First benchmarks for Samsung Galaxy S4 have started to show up in tech reviews from the day one after unveiling the phone. For a flagship phone of the season, they are understandably awesome. Now, with Samsung entrenched policy of manufacturing a different SGS4 for every region, these benchmarks are also vary very much:
Varying performance of Samsung phones offered for different markets is nothing new. What is new here is about 20 % difference in performance: US models of SGS4 are significantly less powerful.
Of course, Samsung USA would tell you that US SGS4 models are plenty powerful, and their customers won't notice anything. Well, for the time being, they are mostly right. But what will happen when Key Lime Pie upgrade will start to roll out nobody knows.
CNX software puts these benchmarking results into a perspective: for comparison, Nvidia Tegra 4 in reference tablet shows AnTuTu score of about 36,000. However, Tegra 4 is not really a chip for phones, it's more like a tablet powerhouse. Then again, if approximation offered by AndroVM holds some water, nothing beats x86 chips in tablets still: for x86, AnTuTu score of 91,000 is measured.
On the other hand, some relative embarrassment of SGS4 in US could be avoided if US SGS4 models would be based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 which shows quite decent AnTuTu of 32,146:
Sure, it's at 2265 MHz clock which may eat through the phone battery way too fast.
AnTuTu scores of about 16,000 for Samsung Galaxy S3 (Samsung Exynos 4412) may help to put SGS4 into another perspective, especially for those who consider upgrading from their older (Samsung) phones. AnTuTu scores of about 21,000 are measured for HTC One.
In the end, it should be also noted that benchmarks like AnTuTu, Quadrant, even GLbenchmark may have quite a little relation to a customer perception of powers of his/her device.
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