But we’re still impressed.
He’s got a cute name and one speedy lil Droid. Tasmanian_droid, a forum user over at Alldroid, has overclocked his Droid’s 550MHz CPU to 1.3GHz. He’s reporting it to be 100% stable at 800MHz and is still pushing it further.
He’s breaking records and recording it all using two different Android apps, BenchmarkPi and Linpack. He recorded the highest scores the Motorola Droid has seen thus far, 2078 in BenchmarkPi and 10.848 Mflops /s in Linpack. While these scores are very impressive, they are still shadowed by scores being reported by Nexus One users running CyanogenMOD v5.0. According to Android and Me, they are recording Linpack scores that are 64% faster and BenchmarkPi scores that are half the Droids’ and lower is better.
Android and Me reported that even though the Droid and the Nexus One have different processors (TI OMAP3430 550 MHz and Qualcomm QSD8250 1 GHz), they are both based off the ARM Cortex-A8 core design. Apparently the huge gap in speeds is due mainly to the new JIT (just in time) compiler for Dalvik that was included with CyanogenMod v5.0.
Sweet, nonetheless… 😉
Source: Android and Me, Alldroid
