Vellamo

Vellamo is designed to be an accurate, easy-to-use suite of system-level benchmarks for devices based on Android 2.3 forward. It began as a mobile web benchmarking tool that today has expanded to include two primary chapters: The HTML5 Chapter evaluates mobile web browser performance and the Metal Chapter measures the CPU subsystem performance of mobile processors.

Through a click-and-go suite of tests, Vellamo can rate things such as: scrolling and zooming, 3D graphics, video performance, memory read/write and peak bandwidth performance, and much more. Simply launching a chapter runs the full suite of tests in that particular chapter, providing the user with an overall performance score. That score can then be uploaded and compared to the scores of other devices.

The team at Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC), Qualcomm’s open source subsidiary, recognized the need to provide mobile users with a reliable guide for benchmarking their own devices. Using our own benchmarking expertise, Qualcomm created Vellamo.

As of September 20, 2012, the Vellamo app is available for free* from the Google Play. You’ll need to have an Android-based device for these tests to run.

When downloaded, Vellamo launches three different chapters.

• The HTML5 Chapter is a set of system-level web browsing tests. This series of tests evaluates many of the underlying systems within a device from graphics rendering and JavaScript to pixel blending and network stack performance.
• Adreno GPUs enable today's advanced graphical use cases with industry leading performance and power efficiency.
• The Metal Chapter is a set of discrete lower-level benchmarks around the CPU. This series of tests evaluates capabilities such as: CPU performance on integer and floating point operations, memory read/write and peak bandwidth performance, and memory branching speed.
• A series of “extra” tests cover a variety of mobile performance areas and are outside of the HTML5 and Metal chapters.

An aggregate score is then displayed. It also gives you the option of comparing your score with other Android devices that have been tested, so you can see how your smartphone or tablet stacks up.