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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- Samsung
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- 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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prime2515103 - Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - link
How does using the S-Pen effect battery life?Kathrine647 - Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - link
like Gregory said I am alarmed that a stay at home mom able to earn $5886 in 1 month on the internet. visit their website............B u z z 5 5 . com open the link without spacesalex3run - Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - link
Any words about GPU clock speed?five_seven - Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - link
Wow, this is one of the instances where I need a lasting battery life coupled with a short recharging time. I've already got the Note 10.1 from last year, and it looks like I'll hang on to it and skip this upgrade. Bummer. :(Streamlined - Thursday, October 3, 2013 - link
FYI, the iPad 4 benchmarks are all old. Many post iOS 7 scores were all up on the magnitude of over 50%.I know my Google Octane was over 3200 and Sunspider 1.0 was around 615.Ice Storm Unlimited was over 11,000CrushingBore - Thursday, October 3, 2013 - link
Underwhelming for the price. Really hope Asus Nexus 10 will be as good as Nexus 7 2013 is. [ P. S. Apparently people aren't yet bored to death discussing childish iOS vs Android stuff. Note that this is almost the end of 2013 and less and less people care about that crap. So you can really stop it - because if for nothing else, it really prevents any interesting discussion.]Davidjan - Thursday, October 3, 2013 - link
Awesome!!! It always can use Meenova MicroSD reader to expand storage: http://goo.gl/U6IyYtwizzlebizzle22 - Sunday, October 6, 2013 - link
What is with these huge charge times! 7 hours is ludacris!!!!ESC2000 - Sunday, October 6, 2013 - link
.....Ludicrous.....ESC2000 - Sunday, October 6, 2013 - link
Thanks for an unbiased realistic review unlike the others I've read.