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michael_stutzer on 23 September 2012
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famousringo said:
michael_stutzer said:

The SOC on the international model is incompatible with the LTE network hence the SOC change. They all run the same apps and the performance difference between them is negligible to the user. Check the reviews of US variants, pretty much every reviewer said that you'll be hard pressed to find a meaningful difference between them. And because of the benchmarking difference between them Samsung threw in a 2GB RAM.  


Oh sure, dude. A 50% speed boost in browsing is no big deal, a 50% speed boost in 3D rendering is hardly noticable, nobody cares if one phone can load in twice the software of the other, and changing out the baseband chip requires changing out every single other component of an SoC, obviously. Glad you cleared that up for me.

And you accuse others of living in an RDF field.


Just because one of them performs significantly better than other in a certain test doesn't mean it will always perform better in real life stiuations. If you really think that international model can have 50% percent advantage in browsing speed and 3D rendering over the US variants I have nothing else to say to you. They are very close SOCs in performance actually. For example, Sony Xperia T has the Snapdragon S4 as well but actually performs better than the international GS3. I think there may be something wrong with Samsung's implementation of SS4 if the test results are that much different. And benchmarks actually doesn't mean much, sure they can be used as a tool but the results cannot always be trusted. Just an example, my benchmarks was significantly lower after the Jelly Bean update. However, the UI was much, much better, games and other apps were much faster.

My point wasn't even that by the way. The initial claim was they perform differently because of Android fragmentation. I pointed out that it has nothing to do with that. It is just because the SOC isn't compatible. I've just added that they perform close in real life situations. Sure there are differences, but it has nothing to do wih fragmentation.