Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt Performance and Benchmarks

Cherry Mobile has shocked the local tech scene by announcing the Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt. Php3,999 for a 7-inch tablet with an 1280 x 800 pixel resolution HD display, quad core processor and 1 GB of RAM almost unbelievable. The specifications sheet reads like a Asus Nexus 7 at less than a third of the price.

The biggest question mark in with the new Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt is the chipset and graphics processing unit (GPU). The Fusion Bolt has a 1GHz quad-core Actions Semiconductor ATM7025 processor paired with a Vivante GC1000+ GPU. How well does this combination perform.

Pinoytech Blog has benchmarked the Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt an the tablet and the performance is very good for a Php3,999 tablet, but really is better than dual core tablet but not as good as powerful  than a quad core tablets.

Antutu Benchmarks

Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt - 5665 points


The Samsung Galaxy Tab P3110 uses a dual core processor on a TI OMAP chipset with a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. The Google Nexus 7, has a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3.                          

Examining a breaking down of three key aspects of the Antutu benchmarks would show they key areas where the ATM7025 processor paired with a Vivante GC1000+ GPU fall short.


Samsung Galaxy Tab P3110

CPU integer - 1358
CPU float point - 1102
3D graphics (1024 x 600) - 1085


Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt

CPU integer - 1313
CPU float point - 901
3D graphics (1280 x 800) - 1513


Google Nexus 7

CPU integer - 3679
CPU float point -2692
3D graphics (1280 x 800) - 2874

The quad core ATM7025 processor really does not perform better than a dual core unit. The dual core 1 GHz TI OMAP on the Samsung Galaxy P3110 is actually one of the slower dual core options on th market.

The Vivante GC1000+ GPU actually fairs pretty well. It does 40% better than the PowerVR SGX540 GPU on the Samsung Galaxy P3110 despite having to push 60% more pixels. Roughly the  Vivante GC1000+ GPU is twice as powerful as the PowerVR SGX540 GPU.

My advice, is don't look a gift horse in the mouth. If you compare the Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt to a Google Nexus 7 which costs more the than three time more, the Google Nexus 7 is more than twice as fast. But you should not expect the same performance for a third of the price.

If you compare the Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt to a Samsung Galaxy P3110 which will cost you more than twice as much, the Fusion Bolt looks to be a much better value for money option.


Update: Apparently, the Cherry Mobile Fusion benchmarks cited above was the result of pre-production firmware. An independent test score the Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt at 12042 points. 
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8 comments:

  1. UnknownFebruary 20, 2013 at 10:45 AM

    Nice article. I've been eyeing this tab right after they've announced it. I hope it handles Shadowgun well.

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    1. UnknownFebruary 24, 2013 at 11:45 AM

      Looking at the benchies and some other comments regarding the Venus lite, I guess this won't satisfy my gaming needs. I guess I'll go and save up for the engage 7hd or the nexus 7 instead.

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  2. patrickFebruary 20, 2013 at 2:22 PM

    They outsmarted Samsung Galaxy Tab P3110 (w/c is P9,800 in the current market). Excited enough for the release.

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  3. frederatorFebruary 22, 2013 at 9:34 PM

    My only concern though is the build quality and the after sales support. Cherry Mobile is known to have poor customer support. I hope they have addressed this issue now.

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  4. frederatorFebruary 22, 2013 at 9:40 PM

    I am an avid follower of this blog by the way though I have a tiny niggle. Your insights are great but please do a quick review of your articles first before posting them. I'm seeing a lot of typos and wrong grammar here and there, otherwise the content is good. Just a constructive criticism, I hope you don't mind. Keep the articles coming. :-)

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2013 at 10:37 AM

    Why did you delete my comment? Is it because your results are flawed? I only said that your scores for the Galaxy Tab 2 are too low for the Antutu benchmark. You could have edited the results posted, but you really had to delete the comment. Pffft. - CARLO

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    1. UnknownFebruary 27, 2013 at 1:25 PM

      It's weird, because I get a 7.2k score on stock Touchwiz Jelly Bean, while I got 5.8k when it was still ICS. Those people must be running tests with a ton of stuff in the background.

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  6. JBJJune 11, 2013 at 12:14 PM

    Be aware that fusion bolt does NOT include driver for connecting to windows PC nor OTG cable(you can buy that in CDR-KING for 60php). Neither are there drivers or support on CM's website!

    I have one here and got very dissapointed when I discovered this, since in all reviews I have read the OTG cable was included. Also appearntly the reviewers have not tried connecting to PC and transfer files - shame on them!

    Also you can forget about using your old USB modem if its not in the support list. I tried to get my Huawei E1552 to work for the last 9 days. Tried all tips and tricks there is to find on the net.

    Regarding the drivers, you can download a flashing tool from here and it contains the drivers according the the OP.

    http://calcunico.blogspot.com/2013/04/latest-firmwares-for-cherry-mobile.html

    CM Fusion bolt is a re-branded Ainol Novo 7 tablet. You wont find the drivers on Aino's (Ainol) website either, and there the name of this tablet is not Venus, but Myth.

    Shame on CM for the lack of support.

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