Over the past few months we have seen a few references to the HTC Glacier.  Many speculated that it would be HTC’s first Dual-core Android phone and the leaked benchmarks looked as if they could back that up quite nicely.  We don’t mean to busts any bubbles, but it looks like the HTC Glacier is [...]

We’re still not 100% sure that the upcoming HTC Glacier will actually feature a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, but new investigative work by AlienBabelTech seems to be pretty convincing.  Last week they were able to unearth benchmark scores for the HTC Glacier which were much higher than HTC’s current Android handset’s running on Qualcomm’s 1GHz single-core processors.  The benchmarks themselves didn’t indicate which processor was powering the HTC Glacier, but the assumption was made that HTC was using Qualcomm’s new dual core technology. 

The GPU score on the HTC Glacier is about 87% of the score of the Samsung Galaxy S using the PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. Samsung has stated that the Hummingbird processor is capable of processing up to 90 million triangles per second (MTPS). For confirmation on that watch this Samsung Galaxy S keynote video around the 3:45 mark. Now here’s an interesting fact: Qualcomm states that the QSD8672 can process up to 80 million triangles per second. So what’s 80 MTPS divided by 90 MTPS ? The answer is around 88% which is almost the same percentage of performance from the above result.

What we have here is still pure speculation, but we want to thank AlienBabelTech for crunching the numbers.  We’ve known for a long time that HTC is planning something special for Project Emerald.  And if you ask us, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor is definitely something special. 

Source: AlienBabelTech

The HTC Glacier (a previously unknown handset) has recently been spotted on GLBenchmark’s website.  Not much is known about the new handset except for its screen resolution (800 x 480 pixels) and its GLBenchmark Pro 1.1 scores (1432 frames).  The scores themselves are not anything revolutionary since it falls right below the Samsung Galaxy S, but we would like to point out that the HTC Glacier’s score is nearly three times higher than those posted by the HTC EVO 4G.  Due to the significant performance boost, AlienBabelTech is speculating that the HTC Glacier may be running a dual-core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor. 

AlienBabeTech is also making the assertion that the HTC Glacier may also be the rumored Project Emerald that is supposed to hit T-Mobile in early November.  The benchmark scores were uploaded to GLBenchmark’s site by a T-Mobile USA employee.  We know that T-Mobile has a few new HTC handsets set to launch this fall, but only Project Emerald is expected to be equipped with a dual-core processor.   

Source: AlienBabelTech