Samsung Samsung Galaxy S 4 Benchmarks

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Android Authority ran Geekbench 2 on the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 last week and posted the

. I thought it would be interesting to see how the Samsung Galaxy S 4 compares to other popular smartphones.

I've charted the Geekbench 2 scores for the Samsung Galaxy S4 along with several Android phones, the iPhone 5, and the BlackBerry Z10. If you're not familiar with Geekbench 2, higher scores are better.

Some things to consider when looking at the results:

• It's clear that the Samsung Galaxy S 4 will be the fastest smartphone available when it is released in April. What's not clear is how the Galaxy S 4 will handle the increased power and cooling requirements that generally come with faster processors.
• The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is twice as fast as the Samsung Galaxy S 3. Given that the Samsung Galaxy S 3 is less than a year old, that's a remarkable achievement. I am amazed at how quickly smartphone technology is improving.
• The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is also twice as fast as the Apple iPhone 5. Apple has improved performance dramatically in the past (there was 2.5x increase in performance from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5). Will they be able to make a similar improvement for the next iPhone?
• The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is also twice as fast as the BlackBerry Z10. However, unlike the Galaxy S 3 and the iPhone 5, the Z10 launched this year, not last year. Will BlackBerry feel compelled to release an updated handset with a faster processor sooner rather than later?
• Android Authority only tested the Samsung Galaxy S 4 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 SoC. We have no idea how the Samsung Galaxy S 4 with the new Exynos 5 Octa SoC will perform, but given how the different Samsung Galaxy S 3s performed I imagine the Geekbench score will be similar.
• Both the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S 4 use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 SoC, although the HTC One runs at a slower speed (1.7 GHz vs. 1.9 GHz). The HTC One is also running an older version of Android (4.1.2 vs. 4.2.2), so the HTC One's performance should improve slightly once it is on the latest version of Android.

Again, I'm amazed at how quickly smartphone performance has improved. We've gone from the original iPhone with a Geekbench score of 130 to the Samsung Galaxy S 4 with a Geekbench score of 3100 in only six years.

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[DKT27]

Nice. :)

Some things to consider when looking at the results:

• It's clear that the Samsung Galaxy S 4 will be the fastest smartphone available when it is released in April. What's not clear is how the Galaxy S 4 will handle the increased power and cooling requirements that generally come with faster processors.
• The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is twice as fast as the Samsung Galaxy S 3. Given that the Samsung Galaxy S 3 is less than a year old, that's a remarkable achievement. I am amazed at how quickly smartphone technology is improving.
• The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is also twice as fast as the Apple iPhone 5. Apple has improved performance dramatically in the past (there was 2.5x increase in performance from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5). Will they be able to make a similar improvement for the next iPhone?
• The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is also twice as fast as the BlackBerry Z10. However, unlike the Galaxy S 3 and the iPhone 5, the Z10 launched this year, not last year. Will BlackBerry feel compelled to release an updated handset with a faster processor sooner rather than later?
• Android Authority only tested the Samsung Galaxy S 4 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 SoC. We have no idea how the Samsung Galaxy S 4 with the new Exynos 5 Octa SoC will perform, but given how the different Samsung Galaxy S 3s performed I imagine the Geekbench score will be similar.
• Both the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S 4 use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 SoC, although the HTC One runs at a slower speed (1.7 GHz vs. 1.9 GHz). The HTC One is also running an older version of Android (4.1.2 vs. 4.2.2), so the HTC One's performance should improve slightly once it is on the latest version of Android.

• It's easy, 4 full powered cores + 4 low powered, power optimized ones.
• Blame the Moore's Law for that (/s :P ). Just joking. Moore's Law probably has nothing directly to do here. They are, however, making good use of technology available.
• Yes, Apple will. Reason? Unlike the rumoured breakup, Samsung are still making chips for Apple and will continue to make.
• BlackBerry doesn't exist in my books. Those supporting the overpriced, spineless BB phones need to get over it.
• That's sad. This probably makes this benchmark useless - the main thing we want to see is Exynos, not already seen Snapdragon.
• I doubt 1.7GHz vs 1.9GHz and Android 4.1.2 vs 4.2.2 is the clear reason here - S4 might be better optimized overall.

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Almost 200% improvement over S3 :huh:

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It's the Qualcomm 600, it's very powerful and these results don't surprise me looking at last year's Qualcomm's dual-core results vs the quad-cores, where in some benchmarks the results were very close and in others it even beat the quads. I don't think the exynos will be more powerful, on the contrary.

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It's the Qualcomm 600, it's very powerful and these results don't surprise me looking at last year's Qualcomm's dual-core results vs the quad-cores, where in some benchmarks the results were very close and in others it even beat the quads. I don't think the exynos will be more powerful, on the contrary.

Perhaps its because Sammy just slaps reference cortex A15 cores while Qualcomm has considerable experience in developing SoC, modems & what not so its not a fair assessment to judge an ARM licensee against a well established chipmaker B)

If its any consolation Sammy is still the only vendor with a working A15 chip, since Nexus 10 last year, besides the only other one to release such a product will be Nvidia(Tegra4) nearly ~2yrs after the A15 microarch was unveiled <_<

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If its any consolation Sammy is still the only vendor with a working A15 chip, since Nexus 10 last year, besides the only other one to release such a product will be Nvidia(Tegra4) nearly ~2yrs after the A15 microarch was unveiled <_<

I was not so impressed with the tegra3 either, not compared to qualcomm's krait. I think nvidia knows how to create a hype but fails to deliver. For now I'll stick with qualcomm devices, I know them to be powerful and also very energy efficient