Samsung Galaxy S4 Announced Ships in April

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  1. Denial

    Denial Ancient Guru

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    Yeah you're right about the 600 and LTE, it's the 800 that supports LTE onboard, I thought it was both.

    As for the A7 you might be right, not sure -- I remember an anandtech podcast mentioning why they wouldn't/couldn't go for less -- I tried looking it up and couldn't find it. Either way I think Quad A7's are fine due to how often they are used.

    As for clock speeds:

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/6832/samsungs-galaxy-s-4-introduction-hands-on

    Also coming from an opensource fanboy I would have thought you would support the S600 considering samsungs track record for Exynos support :p

    I'd still rather have the snapdragon I think.
     
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  2. Chillin

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    To be honest, I would rather have the new Atom core that's due for the end of this year. Alas, I must "suffer" with my S4 Pro, such first world problems.
     
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    To be honest, I would like to see more diversity in SoC design, I do commend Qualcomm for their open source track reecord, but the Exynos team isn't too shabby. What I don't like is that Qualcomm is using its dominance in CDMA technology (that's why they have so much money, they're the Intel of the ARM architectural family) to dominate the SoC market. I would love to see Samsung use their own SoC or even another competitor like NVIDIA or ST-Ericsson for their flagship phones.

    Plus, I really like the big.LITTLE design philosophy. Though of course I would also want the manufacturers to help champion open source.

    Honestly, I can't really think of a reason why the North American S4 release are the only ones using Qualcomm's SoC except that probably the American carriers want the Qualcomm SoC due to probable backdoor negotiations since Qualcomm built most of the tech which Verizon and Sprint uses for their CDMA networks.

    deltatux
     
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  4. Chillin

    Chillin Ancient Guru

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    OK, I decided to run the same tests on the Nexus 4 (stock firmware, latest update) as this guy ran on the Galaxy S4. Here are the results:

    Quadrant:
    Nexus 4: 4927
    Galaxy S4: 11782

    CPU:10416
    CPU:39190

    Memory: 7419
    Memory: 9662

    IO: 4156
    IO: 7338

    2D: 340
    2D: 500

    3D: 2303
    3D: 2220 (What the heck!?)
     
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  5. Denial

    Denial Ancient Guru

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    The Adreno 320 is good man.
     
  6. Chillin

    Chillin Ancient Guru

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    Nexus 4: 16635
    Galaxy S4: 20105

    CPU: 5384
    CPU: 6497

    GPU: 8127
    GPU: 8574

    RAM: 2327
    RAM: 4131

    IO: 797
    IO: 903
     
  7. Chillin

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    Vellamo:
    Nexus 4 HTML5: 1372
    Galaxy S4 HTML5: 2076

    Nexus 4 Metal: 618
    Galaxy S4 Metal: 824
     
  8. Chillin

    Chillin Ancient Guru

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    The Adreno 320 is good, but the 544MP3 should blow past it on sheer power alone.

    Anyways, there you have it. Snapdragon S4 Pro vs. Exynos 5 Octa (EDIT: after some further reading, this might have been a Snapdragon 600!). The first official unofficial benchmark of the two.
     
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  9. Chillin

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    Here is a definite Snapdragon 600 Galaxy S4. Here's how it compares to the Galaxy S3 and Nexus 4 in Antutu:

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  10. Chillin

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    Here is my own run vs. the Samsung Galaxy S4 (not sure what version anymore):

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