Samsung Galaxy S III gets benchmarked, shows impressive and plenty of promise

Samsung Galaxy S III benchmarks are here

The Samsung Unpacked event is over and the Galaxy S III is now official. The new leader of the Samsung Android gang is powered by the new Exynos 4 Quad chipset, featuring four cores clocked at 1.4GHz and 1GB of RAM.

We're here on the floor at the Samsung Galaxy S III launch and we've just managed to get some alone time with the unit to get some benchmarks. Now, let's stress that the handset is a pre-production model, so we can't take these as gospel truth, but it's a good indication of how powerful that Quad-Core Exynos really is. The only thing that isn't working is SunSpider, since our results just didn't tally with the other tests available, so hopefully it's just a quirk. Head on past the break for a dose of nitty and a sprinkling of gritty.
Naturally, we were eager to check out if the SoC has the performance to cash the checks written by its specs. We ran several benchmarks on the Samsung Galaxy S III and we are now about to share its results with you.

	Samsung Galaxy S III	HTC One X (AT&T)	HTC One X (global)	HTC One S (global)	Samsung Galaxy Note (global)
Quadrant (v2)	5,189	5183	4,906	5,053	3,854
Linpack single-thread (MFLOPS)	51.337	103.77	48.54	103.88	64.3
Linpack multi-thread (MFLOPS)	101.606	214.53	150.54	222.22	95.66
NenaMark2 (fps)	58.8	58.7	47.6	61.0	32.8
NenaMark1 (fps)	59.8	58.6	59.5	60.8	56.6
Vellamo	2094	2350	1,617	2,452	901
SunSpider 9.1 (ms, lower numbers are better)		1709	1,772.5	1,742.5	2,902

On Quadrant, the Galaxy S III got the highest score we have seen so far - 5642 points. The HTC One X did come close as its quad-core CPU was able to match the performance of the S III processor, but the Mali-400MP GPU gave the Samsung smartphone the victory here.
On SunSpider, the CPU-stressing JavaScript benchmark, the Galaxy S III's four 32nm 1.4GHz Cortex-A9 cores posted super fast times, once again leaving all of its competitors way behind. We suspect Samsung has also done some fine tuning to its new smartphone's JavaScript engine, which helped it do so well here.

 The Samsung Galaxy S III performed quite spectacularly on the the BrowserMark HTML5 test too. With a final result of 169,811 points, it really blew competitors out of the water.