“NERD WARS BEGIN!!!! Please let all of us get popcorn first”

though i would take a big shot of geddy lee on the add for the gnex

I don’t get why you keep saying “faster”. I could agree that most benchmarks aren’t representative, but look at the Vellamo Benchmark results, which “produces its scores directly from frame counters”, and shows the 220 scoring far higher in 2 tests, scoring more than 10 frames faster, and only falls behind in one one, where the 540 beats it by 0.24 frames (published on Anand Tech and Qualcomm site).  If not even that benchmark satisfies you, then either you’re talking about architecture, which is never going to be fully taken advantage of before obsolescence, or personal experience with a particular device, which is just irrelevant.

“Furthermore, the OMAP4′s dual A9 configuration is faster clock for clock than Qualcomm’s custom Scorpion cores.  Don’t assume.”

I didn’t, you did.  I know that Scorpion uses a 13-stage pipeline with in-order processing at the front end, and only 512KB L2 cache, compared to the A9′s fully OoO 9-stage with 1MB L2 cache.  But you just can’t help but look down on others, eh?  I know damn well that the benefit of the Scorpion architecture (which is admittedly older, inferior, and I don’t recall ever talking it up anyways) was that it allows independent operation, which can be used for power optimization, should HTC get the drivers properly tweaked.  The same kind of drivers which need to be independently considered for every GPU to ensure proper 2D acceleration, which the 540 didn’t have available.  You’re saying they will be in ICS.  Fine, but that’s not out now, is it.

I don’t get why you love the 540 so much.  Fine, enjoy it. I’m not the one deluding myself into thinking either of these phones are that impressive; I’ll consider getting the Rezound, keep it in good shape, then trade up for the first S4 or Tegra 3 chipset that comes out.  Just stop trying to convince me that lead is gold.

AMOLED screens do not color band, they have far greater color gamut than LCDs.  Like I said, if you see color banding on an AMOLED panel it’s due to software limitations, usually through forced 16 bit color for performance reasons.  IPS LCDs reduce banding but it’s still very much there.  Besides, the Rezound’s screen is a super LCD panel, that’s marketing for S-PVA which have among the best contrast for LCDs but poor color gamut.

Making a blanket statement isn’t going to convince anyone.  Do you have the slightest bit of evidence to support that?  Not to mention, the sgx540 was looked down on for lacking 2d hardware acceleration, which is arguably more important, since more mobile graphics focus 2d than polygons.  In terms of polygon processing, they’re rated about the same, (88 million/s for 220, “about 90″ for 540), but then, the Mali-400MP4 apparently is pretty terrible with polygons, and manages to get a lot of the best benchmarks anyways due to its memory/bandwidth and ability to chug through sprites.

I’m going to assume you don’t really know these chipsets.  But if you do, and just decided not to bother supporting your previous statement at all, then maybe you can actually point out some reasons.  The only good thing I’ve heard about the SGX540 is that it has a separate unit to help decode video, and therefore produces very smooth playback.  Since I don’t use my phones for video, I don’t think that’s much help.

AMOLED screens with PenTile have color banding.  I’ve been using them for years. I see banding.  TN LCDs also have banding, but IPS/PLS ones tend to be very good about avoiding it.  My Galaxy 10.1 has extremely little banding.