3DMark is a cross-platform mobile benchmark app

Back when Futuremark released their first benchmark for Windows PCs I was more interested in watching all the great effects and graphics that it shipped with than at my score. While it was nice if my computer beat the score of my friends who used to run the benchmark as well, I was not really that concerned about the artificial score and more interested in how games actually played on my PC (not that well most of the time).
Futuremark released 3D Mark yesterday, a cross-platform mobile benchmark application for Android, iOS and Windows 8 devices. You can use it to benchmark your mobile device, see how it compares to comparable devices and even against devices on different operating systems.
First thing you need to do is download and install the app. Be aware that it is rather large, with 283 Megabytes on Android so make sure you download it while you are connected to a Wi-Fi network to speed things up.
The start screen provides you with a couple of options, including running the Ice Storm or Ice Storm Extreme benchmark on your system. The latter is even more taxing than the former, so expect a lower score and lower framerates on this one.
The loading of the benchmark takes some time and the performance itself depends on the device you run it on. It ran fine on my Samsung Galaxy Note II even though I noticed some frame rate drops every now and then. A score is displayed in the end, 3219 for my device, and details about that score are shown as well. Here you see details about the graphics and physics score, as well as how many frames per second your device got each individual graphics test.
If you scroll further down on that page, you see how your device compares against other devices of its category. Here the overall score that was achieved in the benchmark and a star rating are displayed. The listing here is limited and you may want to open the larger device channel listing linked on the apps' frontpage instead.
Many devices are faster than the Note II, beating the performance score by three. At the top are the Aquos Phone Zeta, the Pantech Vega R3 and the HTC One, all with a score higher than 10,000 points and a five star rating.
Here is a video demo of the benchmark.
The benchmark may provide users who like to test new firmware versions and tweaks on their system to see if they can get the maximum fps and performance out of it. It is also great for comparing cross-platform devices but that is certainly only interesting to magazines and websites that test many mobile devices.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.