Special Guest Post by Jason Liang, CTO and Co-founder & Saniya Anand Quality Lead of Bunch.Live
Bunch offers players the ability to video chat with friends while playing games on a mobile device. Not only does the app offer first-party game content that players can launch right away, but also it supports third-party games that players love, such as BrawlStars and Call of Duty Mobile.
GameBench Labs regularly conducts confidential performance tests for its clients. Occasionally, and with the explicit consent of those clients, we will publish those results for the benefit of the gaming community. This article is one such example where Huawei, a GameBench client, has allowed the results of commissioned tests to be shared.
DISCLAIMER: Huawei is a GameBench client, like many device and game makers, and it sent us pre-release devices and a list of popular Tencent games to test. However, Huawei had no control over our test methodology, results or performance ratings, which are standardised across all our testing projects.
If you've been following the launch of the P40 Pro, you might have spotted that this new Huawei phone sports a 90Hz display rather than the 60Hz that is typical of iPhones and older Androids. A quicker refresh rate is potentially of interest to gamers, promising smoother and more responsive gameplay, but only if games actually animate consistently at this higher speed. And that's a big 'if'.
In fact, ever since the first 90Hz and 120Hz phones started coming out a couple of years ago, we've found that the overwhelming majority have failed to maintain their marketed rates of animation for any length of time, particularly in high-fidelity competitive games that would benefit most from the technology. The optimisation between hardware and software just wasn't there.
Fortunately for gamers, the P40 Pro is different. It achieves our GameBench Ultra 90 badge with both Game for Peace and QQ Speed, reflecting solid 90fps animation even after prolonged gameplay. Read on to see our test data.
We've seen smartphones promising >100fps gaming before, but Nubia's new handset is the first we've benchmarked that actually delivers stable 144fps gameplay in a real-world scenario. With its Snapdragon 865 chipset and active cooling, this phone offers some blistering frame rates at 90Hz and 60Hz too -- take a look at our frame rate stats below!
If you have ever wanted to measure the CPU Usage of a mobile app or game and you are stuck, then read on to find out how this can be achieved.
The fundamental goal of any app or game is to provide a great experience to the user. For games, frames per second is a good measure of this. When your game is not able to provide a good experience you are naturally curious about resource usage in your system. It could likely be that the game is bottlenecked by either the CPU/ GPU or memory bandwidth. These three fundamental areas are the first stop when looking to identify performance issues. Let’s look at how to measure CPU Usage in both Android and iOS devices.
In the world of mobile gaming, there can be no doubt that performance matters. It's no coincidence that top studios like Supercell and King make games that run smoothly even on older and weaker devices! Being able to optimize a game for the best possible user experience across the widest possible range of hardware is key to commercial success.
The GameBench Pro Desktop App gives studios the ability to manually record test sessions and capture performance metrics that can analyzed in our Web Dashboard by development teams to diagnose issues and/or optimize performance of games on any device.