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GSMArena team, 30 January 2015

Five star


Samsung Galaxy A5 and A5 Duos review: Five star

  • Comments (168)
  • Galaxy A5
  • Galaxy A5 Duos

5. Performance
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Retail package, 360-degree spin, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display, battery life, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Telephony, messaging, text input
  7. 7. Gallery, music and video players, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera and video recording
  9. 9. Other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy A5 specification
  13. Samsung Galaxy A5 Duos specification
  14. Review comments (168)

Samsung Android

Qualcomm Snapdragon 410

The Samsung Galaxy A5 relies on a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset and 2GB of RAM to move things along. There's a quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A53 processor and the Adreno 306 GPU.

Overall, this package doesn't really expand all that much on the Snapdragon 400 abilities of old but as developers optimize their apps for 64-bit architecture and Lollipop reaches more devices, the Galaxy A5 should see a speed benefit.

So let's dive right into the scores. As we always do, we will be focusing first on the overall and CPU benchmarks. Starting with GeekBench 3 and AnTuTu 5 where the Samsung Galaxy A5 showed middling performance falling slightly behind its main competition in the first test and slightly ahead of it in AnTuTu 5.

Basemark OS II focuses on the CPU mostly. It gives an overall score and breaks down CPU performance by single and multi-core. Basemark OS II shows the Galaxy A5 and its Snapdragon 410 chip as a middling to poor performer, outclassed by most of its rivals.

GeekBench 3

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    3214
  • Oppo R5
    2806
  • HTC Desire 820
    2586
  • HTC Desire 816
    1510
  • Samsung Galaxy Core Prime
    1492
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    1469
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    1460
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    1400
  • Sony Xperia C3 Dual
    1181

AnTuTu 5

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    51905
  • Oppo R5
    31417
  • HTC Desire 820
    27070
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    21581
  • Samsung Galaxy Core Prime
    21533
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    21002
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    20024
  • Sony Xperia C3 Dual
    18466

Basemark OS II

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    915
  • Oppo R5
    772
  • HTC Desire 820
    725
  • Samsung Galaxy Core Prime
    564
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    556
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    555
  • HTC Desire 816
    520
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    504
  • Sony Xperia C3 Dual
    466

Basemark OS II (single-core)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    2579
  • HTC Desire 820
    1812
  • HTC Desire 816
    1739
  • Oppo R5
    1657
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    1420
  • Samsung Galaxy Core Prime
    1313
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    1217
  • Sony Xperia C3 Dual
    1203

Basemark OS II (multi-core)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    15096
  • Oppo R5
    10000
  • HTC Desire 820
    8453
  • HTC Desire 816
    7071
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    5481
  • Samsung Galaxy Core Prime
    5283
  • Sony Xperia C3 Dual
    5234
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    4880

Next up are the GPU benchmarks aiming to put the Adreno 306 performance in context. GFXBench has two 1080p tests - 2.7 T-Rex and 3.0 Manhattan - in both onscreen (720p) and offscreen (1080p) fashion showing the test framerates.

Keep in mind that anything below 30fps isn't smooth and the Galaxy A5 scored just that. None of the fps we saw from its Adreno 306 are impressive and it's clear that the Adreno 405 found in the Snapdragon 615 is much better at demanding graphics.

Basemark X shows a gaming score that's slightly lower than that of the Snapdragon 615 found in the Desire 820.

GFX 2.7 T-Rex (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    31.3
  • Oppo R5
    15.1
  • HTC Desire 820
    15
  • HTC Desire 816
    5.9
  • Sony Xperia C3 Dual
    5.8
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    5.3
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    5.3
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    5.3

GFX 2.7 T-Rex (onscreen)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    48.4
  • HTC Desire 820
    26
  • Oppo R5
    14.8
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    13
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    12.8
  • Sony Xperia C3 Dual
    11
  • HTC Desire 816
    11
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    9.6

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    13.4
  • Oppo R5
    5.8
  • HTC Desire 820
    5.7
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    1.8
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    1.8
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    1.8
  • HTC Desire 816
    1.7

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    25.3
  • HTC Desire 820
    12
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    6.4
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    6.4
  • Oppo R5
    5.8
  • Sony Xperia C3 Dual
    4
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    3.9
  • HTC Desire 816
    3.9

Basemark X

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    11065
  • HTC Desire 820
    4859
  • Oppo R5
    4855
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    1904
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    1897
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    1895
  • Samsung Galaxy Core Prime
    1895
  • HTC Desire 816
    1437

Kraken 1.1 by Mozilla reflects the JavaScript capabilities of the Samsung Galaxy A5 while Rightware's BrowserMark 2.1 offers an evaluation of its HTML 5 abilities. In Kraken 1.1 the Galaxy A5 took a solid lead over many of its competitors, which could be attributed to good software optimization as most of its rivals in the table have equal or even higher-end chipsets.

BrowserMark was a similar deal with a good overall score, besting that of the HTC Desire 820 with Snapdragon 615 and 816 with Snapdragon 400.

Kraken 1.1

Lower is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    4911
  • Oppo R5
    11656
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    13083
  • HTC Desire 816
    13564
  • HTC Desire 820
    13568
  • Sony Xperia C3 Dual
    15737
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    18323
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    18343
  • Samsung Galaxy Core Prime
    18353

BrowserMark 2.1

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Alpha
    1364
  • Oppo R5
    1319
  • Samsung Galaxy A5
    1171
  • HTC Desire 820
    991
  • HTC Desire 816
    774
  • Samsung Galaxy A3
    465
  • Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    413

The Samsung Galaxy A5 is no speed demon and neither is its chipset, despite the fancy 64-bit architecture it flaunts. All the benchmarks show a middling to lower end performance in raw CPU/GPU and JavaScript/HMTL 5 tasks. But that's not what smartphones are all about. Sure the Galaxy A5 isn't fit to handle the most graphic-intensive games but it is perfectly adequate for day to day tasks of any kind.

As we reported the user interface doesn't stutter and underperform and you could easily enjoy this phone as your perfectly average midrange daily driver. If you want something more upper-class then you might want to look at devices with at least a Snapdragon 615 chip inside.

Next Page » 6. Telephony, messaging, text input
5. Performance
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Retail package, 360-degree spin, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display, battery life, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Telephony, messaging, text input
  7. 7. Gallery, music and video players, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera and video recording
  9. 9. Other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy A5 specification
  13. Samsung Galaxy A5 Duos specification
  14. Review comments (168)

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  • Comments (168)
  • Galaxy A5
  • Galaxy A5 Duos

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