jrdatrackstar1223
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I think that the European S III has the 320 GPU in it. All of the information is on the Wikipedia articles for both devices. The phones had the exact game SoC model number (MSM8960, I think it was?). They're both the Krait S4 with the 225 GPU. The European/Korean version has something different (quad-core Exynos CPU and Mali 400 GPU), but I have never really studied anything about cellular chips, so I don't know how a Mali 400 compares to an Adreno chip (though I've heard that the S4 is better than the Exynos, despite have 2 fewer cores).
They could have pushed for the Adreno 320, and we see it out there. The Chinese Lumia 920T has the 320 GPU in it, and I think that it was said the CPU got a boost from a 1.5 GHz clock to 1.7 GHz. It's always better to get more, but I'm thinking there just weren't enough 920T chips available for the world, and they wanted to push their top stuff to China (where there is more of an open playing field without heavy Apple intervention), which maybe resulted in the later release date for the 920T in China over the 920 in the rest of the world.
But yeah, the internals are basically the same for the S III and 920. However, if Mango vs. Gingerbread showed me anything, Microsoft's platform seems to utilize hardware more efficiently. I know 4.0 allegedly improved that to a strong degree, but my Droid Incredible on Gingerbread was a sluggish joke, while I never heard my cousin complain about chugging with his Focus or Lumia 900.
Oh, and remember that Microsoft and Nokia are pushing a pretty substantial update to WP8 this month, just 2 months after release. It took about a year after I had my Incredible before it got an update, and that was the only legitimate one it got in the 2 years I had it. Microsoft's more likely to keep things going forward on current device, as well as legacy devices.
I had the American Galaxy S III, which has the exact same SoC as you said: Adreno 225 GPU and CPU (though CPU wouldn't really matter when it comes to gaming so much). I played the games they announced that are coming, and the gameplay for both Modern Combat 3 AND N.O.V.A. 3 was so terrible that I sold the device. It made me so angry no optimization had been done for the highest American Android flagship models. Unless they have some awesome optimization going on with these games for Windows Phone, these games are going to run terrible. Again, I am speaking from experience with using a handset with the exact same chip as ours right now, so that is why I'm going on these assumptions. The Adreno 225 could do just fine with less graphically intense games, but first person shooters are going to run horrid...