Flagships are smartphones that fight in the market for performance crown to bring the very latest in technology. Generally abuse pixels, both in his paintings and in their cameras. Bring in front of a large high-definition screen to display with richer colors all the potential that the hardware that equipment can offer.
To measure this potential are the benchmarks, which are nothing more than applications created exclusively to extract all that hardware equipment has to offer the user. Some people turn up their noses for such testing by claiming that they do not match the reality. A smartphone that usually gets high marks, does not confirm that in practice he will give a better experience than others with more modest notes.
Leaving aside the controversy, we want to see what the hardware of a new flagship has to offer in raw performance. And in this case, we use the Galaxy Note 4, the latest high-end Samsung to show what he is capable of.
The national model, SM-N910C , has chipset Exynos 5433 Octa-Core. Of these eight cores, four are formed by Cortex A53 to a 1.3GHz speed that ensures great savings while on the other hand we have four cores, this time, Cortex A57 to a 1.9GHz speed, ensuring great performance. Together they form the perfect balance between performance and consumption.
Note 4 also has 3GB of RAM LPDDR3 with speed 1850MHz dual-channel, resulting in a bandwidth 25.6GBps . For the user, the model offers 32GB entitled to 24.6GB free, and microSD card. According to Samsung, its limit is 128GB expansion, but users have reported that he quietly supports 1TB or more.
AnTuTu
To begin our battery of tests we used the most famous benchmark market – AnTuTu. He is able to measure all the equipment from the chipset performance from CPU, GPU, RAM, internal memory and up system performance. Here, the Note 4 spikes 48247 points, as impressive result which is accompanied by the phrase “Wow! Monster! “.
He shines in all tests, especially at the speed of RAM that reaches 3605 points. A value well above that obtained by his rival Snapdragon 805, used in another variant of the Galaxy Note 4. Samsung has been accused of cheating in this benchmark, but the company says it stopped this practice since the Android 4.3.
GeekBench 3
Our second test was conducted with the Geekbench 3. It performs well tests similar to the AnTuTu, however, Here, the focus is only the CPU processing speed and also the memory read rate RAM. By focusing only on these two aspects of the hardware, the application performs a battery of tests deeper and delivers more consistent results than those provided by the previous application
At the end of the test it shows the result of two values.: the first relates only to the test with only one core. The more powerful is the CPU architecture, the greater this result. Here, the Cortex A57 (stronger core Exynos 5433) reached the 1257-point mark. Leaving the other devices in the dust, as seen in the image above. The Geekbench takes good advantage of 64-bit processors, but the Note 4, for now, still running in 32-bit mode due to limitations of Android KitKat .
The second test Geekbench performed by the device uses all cores. Here, the Cortex A53 and 57 are required to the maximum and, therefore, the Note 4 achieves the feat of reaching 4210 points; an outcome far above that of other flagship market. Much of this high value also due to the high-speed memory used on the device.
Vellamo
The third of our list is the Vellamo. This app is more complete than others. Here, in addition to testing the hardware, the application also measures the smartphone’s performance in dealing with HTML content. That is, it will run several scripts to see if the browser on your device can use well the hardware in your favor when dealing with multiple pages with animated content and rich graphics.
The Galaxy Note comes with 4 two factory-installed browsers: the own Samsung and Google Chrome. Surprisingly, the browser manufacturer managed to overcome Google’s in all tests, which showed a much higher result. While the native browser earned 4503 points, Chrome was second with 3439. Does it repeated in other tests?
The Vellamo also analyzes how the system can take advantage of all cores. No use putting a powerful processor, the software does not know take advantage of it. The Note 4 really shows that Samsung did a good job. Here, the phablet wins the 2157 point mark, the highest ranking of the company.
And how could not miss, the Vellamo also tests the raw performance of the equipment in your test called Metal. The Note 4 also repeated the same feat the previous test, earning 1915 points and nailing once again its position in the first place on the podium.
BaseMark OS II
To end the first part of our analysis, we have the BaseMark OS II. This multiplatform application handles multiple scripts that perform millions of calculations per second. Individually testing each core, then all of them together. The memory is also undergoing a battery of tests, ranging from reading and writing calculation, and identify fragmentation of data in reading.
It also measures the performance charts for both games and in visuals browser . This is done tests like CSS 3D Transform, HTML5 Canvas and CSS Resize. Finally, the BaseMark OS also measures the camera performance, battery and device external memory (if it has).
In this test, the Note 4 won a total of 1201 points. Of these, 1828 are related to system memory 791, 2001 to the graphics capability and 720 on the navigation speed.
Testing Graphics
Before we begin the graphics tests, which we will analyze the GPU used in the national model of the Galaxy Note 4. The Exynos 5433 follows a Mali T-760 formed by six cores capable of reach a maximum speed of 700MHz. It has ability to handle the latest graphics APIs such as Open GL ES 3.1 and Direct 3D 11.1 . Thus, the Note 4 is prepared to quietly run the most advanced games.
3D Mark
And to measure all this graphical potential started by 3D Mark, a very famous bechmark generally used to measure the performance of videos on computers cards. Here he performs three tests at different resolutions:. HD (720p) Full HD (1080p) and the native screen (1440p)
In the first two, the Note 4 just got the highest score the test supports, therefore, an accurate score was not calculated for the model. According to the 3D Mark, the device hardware is too powerful to get stressed with such tests. Thus, we keep only the test Ice Storm Unlimited which accounted for the amazing score of 20827.
The 3D Mark shows the average FPS obtained during the test, and the ability that GPU to calculate the effects of physical, especially important in games. Here, the Note 4 averaged 124.8 and 79.6 FPS. A result far above what the model can handle screen, which shows that the hardware has breath to spare.
GFX Bench
Another good test is the famous GFX Bench. Unfortunately GPUs Mali are not well used in this test and, here, the T-760 reached only 9.2 FPS in Mahanttan test (native resolution) and 15.2 FPS (1080p). In the T-Rex testing, Mali won 9.9 FPS (1440p) and 21.6 FPS (1080p).
The GFX Bench is the first platform to carry heavy benchmark tests using the graphical API Open GL ES 3.0. So he tries to show if that equipment is able to handle future games.
The tests are more demanding and it takes several minutes, even the most powerful equipment market will sweat to run all the heavy graphics that GFX Bench requires them; especially when the resolution is too high.
GameBench
But what in practice, as the Note 4 to out when dealing with titles relating Android? Does it illustrate everything we saw in the above tests?
To answer this question we use the application Gamebench . It is a benchmark that measures the performance of your equipment while you play. It measures the rate of FPS, the level of CPU usage, the amount of RAM used by the game and also the GPU load, which unfortunately was not shown here, which shows that not even the application sees Mali T-760 perfectly.
We use five well-known games to measure the performance of the Note 4. Going from light titles like Subway Surf to heavy titles like Real Racing 3.
Light Games as Subway Surf run smoothly at full screen capacity (60 FPS). Most games, especially the 2D, will this level of performance.
Another well famous racing game is the Real Racing 3 . It features beautiful graphics for mobile devices, and with it, just requiring more hardware. Here, the Note 4 ran with an average of 30 FPS.
Another game that lets you select different graphics levels is the Dead Trigger 2 . In the highest quality, the Samsung phablet dug average of 40 FPS. In heavier scenes the rate has considerable fall, but not enough to disrupt the gameplay.
Finally, we have the GTA San Andreas , a true classic in the mobile universe. Here, note 4 holds an average of 30 FPS with maximum quality graphics, as well as the reflection of the maximum car option. Sometimes the shooters comes to fall below 30, but does not hinder the fun with the game.
Navigation
Another great important in the use of smartphones ready refers to the site loading speed. To measure the ability to handle navigation scripts, the SunSpider performs various tests and measures the time it takes to perform the smartphone all. The lower the result, faster loads that model sites. Here, the Note 4 finished in just 399ms, an impressive result.
Another test is complete the BrowserMark which measures the browser’s ability to render 2D and 3D graphics, as well as speed of the GPU to handle graphics. Tests with JavaScript and HTML 5 are also included in the package. The Samsung phablet won the mark of 3021 points, which results in a value 99% higher than most devices, according to Rightware.
Finally, we have the Peacekeeper running several tests, including the execution of videos in various codecs, text rendering and ability to execute multiple instructions in multiple languages. The Note 4 scored 1278 points in this test.
The most curious is that the Samsung browser Chrome was higher than in all these tests showing that South Korea is really doing a good job. In addition, your browser consumed less battery and made the hardware doesnt least with respect to that observed by its rival Google.
Battery
What the Galaxy Note 4 has a powerful hardware, we can already see that. But what your battery, it can handle all that well?
In our tests with average use, combining Wi-Fi with all the time connected mobile networks, glow in the automatic, listening to music, watching some videos, typing and browsing social networks, Note 4 quietly endured a day of use, coming at night with 40% load .
At the end of the load he handled keep the screen accesses by 8h . An impressive result if we take into account the eight active cores all the time and its Quad HD screen that just requiring more hardware, especially in games.
For those who enjoy watching videos on your smartphone, the Note 4 managed run 12h26m videos with maximum brightness until the battery fully discharge. If we reduce the brightness by half, this will ensure some hours ahead of time for the model.
For game lovers, the Note 4 withstands almost 4hs of play nonstop . And to make all his load back, you need to let the phablet by 1h45m in the making. If you hurry, there is a Quick Charge mode that speeds by 50%, causing the battery atinga 50% charge in just half an hour.
In view of all this we can conclude that the Galaxy Note 4 really surprises in performance and does not disappoint in battery life. For those who enjoy games, the model will not let you in hand, being able to calmly deal with the main market bonds even in its native resolution Quad HD.
(updated December 7, 2014 at 00:28)
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