Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III hands-on: First look

GSMArena team, 3 May 2012.

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Benchmark results

Finally, we managed to put the Samsung Galaxy S III new Exynos 4 Quad chipset through its paces and see how it compares to its market rivals. With four 32nm Cortex-A9 cores clocked at 1.4GHz, a new and improved Mali-400MP GPU and 1GB of RAM the S III SoC looks quite well on paper and we were glad to find out that real-life performance doesn't disappoint.

Quadrant

Higher is better

Samsung Galaxy S III
5642
HTC One X
4842
HTC One S
5047
Samsung Galaxy S II
3053
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
2316
Sony Xperia S
3173
Samsung Galaxy Note
3531

On Quadrant, the Galaxy S III got the highest score we have seen so far - 5642 points. The HTC One X did come close as its quad-core CPU was able to match the performance of the S III processor, but the Mali-400MP GPU gave the Samsung smartphone the victory here.

On SunSpider, the CPU-stressing JavaScript benchmark, the Galaxy S III's four 32nm 1.4GHz Cortex-A9 cores posted super fast time, once again leaving all of its competitors way behind. We suspect Samsung has also done some fine tuning to its new smartphone's JavaScript engine, which helped it do so well here.

SunSpider

Lower is better

Samsung Galaxy S III
1479
HTC One X
1757
HTC One S
1708
Samsung Galaxy S II
1849
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
1863
HTC Sensation XE
4404
Sony Xperia S
2587
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
1891
Apple iPhone 4S
2217

The Samsung Galaxy S III performed quite spectacularly on the the BrowserMark HTML5 test. With a final result of 169811 points, it really blew competitors out of the water.