Those, who have the phone, do you dare to call it the fastest smartphone in the world?
I think we should have benchmark test of all Snapdragon 800 devices along with 1520 to prove it
Raw benchmarks don't tell the whole story. User experience is a large part of the perceived speed. For example. Galaxy Note 3 may do extremely well in a benchmark but during use there are noticeable stutters. Additionally, many of these vendors (especially Samsung) cheat in benchmarks by raising the throttle threshold. Check out Anandtech, they did an article on it and list which vendors cheat and for which benchmarks.
Yup it's the Samsung way..cheat, cheat and cheat some more. Whenever I used a Note or S4, it felt a lot slower than what the benchmarks showed. After having learned that Samsung was cheating in a lot of benchmarks, it made sense.
The overall presentation of WP 8 blows away Android and iOS.
What are they saying for the sunspider benchmarks?From what I've heard, the NL929 seems to beat the NL1520 in speed benchmarks. At least in sunspider.
What are they saying for the sunspider benchmarks?
Not sure how much of that Anand article you read, but the average gain was only something like 4% so that's impressive if you can tell the difference.
The difference is remarkable. In Geekbench's multicore test, the Note 3's benchmark mode gives the device a 20 percent boost over its "natural" score. With the benchmark boosting logic stripped away, the Note 3 drops down to LG G2 levels, which is where we initially expected the score to be, given the identical SoCs. This big of a boost means that the Note 3 is not just messing with the CPU idle levels; significantly more oomph is unlocked when the device runs a benchmark.
Apple is one of the few companies that doesn't cheat in benchmarks and still comes out on top.