Measure performance and identify problems

Tablets and smartphones are quickly becoming the most important everyday computing devices. In fact, for people who aren’t PC gamers or don’t need to use an office suite, there are few reasons to own a laptop or PC these days. In a pinch, you can even use something like the Samsung DEX and turn your phone into a desktop computer for a while.

The only reason this is even possible is because the processors and graphics chips in our mobile devices are now desktop class when it comes to performance. Well, not current desktop class. Just good enough to run desktop-grade apps like an office suite, full web browser, etc.

Thanks to this focus on performance, we’ve seen the emergence of many benchmarking apps and tools over the past decade. These allow you to run tests on your device and then see how well it did.