AnTuTu, an Android benchmark app, ha
come out with its quarterly report
showing the best performing Android
smartphones. Samsung's new flagship
the Galaxy S6 with an AnTuTu score of
67,520 is the clear winner beating other
high-end smartphones including HTC's
latest One M9, Motorola Droid Turbo ,
Motorola Google Nexus 6 and others.
(Also see : Samsung Galaxy S6 vs. HTC One M9 vs. Motorola Droid Turbo vs. Google Nexus 6 )
The Samsung Galaxy S6 is closely
followed by its dual-edge display variant
the Galaxy S6 Edge, which also crosses
the 60,000 mark with a score of 62,373.
Samsung, as of now, has not detailed
the chipset used on both the Galaxy S6
and Galaxy S6 Edge. AnTuTu however
suggests that both the handsets are
powered by Exynos 7420 processor.
The HTC One M9 , which is powered by a
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, i
seen on the AnTuTu benchmark chart as
a distant third with a score of 52,709
while Samsung Galaxy S5 (European
variant) featuring Qualcomm Snapdrago
805 is at thr fourth position with a score
of 49,355. The Meizu MX4, Nexus 6, an
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 follow with
scores around 49,000 on AnTuTu.
The Motorola Droid Turbo and LG G
Flex2 are at eighth and ninth position
with scores around 48,000 marks while
OnePlus One is at the last spot with a
score of 47,550.
AnTuTu has also revealed top 10
performance chips of Q1 2015 with the
Qualcomm Snapdragon 805, which
features in the most handsets in
AnTuTu's top 10 list of smartphones,
with a share of 50 percent followed by
Samsung's Exynos 7420 with 20 percent
share. Other chipsets such as
Snapdragon 810, Snapdragon 801, and
MediaTek MT6595 have 10 percent each
The benchmarking app further notes tha
Qualcomm, despite missing the top spot,
still has 70 percent SoC share in total.
"We could notice Qualcomm is still the
biggest winner, 70 percent of total.
Samsung got the best performance.
Although MTK could also got the seats, i
should try to improve their GPU
performance in the future," adds AnTuTu
AnTuTu claims that it collected the data
from its AnTuTu 5.6.1 and 5.6.2 version
across 160 countries and has been
collected between January to March.
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