Samsung Galaxy Note II gets early benchmark treatment at IFA

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/08/leadnote.jpg Here at IFA, the Galaxy Note II’s glossy plastic build is practically fading under the ambush of cameras snapping away at Samsung’s booth, but clearly this phone is more than just a (super sized) pretty face. As mentioned in our hands-on, Samsung upgraded the original Note’s dual-core 1.4GHz chipset to a quad-core 1.6GHz Exynos processor. We put the device to the test today to see how those amped-up insides reflect in the Note II’s benchmark scores. As you’ll see below, Sammy’s latest handset fares significantly better than the original Note and the Galaxy S III.
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        **Galaxy Note II**

        **Galaxy Note (international)**](http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/28/samsung-galaxy-note-review/)

        **Galaxy S III (I9300)**](http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/25/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review/)



   
AnTuTu
   
11,736
   
N/A
   
11,960


   
Quadrant
   
6,644
   
3,810
   
4,454


   
Vellamo
   
2,466
   
901
   
1,751


   
SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms, lower is better)
   
1,330
   
2,902
   
1,460


   
CF-Bench
   
15,305
   
N/A
   
13,110


   
GL Benchmark Egypt Offscreen
   
114 fps
   
N/A
   
99 fps

Oh, what a difference a processor makes. Clearly the step up to a quad-core CPU is to thank for the large performance delta between the Note II and the last-gen Note, though the international version of the Galaxy S III, with a quad-core 1.4Ghz Exynos processor, also falls behind in Quadrant and other tests. The Note II also trumped its Samsung siblings on the browser-focused Vellamo benchmark, which hints at snappier performance on this phone. Things on the graphics side of things look pretty good, too, if the GL Benchmark score is any indication. Our testing got cut short before we could run SunSpider, but we’ll add that figure shortly.
**Update: **We’ve added SunSpider as well – the device clocked in at 1,330ms, which is a hair faster than the Galaxy S III.
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