14 DAY TRIAL // When it comes to the latest smartphones on the market, processing power is an important factor, capable of determining the purchase decision of certain segment of users, and it seems that Samsung's Galaxy S II is one of the devices that would easily top preferences.
The handset was launched on shelves with a dual-core application processor inside, clocked in at 1.2GHz, an Exynos 4210 SoC that sports the fastest GPU in a mobile phone, it seems.
The Exynos 4210 is based on a dual-core Cortex A9 design, and is the very first in the world to sport an ARM Mali-400 GPU.
The performance capabilities of this four-core version of the Mali-400 GPU are impressive, and the testing that the guys over at Anand Tech run on the smartphone show exactly that.
The only GPU that tops the speed of Galaxy S II's chip is the PowerVR SGX 543MP2 that can be found inside the Apple iPad 2.
All other smartphones fall behind the Samsung Galaxy S II, and the difference in performance between this device and the next one is impressive.
The new flagship Android-based mobile phone from Samsung was able to score 42.5 in the GPBenchmark 2.1 Egypt Offscreen test, while the next smartphone on the list, the Samsung Infuse 4G, which sports a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU with an SGX 540 GPU, scored only 25.5.
However, it appears that the Samsung Galaxy S II's GPU does not come with the best triangle throughput, which might become an issue when new, more resources-demanding games are released on the market.
Even so, the handset can deliver the smoothest experience that any other Android smartphone has to offer at the moment, Anand Tech concludes. More on their report is available here.
The Galaxy S II has already managed to conquer the hearts of millions of users around the world, and is expected to appeal to even more of them, as it is just being launched on the US market.