Performance differences between International and North American GPUs

[Geese1]

I was just wondering what people's thoughts are on the differences in performance between the GPU's in the International and North American models.

I see a lot of people saying the S4 chip in the North American versions is comparable to the Exynos, but hardly anyone mentions that the GPU's will be different also. I've only seen one article talking about it, and their general thought was that the one in the NA models isn't quite as capable, and thus game performance probably wouldn't be as good.

Does anyone know enough about the differences between the two chips to say if this is the case?

 

[Sisyphus Jones]

AnandTech - The Samsung Galaxy S III Preview

Based on those benchmarks, the international S3 has the fastest GPU in a smartphone by a wide margin, almost 70% faster than the Tegra 3, 85% faster than the S4's Adreno 225 (Adreno 300 series should be out later this year, but isn't out yet), and even 40% faster than the previous best, Apple's A5 with the dual core PowerVR SGX543. All this is with the Mali 400 (albeit quad core), which makes the thought of the next gen Mali 600 series mind boggling.

 

[Sisyphus Jones]

All that being said, though, I have absolutely no reservations about getting an S4 equipped phone right now. Battery life and CPU performance should beat the Exynos Quad, plus you get integrated LTE. It will be a while before games stress the Adreno 225, and by that point it'll be time for a new phone.

 

[Skeeter125]

All that being said, though, I have absolutely no reservations about getting an S4 equipped phone right now. Battery life and CPU performance should beat the Exynos Quad, plus you get integrated LTE. It will be a while before games stress the Adreno 225, and by that point it'll be time for a new phone.

Agree. Most games handle fine on the dual core such as the s3 or omap from last year. S4 will do fine for me, I'm not a huge gamer anyway.

 

[_Aardvark]

Agree. Most games handle fine on the dual core such as the s3 or omap from last year. S4 will do fine for me, I'm not a huge gamer anyway.

Right, and I expect S4-equipped phones (including the North America SIII, One X, etc) to be a pretty popular platform. I'd like to hope game developers will constrain the games to run well on these phones.

 

[Skeeter125]

Right, and I expect S4-equipped phones (including the North America SIII, One X, etc) to be a pretty popular platform. I'd like to hope game developers will constrain the games to run well on these phones.

Well Sony announced that games were being brought to the one series which uses s4 in us versions hopefully those games will be ported to other s4 devices.

 

[Geese1]

Thanks for all the info - sounds like we shouldn't have much to worry about.

I'm not much of a phone gamer either (hate using touchscreens for controls), but I figured I might try out a few non-intensive games (turn-based RPGs and such) where pinpoint accuracy and control weren't of paramount importance, and I was just curious how the two versions compared since I hadn't really read any discussion on it.

 

[rushmore]

Better than Tegra 3 performance overall, cooler running and great battery life is a good combo

Just hope the radio reception is a lot better than the Gnex.