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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. iPhone is not cutting edge by SpaceMonkies · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The iPhone is definitely not cutting edge technology, despite what some people believe. The iPhone is more the tried and true stuff, although I think most people use it for the software, not the hardware. However, for those who like power and fun in their pockets, the S4 is the bomb.

    1. 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

  2. Cyanogenmod not on Galaxy S4 by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s4-not-cyanogenmod-support-174322/

    Reports are coming in that Cyanogenmod will not be spending any resources on Galaxy S4. None. They've complained that the Galaxy models are too hard to keep working. The strange thing about it, Cyanogen works for Samsung on their Android Team.

    Question is, will that affect your decision to buy or not buy the Galaxy S4.

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    1. 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

  3. 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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  4. oh that's right by slashmydots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, now it's fast enough to run Crysis 3! Oh wait...that's right, it's a phone. Apps are written for the slowest Android devices for the biggest marketability so that speed means nothing and does nothing but waste battery life. Maybe it can process photos faster with a built-in app or something faster but who cares? Most people run 3rd party apps the vast majority of the time. I would much, much, much rather see a doubling of the battery life than a doubling of the processor speed.

  5. Re:funny thing is by GNious · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm more surprised that they were so close.... That's actually a vote in favour of the Apple offering, because Apple's slower processor with half the processing cores will use less battery....

    Is not quite that simple - the quad-core 1.4GHz might be able to finish some intensive operations significantly faster than the dual-core 1.3GHz, allowing it to go back to a low-power state earlier and save more battery.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Re:funny thing is by cristiroma · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Huh!? Your first assumption is incorrect!
    Listening to music while system is checking the email in background and you browse a site IS taking advantage of multicore systems on desktop OR a phone, as long as the OS scheduler is multi-core aware. Phones are multicore to accomplish such parallel tasks.
    Applications don't need to be aware of multicore. OS scheduler will take care of that.