Full Specification

Samsung Galaxy Alpha Performance Review-The actual HTC One minuscule 2 is powered by way of Snapdragon 400 chipset - four Cortex-A7 cores clocked at 1. 2GHz, 1GB associated with RAM and a Adreno 305 GPU. Some sort of mid-range chipset as a result of and through, fast enough for not too heavy usage but definitely not flagship stuff.

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha is available in two versions: Snapdragon 801-powered in addition to another with Exynos 5430 Octa (the a single we're testing). The Exynos chipset is created on a 20nm process in comparison with Snapdragon's 28nm, making it more power-efficient or lets it work on higher clockspeeds.

With the Galaxy Alpha, Samsung gone with 1. 8GHz for your four Cortex-A15 cores in addition to 1. 3GHz for your four Cortex-A7 cores. As an SMP-enabled chipset, the Exynos 5430 can easily run all seven cores simultaneously and they also have 2GB of RAM to work with. The GPU is also beefier, a hexa-core Mali-T628 MP6.

Just to detail the Snapdragon 801 model before we continue on, it has four Krait 400 cores at 2. 5GHz, 2GB associated with RAM and a Adreno 330 GPU. We haven't ran benchmarks with this one but you can anticipate it to end up being at roughly a similar level as the opposite Alpha.

We ran the 2 Basemark tests to ensure there's no cheating going on and both CPU and GPU scores showed no shenanigans.

No surprise here as the actual Samsung Galaxy Alpha includes a definite advantage with CPU performance. The single-core test out shows a 2x benefit from Cortex-A15 over the actual A7. For multi-core functionality the difference gets to nearly threefold.

We head over to GeekBench 3, which only demonstrates a double advantages in multi-core performance for the Galaxy Alpha dog

Both phones get 720p screens (a bit less for your One mini 2 after you account for the actual on-screen buttons). Here the functionality gap between Adreno 305 in addition to Mali-T628 MP6 is usually massive - inside newer GFX 3. 0 Manhattan standard the Galaxy Alpha's score is nearly eight times increased!

When we return to on-screen resolution, the actual Galaxy Alpha pretty much manages a playable framerate with GFX 3. 0, while One mini 2 is remote the mark even inside older benchmark. The Basemark X 3D scores verifies the massive advantage for your Samsung.

Keep in mind that benchmarks are designed to be heavier when compared with contemporary games though the HTC One mini 2 will likely have issues using high-end games.

The actual Browsermark 2. 1 test out shows a very much narrower gap, it tests web page rendering speed in addition to JavaScript performance.

Note that we used the actual TouchWiz and Sense-customized web browsers for these tests instead of Chrome (which will come preinstalled on both).