| Curious how the Galaxy S III will match up with the competition when finally goes on sale this summer? Of course you are. Early this morning some GPU benchmarks were leaked for a device with the model number GT-i9300, which many have speculated is the Galaxy S III. The numbers looked impressive, but we went ahead and matched it up with some of the newest platforms to see how they stacked up. Daniel P. of PhoneArena first spotted the GT-i9300 benchmarks, which were run with the popular GLBenchmark. We like the GLBenchmark app because it can run tests offscreen at the same resolution, which helps us compare devices with different screen sizes. If you want to see how your device measures up, you can grab this benchmark from the Google Play Store with the link provided below. (The latest version of GLBenchmark is 2.1.4, but you might see 2.1.1 below until the cache updates.) GLBenchmark 2.1.1 Kishonti Ltd. PLAY QR POWERED BY APPAWARE The Test Devices For this quick performance preview, we selected five devices. We grabbed a pair of HTC Ones with the latest Tegra 3 and Snapdragon S4 platforms, along with a pair of previous generation Galaxy devices that featured Snapdragon S3 and OMAP4. Details on the chip names, CPU type, and GPU type are detailed below. Samsung GT-i9300 : Exynos 4412 (quad-core A9, Mali-400) HTC One X : Tegra 3 (quad-core A9, GeForce GPU) HTC One S : Snapdragon S4 (dual-core Krait, Adreno 225) Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket : Snapdragon S3 (dual-core Scorpion CPU, Adreno 220) Samsung Galaxy Nexus : OMAP4 (dual-core A9, PowerVR SGX540) The Results (Preliminary) Please keep in mind this is only one benchmark suite and we are comparing numbers from a leaked device that doesn't have final software , but the supposed Samsung Galaxy S III easily comes out on top. We have a full performance preview of Tegra 3 and Snapdragon S4 planned for next week, so we won't be discussing their results just quite yet. Over the past couple of weeks we have been debating if the next Galaxy would feature the quad-core Exynos 4412 or the newer generation dual-core Exynos 5250 . We were hoping that Samsung might surprise us with the Exynos 5250, but the general consensus among tech bloggers is that Samsung went with the quad-core Exynos 4412. Some readers were already complaining that the Exynos 4412 featured the older Mali-400 GPU, which is the same GPU found in last year's Galaxy S II that used the Exynos 4210. However, there are reports that the Mali-400 found in the GT-i9300 will be clocked at least up to 440 MHz, vs the 266 MHz clock speed found in the Galaxy S II. Drive-by Conclusions At worst, the Galaxy S III should easily have the fastest GPU of any Android phone when it is released in the coming months. At best, Samsung could still shock us with the Exynos 5250 (Mali-T604 GPU) and really blow away the competition. |
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