The Sony Xperia ZL uses a Snapdragon APQ8064 S4 Pro chipset, the same that powers the Xperia Z. It packs four Krait CPU cores clocked at 1.5GHz, 2GB of RAM and Adreno 320 GPU. Just like we expected it scores the same results on the synthetic benchmarks as the Xperia Z.
Despite there are already available faster quad-core processors - the Krait 300 from the Snapdragon 600 chipset (Galaxy S4, Optimus G Pro) and the Cortex-A15 (Galaxy S4), the Xperia ZL CPU still does a great job and will handle even the heaviest tasks hassle-free.
It comes up fourth in Benchmark Pi (which is all about single-threaded performance), it's also fourth in Linpack (which focuses on multithreading), fourth in AnTuTu and fifth in Quadrant compound benchmarks.
Benchmark Pi
Lower is better
Samsung Galaxy S4 132
LG Optimus G Pro 147
HTC One 151
Sony Xperia ZL 264
Sony Xperia Z 264
HTC Butterfly 266
Oppo Find 5 267
HTC One X+ 280
LG Optimus G 285
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
Linpack
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S4 788
LG Optimus G Pro 743
HTC One 646
Sony Xperia ZL 631
Sony Xperia Z 630
HTC Butterfly 624
LG Optimus G 608
Oppo Find 5 593
Samsung Galaxy Note II 214.3
Nexus 4 213.5
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
AnTuTu
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S4 24716
HTC One 22678
Sony Xperia Z 20794
Sony Xperia ZL 20743
LG Optimus G Pro 20056
HTC Butterfly 19513
Samsung Galaxy S III 15547
Oppo Find 5 15167
Quadrant
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S4 12376
LG Optimus G Pro 12105
HTC One 11746
Sony Xperia Z 8075
Sony Xperia ZL 7912
HTC One X+ 7632
LG Optimus G 7439
Oppo Find 5 7111
HTC One X 5952
Samsung Galaxy Note II 5916
Samsung Galaxy S III 5450
Meizu MX 4-core 5170
Nexus 4 4567
Interestingly, the Xperia ZL scored less than the Xperia Z on GeekBench 2.
Geekbench 2
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S4 3227
LG Optimus G Pro 3040
HTC One 2708
Sony Xperia Z 2173
HTC Butterfly 2143
Sony Xperia ZL 1995
Samsung Galaxy S III 1845
LG Optimus G 1723
LG Optimus 4X HD 1661
iPhone 5 1601
We ran GLBenchmark off-screen, which means we're testing at a fixed resolution, which lets us test the raw GPU power. The Xperia ZL didn't disappoint, scoring as high as the Xperia Z Oppo Find 5 and the Nexus 4, and a tad better than the iPhone 5, though the Snapdragon 600-powered HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 did notably better.
GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen)
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S4 40
HTC One 34
Asus Padfone 2 31
Oppo Find 5 30
Sony Xperia ZL 29
Sony Xperia Z 29
LG Optimus G 29
HTC Butterfly 27.9
Apple iPhone 5 27
Nexus 4 26
Samsung Galaxy Note II 17
Samsung Galaxy S III 15
HTC One X+ 12
HTC One X 9
But most games will probably want to run at native resolution, so we're including Epic Citadel, which uses Unreal Engine 3. Unreal Engine is popular with mobile game makers, so it's a pretty important test. The benchmark was run at the High Quality setting and yet the Xperia ZL did as good as the rest of the flagships participating in our chart.
Epic Citadel
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S4 57.1
HTC One 56.4
Sony Xperia Z 55.6
Sony Xperia ZL 55.4
LG Optimus G Pro 54.2
Nexus 4 53.9
Asus Padfone 2 53.4
LG Optimus G 52.6
Samsung Galaxy S III 41.3
Oppo Find 5 38.6
Just like other droids that come with Google Chrome as default web browser we expected mid-range performance, but as it turns out Chrome has become a lot faster after its latest software update. The Xperia ZL scored 1290ms on SunSpider, faster than the Xperia Z, LG Optimus G and Nexus 4.
SunSpider
Lower is better
Samsung Galaxy S4 810
Samsung Ativ S 891
Apple iPhone 5 915
Nokia Lumia 920 910
Samsung Galaxy Note II 972
HTC One X+ 1001
LG Optimus G Pro 1011
Motorola RAZR i XT890 1059
HTC One 1124
Samsung Galaxy S III 1192
Sony Xperia ZL 1290
Meizu MX 4-core 1312
Sony Xperia Z 1336
LG Optimus G 1353
HTC Butterfly 1433
Nexus 4 1971
Oppo Find 5 2045
In BrowserMark 2 and the HTCM5 Vellamo test the Xperia ZL occupied the fourth place.
BrowserMark 2
Higher is better
LG Optimus G 2555
Samsung Galaxy S4 2438
HTC One 2262
Sony Xperia ZL 2107
Sony Xperia Z 2093
LG Optimus G Pro 1801
Oppo Find 5 1797
Nexus 4 1794
Nokia Lumia 920 1774
Nokia Lumia 820 1760
Samsung Omnia W 1632
HTC Butterfly 1475
Samsung Galaxy S III 1247
Vellamo
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy Note II 2418
HTC One 2382
Sony Xperia Z 2189
Sony Xperia ZL 2186
HTC One X (Tegra 3) 2078
Samsung Galaxy S4 2060
HTC Butterfly 1866
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
To sum things up, Sony once again has managed to extract more performance from the four Krait cores than any manufacturer to use this chipset. The Adreno 320 GPU does equally well - it manages playable frame rates using a real-world 3D engine at FullHD resolution. It's hardly a surprise then, that the overall user experience with this one is smooth as butter.
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