Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Review
by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on October 1, 2013 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- Mobile
- Galaxy Note 10.1
GPU & Performance
Although Exynos 5420 fixes the big underlying issue with Samsung’s silicon on the CPU front, it’s actually the GPU that sees the most dramatic change. ARM once again wins Samsung’s GPU business and equipped the Exynos 5420 with a 6-core Mali-T628, replacing the PowerVR SGX544MP3 from the previous Exynos 5410. Overall performance takes a huge step forward. Looking at T-Rex HD (offscreen) we see the best example of where the Mali-T628MP6 lands: about 11% slower than Adreno 330 and 8% behind IMG’s PowerVR G6430 in the iPhone 5s. It’s definitely a competitive GPU with the latest and greatest from IMG and Qualcomm, but not faster than either. It’s incredible to think of just how far we’ve come. It wasn’t too long ago that we were complaining about non-Apple SoCs not taking GPU performance seriously, but here we are talking about competitive performance across the big three ARM vendors.
NAND Performance
We've been tracking storage performance on these devices for a little while now and have noticed forward progress over the generations. The new Note 10.1 does reasonably well in our IO tests, with its strengths being sequential read and random write performance (arguably the two more important metrics). Since the tablet ships with Android 4.3 it should feature FSTRIM support (something we're still verifying on the 2014 Edition), which will help keep NAND performance high as long as you don't fill up all of your storage (remember: try to keep ~20% of the internal NAND free at all times).
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eiriklf - Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - link
Just to elaborate, the nexus 10 on chrome 30 beta pretty much matches the 5s in mozilla kraken and is not far behind in octane either, and I expect the nexus 10 will see regular performance improvements in the coming months.ESC2000 - Thursday, October 10, 2013 - link
You mean they both suck?KateMfield10 - Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - link
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carlinafrelich - Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - link
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U joking right? Since when is IP5S a tablet? It shouldnt be in this test at all and when the score is bad for IP5S. They didnt even incl it on the tests.Shootergod - Sunday, December 1, 2013 - link
Hi noob,surely they didn't list the geekbench 3 which they've used to mention before guess what? it has been helpless defeated there,beaten by Note 10.1 octa core version, and Note 10.1 2014 LTE ver. which runs Snapdragon 800 backed with 330 Adreno beats iphone 5s and ipad air hellishly in every single benchmark as usual. How about camera? ipad stucks with sucky 5mp camera which can't take any quality video and images while 8MP camera with flash can take so much better image s and vids with stereo sound recording. After apple introduce 64 bit chip,wow I see many apple fanboys popping out to bark at any tech lovers but before that they are the one saying nobody buys because of benchmark and nobody cares about it because of their shitty devices form ipad to ipad 4 and from iphone to iphone 5 lose to any Android devices,quite pathetic though,but what can I say since it is a world with freedom,everyone can choose whatever they want! Cheers!liahos1 - Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - link
Guys,Have you guys noticed stuttering / laggy performance of any sort. Verge and Engadget were pretty explicit on this. Just wondering if you've seen the same thing.
nerd1 - Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - link
I don't think they reviewed any android product which they claim to be 'laggy'Squuiid - Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - link
Does the note 10.1 2014 cheat benchmarks in the same way the Note 3 does?http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/galaxy-note...
darwinosx - Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - link
Anand seems reluctant to come straight out and call it cheating. If any site should do that it would be this one.The horrible faux leather and stitching is bad enough on the Note 3 but just horrendous on a full size tablet.