The Samsung I9500 Galaxy S4 is the first smartphone with an octa-core processor or at least in some regions. As expected, the North American versions of the phone will use a Snapdragon chipset instead (a 600 to be precise).
So, both the US and Canada are getting quad Krait 300 cores and Adreno 320 GPU instead of Cortex-A15 / A7 CPU cores (four of each) and PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU.
We expected that version to only be available in North America and the European version to use the Exynos 5 Octa chipset. The Swedish site for major European carrier Tele2, however, lists the Samsung Galaxy S4 on pre-order with the Snapdragon 600 chipset. The prices start at SEK 220 (about $34) per month on contract.
Thats a bit disappointing, but the Qualcomm-designed chipset should still offer stellar performance better than the competing flagships, which use the same chip but at lower frequency. Benchmarks point to great SunSpider performance 822ms vs. 1124ms for the HTC One and 1336ms for the Sony Xperia Z.
AnTuTu scores indicated a relatively modest increase in overall performance of about 30% for a score of 21, 089 vs. 22,678 for the HTC One and 20,794 for the Xperia Z.
It remains to be seen what kind of performance the Exynos 5 Octa will offer AnTuTus publicly available benchmark doesnt support the chipset and the scores the AnTuTu team posted from in-house testing cant be compared to the old benchmarks.
You can check out our hands-on impressions of the Samsung Galaxy S4 over here.
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Source : http://www.gsmarena.com/us_canada_and_sweden_getting_snapdragon_600_based_galaxy_s4_-news-5722.php
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