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iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU

saturn88 said:
What question? Why today? Who cares...

But answering your question, there are many Galaxy S3 tests posted way before today,
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The question is why the same phone generates wildly different results, strange isn't it?

Does that mean that depending on luck, you might walk out of a shop with an s3 that hits 1600 or 2000?
 
trondah said:
Could someone enlighten me as to what feature the SGSIII has that makes it an iPhone-killer? Any useful feature it has that doesn't exist on the iPhone?
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NFC
Wireless charging
FM radio
Ability to send files through Bluetooth
USB connector allowing syncing and file operations without iTunes and restrictions
Fully customizable home screens
Ability to use video call with any other phone with that feature
HD resolution screen
True multitasking
 
subsonix said:
The question is why the same phone generates wildly different results, strange isn't it?

Does that mean that depending on luck, you might walk out of a shop with an s3 that hits 1600 or 2000?
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Cause people run tests under different conditions. Many people forget to exit apps and shutdown processes, that certainly affects score.

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Gambolputty said:
NFC
Wireless charging
FM radio
Ability to send files through Bluetooth
USB connector allowing syncing and file operations without iTunes and restrictions
Fully customizable home screens
Ability to use video call with any other phone with that feature
HD resolution screen
True multitasking
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and:

Twice more RAM
Faster processor
Super AMOLED (deeper blacks)
Larger screen (while smaller screens available on other Galaxy models)
Available custom keyboards
SD card
Replaceable battery
 
Bezetos said:
It obviously depends on your settings, how many services you have running in the background, even phone temperature can have a slight effect on the final result.
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It's was a rhetoric question, meant to provoke an answer. It's not obvious what is the actual score of a base model, since you can in theory customize your OS to game the test.
 
SPUY767 said:
Funny how all these outperforming scores showed up today. Couldn't possibly be android fans doing something to cheat the system.
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One of those is mine: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1038481

I found this thread interesting so installed geekbench on my S3. It's running a beta version of Jelly Bean but isn't overclocked. As I mentioned earlier in the thread though, it's just for fun. Amazed at how passionate some people are about their latest gadgets. What is interesting for me is how close today's smartphones are to pretty powerful PC's of only a few years ago. It's all good :cool:
 
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Krait S4

The US model S3 should run right with the iphone 5, i have The one X on a very early/buggy build of jellybean and it gets 1528 on geekbench.so i do not believe its A HUGE step up from the Krait processor but they clearly made improvements, also the krait is over 4 months old now which is a significant chunk of it life when u considered how tech goes.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1040251

my brother is an iphone guy, i am the droid guy so we will be comparing the two when we get them. Also i pre-orderd my note 2 international model so we will be comparing those too as well. btw i am no way biased i just prefer android after i got into the XDA community..

Phones i have had: iphone 3g<iphone 3Gs<blackberry curve<Iphone 4<motorola atrix 4g< galaxy sII< international note(which i loved)<HTC one X

i also own an early 2011 15 inch mbp
 
Memory performance

Is it just me or the iPhone's Memory Performance numbers seem very "odd"?
 
subsonix said:
The question is why the same phone generates wildly different results, strange isn't it?

Does that mean that depending on luck, you might walk out of a shop with an s3 that hits 1600 or 2000?
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S3 with 1600 would probably be the dual-core with 2GB
S3 with 2000 would probably be the quad-core with 1GB
 
subsonix said:
Right, but that still does not answer my question, here is an over clocked s3 reaching 1608.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1039645
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It may be because of a custom ROM. These tests have to be run in a real world situation where there is an SGS3 and iPhone 5 both as delivered from the retailer.

I don't doubt the performance of the iPhone 5, but it is custom SOC designed to run with iOS6, as opposed to an off-the-shelf SOC. What would be interesting, would be to see how well iOS6 would run with an off-the-shelf SOC.
 
Tutsumi said:
Which is still higher than the iPhone (unlike what some places are saying) and that many of the ones tested aren't testing their 4 cores properly...hmmm...
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Given that the four cores will not be utilized in every situation anyway I'm not sure how much that matters. An average score of the base model, (not over clocked like the last two tests), seems more appropriate than to cherry pick high scores.
 
Funny to come into this thread after an updated S3 score and see all the people who first posted earlier touting the 5's score...oops

Who cares, honestly about a benchmark. Try it out on everyday tasks. Quad vs dual, what do you think?

In the end, both are great phones. It's all preference. I'll take my S2 over S3 and 5...I also own a 4S...S3 is too big, iPhone doesn't feel comfortable in my hand, and the iPhone screens are smaller than my *preference*
 
Synthetic benchmarks declare Galaxy SIII as the winner

Oh,synthetic benchmarks declare Galaxy SIII as the winner followed by Nexus 7, and iPhone 5 taking the third place :D:D:D
 
Porkaysi said:
The US model S3 should run right with the iphone 5, i have The one X on a very early/buggy build of jellybean and it gets 1528 on geekbench.so i do not believe its A HUGE step up from the Krait processor but they clearly made improvements, also the krait is over 4 months old now which is a significant chunk of it life when u considered how tech goes.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1040251
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No, the 4-month old US Galaxy S3 2-core 1.4Ghz model still significantly faster then iPhone 5:

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1034550 1918

and it has twice the RAM
 
It's crazy, this post made people who love their S3 so much they had to come to an Apple based site to defend its honor ;).
 
subsonix said:
Right, and here is one with 1 core with similar results. This is all very reliable.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1038460
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Right. On Android you can turn off cores, in fact, certain power management apps do it transparently to the user. You can run a test not even knowing that you running on one core only.

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Lindsford said:
It's crazy, this post made people who love their S3 so much...
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What's not to love? Besides the S3 is future proof, unlike some other phones which become absolete before even being released :D
 
Lindsford said:
It's crazy, this post made people who love their S3 so much they had to come to an Apple based site to defend its honor ;).
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Samsung is very defensive as a whole. Take their ridiculously misleading new print ad for instance. Hey check on the new features my custom phone the J Galaxy 5S has:

J-ray
Tap to talk
Flip to rotate
J-voice
Picture on top of another picture
Completely removable components
6.4" screen

See I can spout off useless (albeit made-up) software gimmicks too. Lets say it like it is. There obviously is a market for ginormous phones. iOS, Android WP8 all do the same tasks (whether people want to believe it or not), they just do those tasks differently/give the user different ways to do tasks. It is COMPLETELY about preference.

Stop with this non-sense. I don't feel the need to run to an Android/Samsung forum to "defend" the iPhone 5 and you people coming here doing the reverse just end up making yourselves look foolish. Be content with your purchase and let the rest of us be content with ours.

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saturn88 said:
Right. On Android you can turn off cores, in fact, certain power management apps do it transparently to the user. You can run a test not even knowing that you running on one core only.

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What's not to love? Besides the S3 is future proof, unlike some other phones which become absolete before even being released :D
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How is the S3 future proof? It's been out for 5 months and still doesn't have the latest Android OS, Samsung will release an "S4" next year which will almost certainly be heralded as "the NEXT next big thing" just as Apple does each year with it's flagship. Apple is better than anyone at tuning performance to maximize efficiency so to say that power management is somehow "unique" to Android is the kind of dribble that causes useless arguments like this.

You love your S3, I couldn't be happier for you. I love my iPhone. To each his own - I don't need you or anyone else to tell me what I'm missing. I'd venture to say there are more iPhone users like me - who do their research and base their tech buying decisions on what they want - than "fandroids" (used to separate from those Android users who aren't foaming at the mouth over the iPhone 5) think.
 
jrswizzle said:
How is the S3 future proof? It's been out for 5 months and still doesn't have the latest Android OS
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I was talking mostly about future proof hardware, but speaking of OS, the Android OS updates are not as important to an Android user as iOS updates to an iPhone user: exactly because Android OS is future proof.

Android had these important OS feature for ages (most since version 1.0-1.6): copy/paste, voice command, multitasking, wireless sync, notifications, resolution independent UI, widgets, USB storage, custom keyboards. That is future-proof.

iPhone user, on the other hand, has to wait each year to get a new bone, which than declared "revolutionary" and "innovative".
 
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