Benchmark Pi is a simple single-threaded benchmark, so we know what we can expect from it. The Galaxy S III falls behind the HTC One S and its brand new Krait cores, but it gets pretty much the same result as the HTC One X and its four Cortex-A9's even though those are clocked 100MHz higher than the Galaxy S's.
Benchmark Pi
Lower is better
- HTC One S306
- HTC One X338
- Samsung Galaxy S III344
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1351
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus408
- Samsung Galaxy S II452
- Sony Xperia S536
- HTC Sensation XE583
Linpack offers multithreaded benchmarking, making it essential for testing quad-core beasts. The Samsung Galaxy S III managed to outpace all phones but the HTC One S. It even beat the One X even though it should have been a bit slower (again, 4x Cortex-A9 @ 1.4GHz for the Galaxy S III vs. 4x Cortex-A9 @ 1.5GHz for the One X).
The benchmark had some issues with Ice Cream Sandwich, so what we're seeing here might be due to Samsung's software getting along with Linpack better.
Linpack
Higher is better
- HTC One S210
- Samsung Galaxy S III177.1
- HTC One X126.1
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.190
- Sony Xperia S86.4
- Samsung Galaxy S II77.6
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus77.1
- HTC Sensation XE50.4
Quadrant is a composite benchmark (it tests CPU, GPU and I/O). The Galaxy S III easily got top score here, having a nice lead over the HTC One S and One X in terms of general performance.
Quadrant
Higher is better
- Samsung Galaxy S III5365
- HTC One S5047
- HTC One X4842
- Samsung Galaxy Note3531
- Sony Xperia S3173
- Samsung Galaxy S II3053
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus2316
The Samsung Galaxy S III relies on a Mali-400MP GPU, though the exact details (number of cores, clock speed, etc.) are still to be revealed. It has a 720p screen to fill with pixels (up from WVGA on the S II), so we were curious to find out how it fares.
NenaMark 2 shows much better performance compared to the NVIDIA GPU inside the Tegra 3 chipset that the HTC One X uses and it even beats the new Adreno 225 inside the One S (it's important to note that the One S has a qHD screen). The Galaxy S III shows the best 3D performance of a droid phone yet.
Note that older Samsung models used to have a 60fps framerate maximum set in software and we're not sure yet if the Galaxy S III is running into such a limit, artificially lowering its score (NenaMark reports the results in FPS).
NenaMark 2
Higher is better
- HTC One S60.5
- Samsung Galaxy S III58.8
- Samsung Galaxy S II51.6
- HTC One X47.5
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.143.6
- Sony Xperia S37.5
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus24
- HTC Sensation XE23
GLBenchmark is available on iOS devices too, so it can give us some idea of how the Galaxy S III compares to the PowerVR SGX 543 GPUs. We're using the Egypt test in offscreen 720p mode so that results are directly comparable even though each device has a different physical screen resolution.
Still, the Mali-400MP inside the Galaxy S III beats both the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, which use SGX 543MP2 (at different clock speeds). The SGX 543MP4 inside the new iPad comes out on top though, but it does have a huge battery to back it up and even with a new manufacturing process, it might need to have its clock speed reduced when (if?) it's put inside a mobile phone (like the GPU inside the iPhone 4S is compared to the one inside the iPad 2).
GLBenchmark Egypt (offscreen 720p)
Higher is better
- New Apple iPad140
- Samsung Galaxy S III103
- Apple iPad 290
- Apple iPhone 4S73
- HTC One X63
- Samsung Galaxy S II62
- HTC One S56
SunSpider is a JavaScript benchmark and as such isn't strongly affected by the number of CPU cores - it mostly reflects the raw performance of a single core and how optimized the JavaScript engine itself is.
Samsung seems to have done quite well here as the speed increase goes further than the 16% or so CPU frequency advantage that the Galaxy S III has over its predecessor. The S III is the fastest phone we've tested, beating other ICS phones and even the HTC One S and its Krait CPUs (which use a newer architecture than the Cortex-A9 cores in the S III).
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