Early HTC Butterfly S benchmarks show it beats HTC One, trades blows with Samsung Galaxy S4

Early benchmarks for the HTC Butterfly S are in and unsurprisingly it muscles the HTC One out of the way. It gives other flagships a run for their money too, topping several benchmarks and coming close to the top in the rest. And this is with early, unfinished software too.

The Butterfly S packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset with four Krait 300 CPU cores clocked at 1.9GHz, Adreno 320 GPU and 2GB of RAM. Those are the same specs as the Samsung I9505 Galaxy S4 and better than the HTC One (same chipset, but CPU is at 1.7GHz, GPU is probably clocked lower too).

The HTC Butterfly S comes very close to the I9500 / I9505 Galaxy S4 duo in the CPU benchmark Geekbench 2 (note: I9500 uses Exynos 5 Octa chipset). The difference between the Butterfly S and I9505 is about 1%.

Geekbench 2

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
  3324
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
  3227
• HTC Butterfly S
  3190
• Samsung Galaxy S4 Active
  3046
• LG Optimus G Pro
  3040
• HTC One
  2708
• Sony Xperia Z
  2173
• HTC Butterfly
  2143
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1845
• LG Optimus G
  1723
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  1661
• iPhone 5
  1601

It actually manages to top both S4 versions and the HTC One in Quadrant, which tests the whole system – CPU, GPU, RAM and storage.

Quadrant

Higher is better

• HTC Butterfly S
  12968
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
  12446
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
  12376
• LG Optimus G Pro
  
  12105
• HTC One
  
  11746
• Samsung Galaxy S4 Active
  11346
• Sony Xperia Z
  
  8075
• HTC One X+
  
  7632
• LG Optimus G
  
  7439
• Oppo Find 5
  
  7111
• HTC One X
  
  5952
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  
  5916
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  
  5450
• Nexus 4
  
  4567

GLBenchmark 2.5 and 2.7 show an improved framerate, which supports the hypothesis that along with the CPU overclock the GPU got overclocked too.

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
  43
• HTC Butterfly S
  42.6
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
  41
• Samsung Galaxy S4 Active
  41
• HTC One
  37
• Oppo Find 5
  32
• Google Nexus 4
  32
• Sony Xperia Z
  31
• Sony Xperia ZL
  31
• Sony Xperia SP
  31
• Apple iPhone 5
  30
• LG Optimus G Pro
  30
• LG Optimus G
  21
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  17
• HTC One X
  11

GLBenchmark 2.7 T-Rex (1080p off-screen)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
  17.1
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
  17.1
• Apple iPad 4
  16.8
• Samsung Galaxy S4 Active
  16
• HTC Butterfly S
  15.5
• Google Nexus 10
  13.9
• LG Optimus G
  13.9
• Sony Xperia Z
  13.5
• Sony Xperia Tablet Z
  13
• Sony Xperia ZL
  12.8
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  4.9

Finally, the Vellamo HTML5 test shows the HTC Butterfly S outshining the HTC One, which led the pack of current gen flagships.

Vellamo

Higher is better

• HTC Butterfly S
  2621
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  2418
• HTC One
  2382
• Sony Xperia Z
  2189
• HTC One X (Tegra 3)
  2078
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
  2060
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
  2056
• Samsung Galaxy S4 Active
  1936
• HTC Butterfly
  1866
• Oppo Find 5
  1658
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  1641
• LG Optimus 4X HD
  1568
• LG Optimus G
  1522
• Nexus 4
  1310

Not bad. The Butterfly S also brings a bigger 5″ 1080p screen compared to the One and uses the UltraPixel sensor (but without OIS). The battery is a massive 3,200mAh too.

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