Mobile Linpack vs Breaking Limit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobile Linpack
This application provides a benchmark for measuring the floating-point operations per second (flops) of devices. It is used to solve systems of linear equations and is a standard for ranking high-performance computing systems.
- Measures floating-point operations per second (flops)
- Solves systems of linear equations
- Benchmark for high-performance systems
- Standard for supercomputer ranking
- Device performance testing
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Linpack is the most popular benchmark for ranking of supercomputers and high performance systems by performance. General idea of Linpack benchmark is to measure the number of floating point operations per second (flops) used to solve the system of linear equations. Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world is based on the Linpack results.
Breaking Limit
This app is a cross-platform graphics benchmark that uses raytracing technology to compare performance across mobile and desktop devices. It includes various tests and uploads results to an online scoreboard for ranking.
- Cross-platform graphics benchmark
- Raytracing technology
- Raytraced Shadows and Reflections
- Official benchmark tests
- Customizable settings
- Online scoreboard comparison
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Breaking Limit is a true cross-platform graphics benchmark for mobile and desktop platforms, enabling effortless comparison of graphics performance across various devices by utilizing the same workload. It leverages cutting-edge Raytracing technology, including Raytraced Shadows and Reflections. The results obtained by running the Official benchmarks are uploaded to Powerboard online scoreboard. There, you may compare your results against others and see where you rank. Included Tests: - Official: The main benchmark that uses standard settings. - Official Native: Uses the same content and settings as Official, but uses device’s display resolution as the rendering resolution. - Custom: Uses the same content as Official, but allows users to change settings from the default ones used in Official.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mobile Linpack at fortnightly against Breaking Limit's every 10 months. Mobile Linpack also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mobile Linpack ships an update fortnightly, Breaking Limit every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mobile Linpack | Breaking Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 407 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Dmitry Nikitenko | Basemark |
Customer experience
Mobile Linpack
Breaking Limit
In-app purchases
Mobile Linpack
No in-app purchases
Breaking Limit
No in-app purchases
Questions
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