Nokia N8 Benchmarks

The N8 will be Nokia's first Symbian device with a hardware graphics accelerator since the N82. While some current Symbian phones (Omnia HD, Satio and Vivaz) already have a graphics accelerator, they are hindered by the fact that S60v5 wasn't designed to make use of powerful hardware. Symbian^3, on the other hand, is fully capable of taking advantage of the N8's GPU, and I've got the benchmarks to prove it.

Speedy Go!:
Speedy Go! is an application designed to improve the performance of Symbian phones using its accelerator. The application comes with a speed test utility, which can help to compare the performance of different devices. The test gives a measure of the overall speed of the phone. You can see an example below, showing the Omnia HD against the N97:

Here's the result for the N8, with the Speedy Go! accelerator off and accelerator on:

As you can see, the N8's unaccelerated 'phone speed' is 54% greater than the Omnia HD and 180% greater than the N97. Impressive, wouldn't you agree? (Thanks to MyNokiaBlog for pointing out my incorrect maths)

Note: The Speedy Go! test was conducted on the N8 firstly with 10 widgets running on the homescreen (five on the first page, five on the second and none on the third page). In that test, the N8 scored 777. The above screenshot was taken with 4 widgets on the homescreen. Please also keep in mind that this is a prototype N8; the software is not finalised. There's still plenty of room for improvement.

FPC bench 3D:
EDIT: After some trial and error, the graphical compatibility issues have been bypassed and I can now show you a screenshot of the N8's results for FPC Bench 3D.

As you can see, all the results are at 60fps. This is because the benchmarks only go up to 60fps. I'll need to find a more challenging benchmarking application, I suppose ;)

In the video below, you can see how the N95 8GB and N97 handle the same test. The results are shown at around the 6-minute mark.

I'm sure many of you have read opinions from people who've used the N8. Now that those opinions have been substantiated with benchmarks, how do you feel about the N8?