Samsung Galaxy S III «broke» iPhone 4S and other competitors, too

Experts from AnandTech have repeatedly tested the modern portable devices, determining the current leaders. For a long time, unrivaled winner in terms of graphics performance remained iPhone 4S, built on the basis of the same SoC, the iPad 2. The second graphics power of smartphones remained Samsung Galaxy SII. Now, according to preliminary tests, a new king of performance GPU. It is not hard to guess - it recently announced Galaxy S III, but, surprisingly, its separation from its competitors in some tests was huge, and it's not only about the current flagship Android-like HTC One X, but also on the iPhone 4S, too. But his 2-core graphics accelerator PowerVR SGX543, until recently, remained out of the competition, unless you consider a 4-core PowerVR SGX543 MP4, used in the new iPad, and PS Vita.

What's even more surprising in this case, since it is a fact of Galaxy S III in the same GPU, as in the Galaxy SII - ARM Mali-400. Although, of course, there are differences, but we know of only one of them - in graphics accelerator has been significantly increased the frequency of operation, which became possible due to the reduced from 45 to 32 nm manufacturing and technology transfer to HK + MG LP. In addition, the Galaxy S III has four processing cores ARM Cortex-A9, which also gives its share of growth in productivity.

By the way, SoC in Samsung's new flagship principle is interesting in itself. In the Quad 4 Exynos company was able to achieve a 20 percent lower power consumption compared to the 2-core system-on-chip Exynos the past generation, but the productivity has increased significantly. Moreover, the company did not use the NVIDIA, when the SoC than four processors, there is one core-companion, running on a reduced frequency and used the lion's share of time in most of the tasks performed on a smartphone or tablet. This support for the radio module, the standard background processes, Android, digital audio and video (up to 720p, inclusive). It is through this core is the energy savings in the NVIDIA Tegra 3. But the Koreans have gone their own way.

In the test SunSpider steeper Galaxy S III was only Lava XOLO X900, constructed based on Intel Atom

Instead of complicating the design with additional computing unit, Galaxy S III uses an advanced power controller and expanded the possibilities of Automatic Control SoC processor frequencies. Thus, in each Exynos 4 Quad core can independently and dynamically change the frequency of their work ranging from 200 MHz to 1.4 GHz. This method allows to efficiently expend energy at a higher impact in terms of performance. Although, it is necessary to take into account the fact that the major test of autonomy and efficiency Galaxy S III no one has yet carried out and, in fact, described above, only a "paper" calculations of the manufacturer. The reality may be somewhat different, respectively, to guess the future will not.

In the test BrowserMark Galaxy S III broke all by a wide margin, but this means only good programming optimization

Continuing the conversation about the processor, it is worth noting that the device was not only fast in traditional tests, but also pleased with the smoothness of the interface other than a Web browser test showed that Qualcomm Vellamo:

In the test Qualcomm Vellamo Galaxy S III was defeated by the American model of HTC One X, which is based on the current favorite, 2-core Snapdragon S4, in most cases, award winning four-core SoC Tegra 3, which is set in an international version of the One X

The most interesting thing is waiting for us in the new graphics tests. Basically Galaxy S III was compared with the "colleagues" based on Android, where he turned out to be either in the lead or close to them (in the case of the Galaxy SII, and One S should take into account the reduced resolution). But when checking the net performance GPU, when not used on-screen rendering, and image processing was carried out in the resolution of 1280x720 pixels (this is done, not to be tied to the resolution of the display and the vertical sync), Samsung's flagship graphics system has shown itself in all its glory. In GLBenchmark 2.1 Egypt Galaxy S III was almost a third faster than iPhone 4S, not to mention other participants test.

Test off-screen rendering demonstrates the potential of the GPU. At Galaxy S III, he damn good, but too handsome iPhone 4S

Not quite accurate test due to different resolution rendering and use of the vertical sync display, and formed the image

Well, despite some disappointment from the plastic exterior of Galaxy S III, the device was technically, if not ahead of the rest, somewhere close by. Samsung continues to use the usual tactics, letting the leader with a great stepping stone for the future. But we know that the iPhone will still be the sixth generation, and if Apple will be able to integrate into it the stuffing from the new iPad, a display with a resolution 640h960 points it will be just a "monster" on the graphics performance. iPad third generation in this area is not impressive, but the reason for that - great Retina-resolution display of 2048 × 1536 pixels.