A number of high end, 5" Full HD packing quad core smartphone complete with 2 GB of RAM got announced this CES, 2013. Among them are Sony's new flagships, the Xperia Z and it's smaller and fatter brother the Xperia ZL. Huawei also launched their 6.1" HD display packing Ascend Mate and the 5" Ascend D2. ZTE wasn't to be left behind, and packed the allegedly slimmest 5" Full HD droid, the ZTE Grand S.
CES 2013 smartphones benchmarks
Before I reveal the benchmark scores, which were performed by Engadget, please have a look at the specifications of these smartphones (which affect the benchmarks):
Sony Xperia Z & ZL
Huawei Ascend Mate
Huawei Ascend D2
ZTE Grand S
Benchmarks (courtesy Engadget)
Analysis of Results
As is plenty apparent from the image above, Sony's Xperia Z (and more particularly ZL) and their Xperia ZL have absolutely stolen the show with amazing results for Quadrant, AnTuTu and CF-Bench. The only place where any other smartphone wins is at SunSpider 0.9.1 and that too by a measly 4 ms. That's pretty much a tie.
It seems that the Xperia Z and ZL will have a nice King-Of-Them-All status, at least till smartphones equipped with ARM Cortex A15 based quads and others start appearing, yes we are talking to you, you sleeping beast Galaxy S IV.
CES 2013 smartphones benchmarks
Before I reveal the benchmark scores, which were performed by Engadget, please have a look at the specifications of these smartphones (which affect the benchmarks):
Sony Xperia Z & ZL
- 1.5 GHz quad core Krait CPU
- Adreno 320 GPU
- 2 GB of RAM
- 5" Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) 1080p display
- Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
Huawei Ascend Mate
- Huawei K3V2 1.5 GHz quad core CPU
- unknown 16 core GPU
- 2 GB of RAM
- 6.1" HD (1280 x 720 pixels) 720p display
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Huawei Ascend D2
- Huawei K3V2 1.5 GHz quad core CPU
- unknown 16 core GPU
- 2 GB of RAM
- 5" Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) 1080p display
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
ZTE Grand S
- unknown 1.7 GHz quad core CPU
- unknown GPU
- 2 GB of RAM
- 5" Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) 1080p display
- Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
Benchmarks (courtesy Engadget)
Analysis of Results
As is plenty apparent from the image above, Sony's Xperia Z (and more particularly ZL) and their Xperia ZL have absolutely stolen the show with amazing results for Quadrant, AnTuTu and CF-Bench. The only place where any other smartphone wins is at SunSpider 0.9.1 and that too by a measly 4 ms. That's pretty much a tie.
It seems that the Xperia Z and ZL will have a nice King-Of-Them-All status, at least till smartphones equipped with ARM Cortex A15 based quads and others start appearing, yes we are talking to you, you sleeping beast Galaxy S IV.