Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100 preview: A closer look

Synthetic benchmarks

The Samsung Galaxy Note II is powered by a homebrewed chipset - Exynos 4412 Quad. It has a quartet of Cortex-A9 cores clocked at 1.6GHz along with 2GB of RAM and Mali-400 GPU. We'll hold off on the analysis of the benchmarks, we think the results speak for themselves.

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  305
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  330
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  344
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  350
• Meizu MX 4-core
  362

Linpack

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  214.3
• Meizu MX 4-core
  189.1
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  177.1
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  160.9
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  141.5

AnTuTu

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  13562
• Meizu MX 4-core
  11820
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  11735
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  11633
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  10767

Quadrant

Higher is better

• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  5952
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  5365
• Meizu MX 4-core
  5170
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  5121
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  4814

A quick note about the GPU benchmarks - all phones here besides the Meizu have a 720p screen, while MX 4-core has a qHD screen.

NenaMark 2

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  59.2
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  58.8
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  56.6
• Meizu MX 4-core
  54.1
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  52.3

GLBenchmark 2.1 Pro (offscreen)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  144
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  127
• Meizu MX 4-core
  123
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  91
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  76

GLBenchmark 2.1 Egypt (offscreen)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  105
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  103
• Meizu MX 4-core
  80
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  64
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  61

The benchmarks on the Galaxy Note II were run in the native browser in Android Jelly Bean - it's blazing fast! The others were run with Chrome on Ice Cream Sandwich, which is faster than the stock ICS browser.

SunSpider

Lower is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  972
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1304
• Meizu MX 4-core
  1312
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  1446
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  1468

BrowserMark

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  185034
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  158953
• Meizu MX 4-core
  158404
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  147582
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  140270

Vellamo

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  2418
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  2078
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1890
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  1568
• Meizu MX 4-core
  1468