Guides

Phone performance, explained

Practical, plain-English guides to understanding benchmark results: what the numbers mean, why phones slow down when they get hot, and how to test fairly.

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What is thermal throttling? Why phones slow down under sustained load
Thermal throttling is how a phone protects itself from heat by lowering its clock speeds. Learn why performance drops under sustained load and how to spot it.
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FPS vs frame time: what your GPU benchmark numbers mean
FPS counts frames per second; frame time measures how long each frame takes. Learn how they relate, why average FPS hides stutter and how to read min and max FPS.
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How to run a fair phone benchmark
A practical checklist for reliable phone benchmark results: start cool, close apps, avoid charging and heat, keep settings the same and run more than once.
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Why GPU utilization shows N/A on some Android devices
Android has no standard public API that tells apps how busy the GPU is. Here is why per-app GPU utilization is often unavailable and why MobiBench shows N/A.
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Phone performance, explained

What is thermal throttling? Why phones slow down under sustained load

FPS vs frame time: what your GPU benchmark numbers mean

How to run a fair phone benchmark

Why GPU utilization shows N/A on some Android devices