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Galaxy S 4 Dominates In Early Benchmark Testing

Posted by timothy on from the competition-is-grand dept.

redkemper writes with an excerpt from BGR.com of interest to anyone in the market for a new phone: "Samsung's Galaxy S 4 might not offer much in the way of an exciting new exterior design, but inside, it's a completely different story. The retooled internals on the U.S. version of the Galaxy S 4 were put to the test by benchmark specialists Primate Labs and the results are impressive, to say the least. The Galaxy S 4 scored a 3,163 on the standard Geekbench 2 speed test, just shy of twice the iPhone 5's score of 1,596. That score was also good enough to top the upcoming HTC One, the Nexus 4 and the previous-generation Galaxy S III."

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  1. Re:But not the Z10? by Junta · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean like they did, right in the article? It comes up just shy of iPhone 5.

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  2. Re:funny thing is by niftydude · · Score: 5, Informative

    sgs 3 is better than iphone5 in that chart

    The international sgs 3 is better, the US sgs 3 isn't.

    I was never sure why samsung put a slower soc in the phones that went to the US.

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  3. Re:iPhone is not cutting edge by alen · · Score: 5, Informative

    the CPU and GPU in the iphone 5 were cutting edge for 2012.
    i'm playing Real Racing 3 and the graphics are about as good as the xbox

    MHz or GHz speed has never been a good predictor of actual processing power. Intel sold 4GHz CPU's 10 years ago. the 2GHz ones they sell now are A LOT faster

    cpu/gpu architecture and the having the software actually take advantage of the hardware features will give you better performance than paper specs

  4. Re:iPhone is not cutting edge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This couldn't be more untrue. The newest iPhones always are in the top of the pack when it comes to CPU performance and they always have had cutting edge GPUs.

  5. Re:funny thing is by olsmeister · · Score: 5, Informative

    The faster Samsung processor used in the international versions didn't work with the 4G LTE that we have in the States.

  6. Re:funny thing is by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Qualcomm's "Snapdragon has good in-package support for cellular flavors in common use in the US. As can be seen in the wikipedia list, that puts them in quite a few US-release phones, even from people like Samsung who have their own SoCs.

  7. Re:Cyanogenmod not on Galaxy S4 by Riddler+Sensei · · Score: 5, Informative

    CyanogenMod is posting across social networks that this is just the opinion of some of the devs, but is not the stance of project.

    Found on G+ just now:

    Let’s start with the simplest form of this: CyanogenMod does not pre-announce support or lack of support for devices. Ever. Even for the Nexus 4, we did not announce support until a nightly build was available. Further, any announcement regarding the ‘dropping’ of device support will be communicated via this Google+ page, Twitter, Facebook, our blog, or a combination of those; it will not be something buried in a forum post.

    This morning, a comment from a CM collaborator on XDA was taken to be as an ‘absolute’ in regards to support of the S4. He offered the opinion of four TeamHacksung maintainers, their frustrations and lack of interest in supporting the S4. What’s seemingly lost on those reading this is that his comments as an individual do not speak for CyanogenMod as an organization.

    As for the team’s stance on the S4, there isn’t one at this time, and most definitely won’t be one before the device is sold at retail.

    -The CyanogenMod Team

  8. Re:Cyanogenmod not on Galaxy S4 by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not entirely true.

    There are two major variants of the Galaxy S4 - Qualcomm and Exynos based. Similarly there are two major subvariants of the GS3 - again, Qualcomm vs. Exynos.

    The Qualcomm-based GS3s were very well supported thanks to Qualcomm having excellent reference source at CodeAurora.

    The Qualcomm-based GS4s will probably be OK because many of the Qualcomm GS3 maintainers aren't as pissed off at Samsung as the Exynos guys (including myself) are.

    The four primary Exynos4 maintainers (myself, Daniel Hillenbrand, Guillaume Lesniak, and Espen Fjallvar Olson - I may have missppelled thos slightly as we usually just go by IRC nicks) have all decided that we won't be touching any further Samsungs. We're all working with Nexus or Sony devices now. (Sony has done a MAJOR turnaround in terms of opensource support over the past year, or at least the Mobile division has.)

    This probably has little impact on the Qualcomm-based GS4s, but right now, the Exynos-based GS4s are without any prospective maintainers.

    Will a new maintainer step up? Possibly. Will they succeed without just saying "fuck this shit" and selling the phone for a different one? I personlly don't think so.

    It's a volunteer project so nothing is ever a surefire given, and collective decisions are rarely made - so far, they have only been made in regards to outdated hardware and newer versions of Android. (Such as Snapdragon S1-based phones ending at CM7).

    That said, if you look at the attitudes of developers, you can "get a feel" for how likely a phone is going to be well supported by CM.
    DISCLAIMER: THE BELOW IS MY PERSONAL OPINION AND NOT IN ANY WAY AN OFFICIAL POSITION OF THE PROJECT:
    Will the Qualcomm-based GS4s receive maintainer attention and continued support including M and stable builds? I'd be surprised if they didn't.
    Will the Exynos-based GS4s receive maintainer attention and M/stable CM builds? I'd be very surprised if they do.

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