharp 5.2″ display, with a sleek full-metal chassis. All that is powered by the really fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 with 4 GB of LPDDR4 memory and 32 GB of internal flash memory.

It can handle anything and everything you throw at it and then some. Our benchmarks show that it is the fastest smartphone in our arsenal for work applications, and second-best to the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge in 3D games.

The HTC 10 smartphone also boasts a really good 12 MP UltraPixel 2 main camera. It’s called UltraPixel for a good reason – it uses a sensor with really large pixels. The results are quite impressive – high detail resolution and low noise. The only downside – it has trouble controlling overexposure.

The overexposure problem extended to its video recording performance. But we have to point out that this is one of the few smartphones to record 4K videos without any time limit. What will really blow you away though is the richness of the audio recorded by its video. Thanks to its support of Hi-Res Audio, the recorded audio is truly a head above the competition.

If there is a major flaw with the HTC 10, it would be its relatively short battery life. If you are an avid Pokemon hunter, or take a lot of videos, you would do well to pack a power bank. The good news though is that the HTC 10 recharges extremely fast. You can recharge it from 20% to 100% in just over 81 minutes!

Overall, this is a great come-back effort by HTC, and one worthy of our Reviewer’s Choice Award. Congratulations, HTC!

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