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The Nexus 7 should be very "powerful" as promised by Google!
Quad-core 1.3 GHz Tegra 3 processor vs Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9... the Nexus is a Giant in CPU performance, but the UI isn't smoother than Galaxy S2, indeed it seems that the UI hardship to drag from one screen to another, is not at all fluid! in some case this is irritating!
At this point the Mali GPU of the Galaxy S2 it's a big point over the perfmance!
Anyone have the same observation about the UI smoothness of the S2 vs the Nexus 7?
Naamah said:
The Nexus 7 should be very "powerful" as promised by Google!
Quad-core 1.3 GHz Tegra 3 processor vs Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9... the Nexus is a Giant in CPU performance, but the UI isn't smoother than Galaxy S2, indeed it seems that the UI hardship to drag from one screen to another, is not at all fluid! in some case this is irritating!
At this point the Mali GPU of the Galaxy S2 it's a big point over the perfmance!
Anyone have the same observation about the UI smoothness of the S2 vs the Nexus 7?
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Are you comparing stock with stock? Personally, I find both stock and most roms very smooth. I don't have a GS2 but its definitely a lot smoother than the phones I have played on, including the GS2 on ICS stock.
What did you do to it? I use a SGS3 at work (I'm a software engineer currently developing a proprietary android app for my company) and the Nexus 7 is just as "smooth" if not smoother. You realize as soon as you install apps or modify it in any way the comparison to another device is not fair because it's not on even footing, right? Take it and the S2 back to stock with a factory reset and then compare them. It's entirely possible that apps that you choose to install will affect the performance of the device, even when they are not running.
CHollman82 said:
What did you do to it? I use a SGS3 at work (I'm a software engineer currently developing a proprietary android app for my company) and the Nexus 7 is just as "smooth" if not smoother. You realize as soon as you install apps or modify it in any way the comparison to another device is not fair because it's not on even footing, right? Take it and the S2 back to stock with a factory reset and then compare them. It's entirely possible that apps that you choose to install will affect the performance of the device, even when they are not running.
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The Nexus7 and the S2 have the same Apex Launcher, the same LWP, and around the same software installed, the kernel is about to stock (excepted for the rooting) on both device, and the software installed is pretty the same (maybe the S2 have some apps plus rather the N7).
The Stock S2 is not AOSP (is Samsung full of bloatware) as in N7, so compairing the stock isn't to right... so I've installed in my S2 the SuperNexus (AOSP JB) to compare with N7 (AOSP JB).
Exist a benchmark to test the smoothness of the UI? instead of the CPU benchmark?
The difference of smoothness I've found maybe can be imputed to the different screen resolution? (1280x800 vs 480x800)
I don't know what you've done to your N7 but that just sounds ridiculous. I have a Galaxy S2 and have used that many ROMs & Kernels on it I care not to mention.
But still it has never even come close to the N7's stock experience, in fact the only thing I use my S2 for now is phone calls. This bad boy goes everywhere with me now tethered to my phone when I'm not at home.
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After a lot of trying I've found that my LWP scrool smooth on S2 but not on N7... maybe it's a code related question (about Mali driver?).
Comparing the speed of the excution of the various apps the N7 is greater, but regarding the smoothness of the UI the S2 is equal to N7 (maybe a little bit greater).
At this point I must say thanks to the developer of the S2 ROM and the "optimized Mali driver for project butter"?
Naamah said:
After a lot of trying I've found that my LWP scrool smooth on S2 but not on N7... maybe it's a code related question (about Mali driver?).
Comparing the speed of the excution of the various apps the N7 is greater, but regarding the smoothness of the UI the S2 is equal to N7 (maybe a little bit greater).
At this point I must say thanks to the developer of the S2 ROM and the "optimized Mali driver for project butter"?
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Is this an AOSP or touchwiz rom?
Because I remember codeworkx himself saying that the exynos S2 will never have full project butter and JB stuff because of all the closed source drivers and stuff samsung uses. He said that the OMAP version had a smoother UI, so I doubt it comes close to the N7. Unless you're using the omap version
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Is this an AOSP or touchwiz rom?
Because I remember codeworkx himself saying that the exynos S2 will never have full project butter and JB stuff because of all the closed source drivers and stuff samsung uses. He said that the OMAP version had a smoother UI, so I doubt it comes close to the N7. Unless you're using the omap version
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Mine is an AOSP ROM (based on CM10) so... I've been heard about OMAP, but I don't know what is on details...
HI, I am about to sell my int s3 because it just isn't a patch on my new nexus 4. I was hoping that if someone has the International s3 and a nexus 10 you would be able to tell me even with the resolutions which one gives out the best frame rates on high end games please. As I know the Mali-T604 is vastly superior to the mali-400mp4, but obviously the resolutions is a huge factor. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you
SIII seems to give slightly better performance in a few games. This is likely due to optimization issues on the N10 and bound to get better with time.
The GPU on the N10 is much better than the one in the SIII.
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As always Snapdragon version never available in India officially. Only octa is available.
Is octa one not good enough than snapdragon ? Is that waste of money to buy?
Please share your views.
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Mandeep148 said:
As always Snapdragon version never available in India officially. Only octa is available.
Is octa one not good enough than snapdragon ? Is that waste of money to buy?
Please share your views.
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No.
It outperforms Snapdragon in benchmarks CPU-wise. In GPU, Adreno has more raw speed than Mali though.
It also comes with a higher Linux kernel version for all that it matters, it implements global task scheduling which in theory is better compared to hotplug that is used for Krait. The big.LITTLE architecture isn't a bad idea but the S4 Exynos that showcased it had it wrong... it was not fully functional thanks to a hardware issue.
Battery is in the same ballpark. I get 6-7 hrs of screen on time.
You miss a better modem-SoC integration since the Intel modem in the G900H uses more power compared to the Qcom.
There are only 4 disadvantages vs the Snapdragon:
- Lower GPU performance in benchmarks, in game it's not perceptible.
- More power consumption from modem it seems, blame Intel. It hasn't been a problem for me so far and I call a lot - the battery is good enough.
- No LTE. Major point for anyone living in LTE-enabled countries.
- No custom ROM/Kernel development yet. Thanks to Samsung's previous behavior they alienated devs for Exynos SoCs... don't bet on getting a custom ROM or kernel anytime soon.
Beware of people telling you that Snapdragon is better just because Exynos doesn't has LTE, in most part they both have their strong points and weak points.
Snapdragon is a more proven, supported chipset. Exynos is more bleeding edge but much less supported. It doesn't helps that it's Samsung-only and it's region limited.
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It outperforms Snapdragon in benchmarks CPU-wise. In GPU, Adreno has more raw speed than Mali though.
It also comes with a higher Linux kernel version for all that it matters, it implements global task scheduling which in theory is better compared to hotplug that is used for Krait. The big.LITTLE architecture isn't a bad idea but the S4 Exynos that showcased it had it wrong... it was not fully functional thanks to a hardware issue.
Battery is in the same ballpark. I get 6-7 hrs of screen on time.
You miss a better modem-SoC integration since the Intel modem in the G900H uses more power compared to the Qcom.
There are only 4 disadvantages vs the Snapdragon:
- Lower GPU performance in benchmarks, in game it's not perceptible.
- More power consumption from modem it seems, blame Intel. It hasn't been a problem for me so far and I call a lot - the battery is good enough.
- No LTE. Major point for anyone living in LTE-enabled countries.
- No custom ROM/Kernel development yet. Thanks to Samsung's previous behavior they alienated devs for Exynos SoCs... don't bet on getting a custom ROM or kernel anytime soon.
Beware of people telling you that Snapdragon is better just because Exynos doesn't has LTE, in most part they both have their strong points and weak points.
Snapdragon is a more proven, supported chipset. Exynos is more bleeding edge but much less supported. It doesn't helps that it's Samsung-only and it's region limited.
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thanx for useful info bro,
so it have lower GPU score, is that also can differentiate or noticeable in UI side, i mean i am going to buy s5 only because of software and its RICH Genius features, i dont feel much about its design, and its expensive, i just want lag free device, i know some times lags are common in android, but thats fiar, due to exynos i will feel lag than snap ?
i hope you understand.
Mandeep148 said:
thanx for useful info bro,
so it have lower GPU score, is that also can differentiate or noticeable in UI side, i mean i am going to buy s5 only because of software and its RICH Genius features, i dont feel much about its design, and its expensive, i just want lag free device, i know some times lags are common in android, but thats fiar, due to exynos i will feel lag than snap ?
i hope you understand.
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In theory the Exynos variant does not have hotplug lag, it should have been smoother just from that.
The GPU is powerful enough to render the UI with zero problems, the only places where you'll see a difference is in games with OpenGL ES 3.0, it's not noticeable though. Despite the GPU being slightly slower I get 38,000+ in Antutu constantly (it uses ES 2.0 for the graphics test).
In practice, well, it's Touchwiz, it lags... :laugh: it's something you end up accepting because of the extra features and benefits that the software gives you. Coming from a Nexus 5 it's very obvious that there are parts where the software is unoptimized and it shouldn't lag at all... but it does.
Touchwiz is just heavier than stock, it's not the most optimized software in the world and no scripts will remedy that (we would need smali or xposed edits...).
I'd recommend you to visit a carrier store or somewhere that has a device where you can test games or benchmarks and see it.
And if you *really* need a lagless device, get anything that doesn't has Touchwiz... Nexus 5 is extremely smooth.
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In theory the Exynos variant does not have hotplug lag, it should have been smoother just from that.
The GPU is powerful enough to render the UI with zero problems, the only places where you'll see a difference is in games with OpenGL ES 3.0, it's not noticeable though. Despite the GPU being slightly slower I get 38,000+ in Antutu constantly (it uses ES 2.0 for the graphics test).
In practice, well, it's Touchwiz, it lags... :laugh: it's something you end up accepting because of the extra features and benefits that the software gives you. Coming from a Nexus 5 it's very obvious that there are parts where the software is unoptimized and it shouldn't lag at all... but it does.
Touchwiz is just heavier than stock, it's not the most optimized software in the world and no scripts will remedy that (we would need smali or xposed edits...).
I'd recommend you to visit a carrier store or somewhere that has a device where you can test games or benchmarks and see it.
And if you *really* need a lagless device, get anything that doesn't has Touchwiz... Nexus 5 is extremely smooth.
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ah you really helped me. :good: and sorry for disturbing, actually i like samsung touchwiz, yea nexus 5 is wow phone in terms of UI smoothness and good stocky framework works well. but in samsung i like crowdyness and colourfull and nature, i never get bor
i hope exynos s5 will not disappoint me
thanks again bro ..
Mandeep148 said:
ah you really helped me. :good: and sorry for disturbing, actually i like samsung touchwiz, yea nexus 5 is wow phone in terms of UI smoothness and good stocky framework works well. but in samsung i like crowdyness and colourfull and nature, i never get bor
i hope exynos s5 will not disappoint me
thanks again bro ..
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If you have used a Samsung phone in the past you will be accustomed to the lag and you'll enjoy the much improved Touchwiz.
I really hated it on the S3/N2, slightly disliked it on the S4/N3 but ended up liking the S5 version
Battery life and camera are really good.
Performance wise no games should lag or be a problem (only Xcom has managed to drop frames but it's the most demanding game right now).
Hope you enjoy your phone.
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First i bought the H version of the device. Was not happy with the lack of support from devs. Now i own the F version, and already have the wide range of custom FW available. So if you are the flashing geek, than definitely stick to the Snap device
We have android 6 in the market and thanks to the manufacturer this is stuck on a heavily doped kitkat. I was just hoping if you could build a rom for this. Now there are 3 phones of nearly the same specs, but with some difference in the processor's clock rate. So that makes a great platform for the rom.
It would be great if you could help guys.
Any devs out there interested in porting Android Go to the Nexus 4?
There's really no need for it, the phone can still handle the full OS.
It's only suitable for really low-end devices. And the Nexus 4 is far from it. 2GB RAM is plenty for a 720p, especially with AOSP ROMs. And the Krait chipset is still more powerful than an average Cortex-A7 in low-end phones....
I personally would like a pseudo-Android Go ROM basud upon LOS, i.e. a non-Go ROM with some of android Go's tweaks (mainly the background ones).