Well that's what I wanted to point out, all synthetic tests always claimed Snapdragon to be faster.
Unfortunately the truth is that it was not able to deliver and the bunch of cheap hardware HTC androids are what's keeping Android behind the iPhone regarding gaming quality.
This method of flooding the market with cheap hardware has run sony's UIQ smartphone platform into the ground, almost the same with symbian and has made winmo a quite unattractive platform for developers.
This is just my reason for never getting a device with a quallcomm CPU - they just don't live up to the promise.