Smartphones are increasingly powerful thanks to the evolution of their processors and graphics processing units. The consumer seeks more and more power and resources to execute applications, but especially games. Today we are going to reveal a method to find out the performance of a game on Android .
When we say to find out the performance, we refer to obtain the statistics of use of the resources during its execution and even the FPS . This in desktop devices is very simple, but when we make the jump to Android smartphones, things get a bit complicated.
Lately the smartphones designed specifically for playing are appearing. If we add to this that game development companies are giving more and more importance to mobile platforms, we can already imagine that in a few years time the quality of mobile video games will reach unsuspected levels.
Get performance data of a game with the GameBench application for Android.
There are users who want a specific mobile in order to play one or several specific games. Video games for Android and other mobile device platforms are increasingly demanding with the hardware. Because of this, it can be very useful to find out if a game will work on a device fluently before buying it .
In this tutorial we will measure the performance of an Android device , for which we will use the GameBench application. We have chosen this app because it does not need root rights, it offers free use time and most importantly, it is the only one that shows us the FPS (frames per second) of the games.
We know that there are other more famous and free applications to perform benchmarks, for example Antutu . The problem with using these applications is that they do not give us a realistic view of the power of the device when running a game.
How to install GameBench on your Android device.
Completing the installation of GameBench is a bit more cumbersome than usual, but it's still simple. Once the GameBench app is installed from Google Play, the following steps must be followed:
- It is necessary to register on the official website https://www.gamebench.net .
- From a PC , we access with our user account at https://web.gamebench.net/instructions/android/3 and download the Java file.
- Activate the Android device developer options. This is achieved from the "Settings" menu, then select "About the device" and press 10 times on the number of decompilation .
- Access the developer options and activate the "USB debug mode" .
- We connect the smartphone to the PC via USB and run the program in Java.
With the previous process we have activated the "Access to use" permission for the GameBench application. Now we just have to run the application on the mobile and select the game on which we want to do the performance test .
Information and limitations of GameBench.
When we perform a test on a game, we have to launch the game from the GameBench app itself . We see that it gives us data on CPU usage, RAM usage, battery consumption, FPS, performance graph, GPU usage, etc.
All this information will help us assess whether the device has the necessary power to run the game. But there is a limitation of this application that you should know and is that it only allows you to use it for 30 minutes a month . It may seem like a short time, but to do a performance test in five games it comes to us.
On the other hand, it has the advantage that the results of the tests are saved in our account, so we can access this data at any time.