Top 10 Antutu Scores of 2015 for Smartphones So Far

I’m mainly focusing on Android mini PCs, and not so much on mobile devices. But this year, silicon vendors launched 64-bit ARM processor for TV boxes based on the low power Cortex A53 cores, lowering costs instead of improving performance of their 32-bit ARM processors, as media player don’t usually need very fast processor simply because video decoding is normally handled by the video engine. Two exceptions being Amazon Fire TV 2015 which gets over 51,000 points mostly thanks to MediaTek MT8173‘s two Cortex A72 cores, and Nvidia Shield Android TV box getting over 68,000 points, but sadly these two devices are not (easily) available worldwide yet. But on the mobile space, the race to faster and faster performance is still on, and according to a recent post on Antutu website (in Chinese), the fastest smartphones now reach over 75,000 points in the popular benchmark.

I had to look up the devices to find out the processor and display resolution for each smartphone:

Meizu Pro 5 – Samsung Exynos 7420 with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 2.1 GHz, and a Mali-760MP8 GPU. Resolution: 1080 x 1920.
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 – Samsung Exynos 7420 with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 2.1 GHz, and a Mali-760MP8 GPU. Resolution: 1440 x 2560.
Samsung S6 Edge+ – Samsung Exynos 7420 with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 2.1 GHz, and a Mali-760MP8 GPU. Resolution: 1440 x 2560.
Samsung S6 – Samsung Exynos 7420 with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 2.1 GHz, and a Mali-760MP8 GPU. Resolution: 1440 x 2560
Samsung S6 Edge – Samsung Exynos 7420 with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 2.1 GHz, and a Mali-760MP8 GPU. Resolution: 1440 x 2560
LeTV 1 Pro – Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.5 GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 2.5? GHz, and an Adreno 430 GPU. Resolution: 1440 x 2560.
LeTV 1 MAX – Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.5 GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 2.5? GHz, and an Adreno 430 GPU. Resolution: 1440 x 2560.
Sony Xperia Z5 – Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (MSM8994) with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.5 GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 2 GHz, and an Adreno 430 GPU. Resolution: 1440 x 2560.
Xiaomi Note Pro – Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (MSM8994) with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.5 GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 2 GHz, and an Adreno 430 GPU. Resolution: 1440 x 2560.
OnePlus 2 – Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (MSM8994) with four Cortex-A53 @ 1.56 GHz, four Cortex-A57 @ 1.82 GHz, and an Adreno 430 GPU

The data mostly comes from gsmarena, except for LeTV smartphones where I had to go to oppomart.

So Samsung Exynos 7420 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 shares the top of the charts. There are different versions of Qualcomm 810 processor which might explain the different core frequencies between phones, or it could be that the company making OnePlus 2 decided to lower the frequency to avoid overheating. The 2.5GHz frequency shown for LeTV smartphone is probably because of the source, a Chinese shop, which made up some nice numbers… That’s just what they do…

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.