The HTC Butterfly and Xperia Z are running on the same power setup. A quad-core Snapdragon Pro chipset with four 1.5 GHz Krait cores, 2 GB of RAM and the Adreno 320 graphics chip. With this configuration on tap it's safe to say that both phones have a strong claim to be among the elite in current top tier devices. Also the playing field is level due to the same resolution on the displays. So things could come down to which proprietary OS is heavier - Sony's or HTC's Sense - and which manufacturer coached its device better for the specific benchmark (yes, they do that).
We have included the HTC One and LG Optimus G Pro as references as they both boast the superior Snapdragon 600 with its more advanced Krait 300 cores.
We start off with BenchmarkPi. Calculations per core is the target of the test and the lower score the better. Here the Krait 300 cores inside the Optimus G Pro and HTC One have the upper hand with close to twice as good a score compared to the Xperia and HTC. Still both devices got great results, besting the Oppo Find 5 and Optimus G among others.
Lower is better
Linpack judges single and multi-threaded processor performance. It's more of the same here - the Optimus G Pro topped the chart while the Xperia Z and Butterfly trail just behind the HTC One, but only slightly.
Higher is better
AnTuTu is a compound benchmark - it test everything from memory speed to CPU and GPU performance. Here the Xperia Z did take a slight advantage over the HTC Butterfly.
Higher is better
GLBenchmark is one of the more serious graphics benchmarks available. We tested the off-screen performance as that shows the true prowess of a graphics chip. The Sony Xperia Z managed 29fps on the 1080p off-screen test, while the Butterfly came close behind at 27.9 fps.
Higher is better
SunSpider is JavaScript-based, where the the HTC Butterfly finished just behind the Xperia Z. Truth be told the Sony smartphone had some luck here as its score vastly improved with the Chrome update pushed yesterday. Before that, it was doing way worse than its competitor here.
Lower is better
The same can be said about BrowserMark 2, which adds HTML5 performance to the equation. The Xperia Z again managed to beat the HTC Butterfly here and this time it did so pretty comfortably.
Higher is better
Winner: Sony Xperia Z (by the smallest of margins). The Butterfly and the Xperia Z were tied on most tests we ran and the real-life performance of the two is pretty similar, but the newly released Chrome update helped the Sony smartphone to the victory here.
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