There's still little available beyond speculation, leaks and rumors when it comes to the palpable realities of the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 3. This is why we're so delighted to see that the phablet from the biggest mobile device manufacturer in the world has shown up on a new benchmark.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has shown its "footprints" on AnTuTu benchmarks, where it came up as "N7200." As the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 happens to be "N7100," it's fair to assume that the Note 3 is what has been clocked in the AnTuTu benchmarks.
According to an article published in GSM Arena on Tuesday, May 21, the N7200 or Galaxy Note 3 "appears in several different results" via the AnTuTu benchmarks.
"The one that's most likely to be the real deal is the one on top (GT-N7200), which ran Android 4.3 on a CPU clocked at 1.6GHz," GSM Arena says. "That's coincidentally the same clockspeed as the Exynos 5 Octa found in the I9500 Galaxy S4 phone."
It was earlier this month that we reported the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 might indeed sport Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and that, along with its rumored 13mp camera and 3GB of RAM, could itself run on an Exynos 5 Octa-Core processor.
Though the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 did not score as highly on the AnTuTu benchmarks as the recently released Samsung Galaxy S4, it should be noted that it's likely the clocking was completed before Android 4.3 Jelly Bean (which is realistically still being developed) was integrated into the Note 3.
"Also, Notes typically have overclocked chipsets compared to their Galaxy S counterparts, so we expect the finished product to be clocked higher than 1.6GHz," GSM Arena says.
Along with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, the new AnTuTu benchmarks showed another unannounced device called the Xiaomi Mi-3. This device allegedly "runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset with the four Krait 400 CPU cores clocked at 2.1GHz," according to GSM Arena.
"That, combined with the new Adreno 330 GPU earned a massive 80,000 points (the Mi-2 scores around 21 thousand), which sounds implausibly high," GSM Arena concludes.
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