√ Dual core drag race: LG Optimus 2x, HTC Sensation or Samsung Galaxy S II

Dual core drag race: LG Optimus 2x, HTC Sensation or Samsung Galaxy S II

If you are in the market for a dual core phone, it means for some reason or other you want the fastest phone money can buy. So, lets start there which is the fastest?

Hardware.

The LG Optimus 2x

Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, ULP GeForce GPU, Tegra 2 chipset
512MB RAM

HTC Sensation

Dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm MSM 8260 Snapdragon chipset
768MB RAM

Samsung Galaxy S II

Dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, Mali-400MP GPU, Orion chipset
1GB RAM

Synthetic Benchmarks. Our favorite source of mobile phone information, GSM Arena has benchmarked the LG Optimus 2x, the HTC Sensation or Samsung Galaxy S II.

In five out of six benchmarks the Samsung Galaxy S II is the fastest, with a tie with the HTC Sensation in one benchmark. As against the LG Optimus 2x, the Samsung Galaxy S II rules all the benchmarks.

Galaxy S II versus Sensation (won-loss-draw): 5-0-1
Galaxy S II versus Optimus 2x: 6-0-0

So the Galaxy S II is king. Who comes in second?

The LG Optimus 2x beats the sensation in four out of six benchmarks, the HTC Sensation taking one benchmark and forging a tie in another.