Samsung's Galaxy S II Preliminary Performance: Mali-400MP Benchmarked ( Samsung's own Exynos 4210 )

Anandtech ^ | 2/14/2011 12:38:00 | Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There's a lot of speculation about the SoC used in Samsung's Galaxy S II, thankfully through process of elimination and some snooping around we've been able to figure it out.

We know for sure it's not NVIDIA's Tegra 2 or Qualcomm. That leaves Samsung or TI. A quick look at GLBenchmark2's output gives us the GPU string: ARM Mali 400. TI's OMAP 4 uses a PowerVR SGX, so it's out of the running. This leaves one and only SoC: Samsung's own Exynos 4210 (formerly Orion).

Exynos has two ARM Cortex A9 cores running at 1GHz. As a result, general performance of the Galaxy S II is competitive with phones based on NVIDIA's Tegra 2. The Galaxy S II runs Android 2.3.1 compared to 2.2.1 used by the Tegra 2 phones, and as a result has better Javascript performance which we see in some of our benchmarks.

[Melas]

I had hoped for more. This phone is a bit faster than mine, but not fast enough to justify an upgrade this year.

[Neidermeyer]

Why in a performance test of a PHONE is there no mention of it's reception , clarity or anything related to PHONE usage?

[Melas]

Well, in all honesty, I make very few calls with my phone. Judging by those around me, I’m fairly typical. Data is where it’s at these days.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So what is your measurement of "Fast"?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think a more descriptive term is Mobile Devices....that just happen to have a phone ...and also a camera.

So they could be called a Smart Camera.

[Melas]

I used the benchmarks supplied by Anandtech. The GSII did very well in those benchmarks, but anyone like me with a phone in the top 5 isn’t going to see enough of a difference to make the upgrade worthwhile.