Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 hands-on: First look

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is powered by the company's own 2012-launched Exynos 4 Quad chipset with four Cortex A9 CPUs inside it. As such, it's not at all the last word in mobile processors, but still we've given it the heavy task of going through our array of benchmarks.

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

• Asus Padfone 2
  262
• Sony Xperia Z
  264
• Oppo Find 5
  267
• Sony Xperia T
  269
• HTC One X+
  280
• LG Optimus G
  285
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
  303
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  305
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  330
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  350
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  359
• Meizu MX 4-core
  362
• Nexus 4
  431

The Exynos 4 Quad gets out of breath in Linpack as well and is bluntly outrun by the Snapdragon S4 Pro chipsets and the Cortex-A15s inside them.

Linpack

Higher is better

• Asus Padfone 2
  623
• Sony Xperia Z
  630
• LG Optimus G
  608
• Oppo Find 5
  593
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  214.3
• Nexus 4
  213.5
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
  199.6
• Meizu MX 4-core
  189.1
• HTC One X+
  177.7
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  175.5
• HTC One X
  160.9
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  141.5

In the compound benchmarks AnTuTu and Quadrant the Galaxy Note 8.0 ranks suprisingly high beating the similarly spec'd Note II.

AnTuTu

Higher is better

• Asus Padfone 2
  21922
• Sony Xperia Z
  20794
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
  17438
• Oppo Find 5
  15167
• Nexus 4
  15146
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  13562
• HTC One X+
  13519
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  12288
• Meizu MX 4-core
  11820
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  11633
• LG Optimus G
  11226

Quadrant

Higher is better

• Asus Padfone 2
  7846
• Sony Xperia Z
  8075
• HTC One X+
  7632
• LG Optimus G
  7439
• Oppo Find 5
  7111
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
  6613
• HTC One X
  5952
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  5916
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  5450
• Meizu MX 4-core
  5170
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  4814
• Nexus 4
  4567

SunSpider

Lower is better

• Samsung Ativ S
  891
• Apple iPhone 5
  915
• Nokia Lumia 920
  910
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  972
• HTC One X+
  1001
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
  1027
• Motorola RAZR i XT890
  1059
• Asus Padfone 2
  1107
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1192
• Meizu MX 4-core
  1312
• LG Optimus G
  1353
• Sony Xperia Z
  1906
• Nexus 4
  1971
• Oppo Find 5
  2045

BrowserMark 2

Higher is better

• LG Optimus G
  2555
• Sony Xperia Z
  1865
• Oppo Find 5
  1797
• Nexus 4
  1794
• Nokia Lumia 920
  1774
• Nokia Lumia 820
  1760
• Samsung Omnia W
  1632
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
  1610
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1247
• Asus Padfone 2
  1215

Vellamo

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  2418
• Sony Xperia Z
  2189
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  2078
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
  1822
• Asus Padfone 2
  1717
• Oppo Find 5
  1658
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1641
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  1568
• LG Optimus G
  1522
• Meizu MX 4-core
  1468
• Nexus 4
  1310

The overall results from our benchmark extravaganza with the Galaxy Note 8.0 should come as no surprise to anyone. After all, the device is sporting last year's tech inside it, and can't measure to its more powerful rivals. Despite all of this, the chipset is by no means a slouge and can pull a lot of software weight behind it without breaking too much sweat.