LG G2 flagship is the second smartphone powered by the latest Snapdragon 800 chipset we are examining today. Its four Krait 400 cores are clocked with 100 MHz higher than those on Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra at 2.26 GHz.
Other than the higher CPU clock, the LG G2 packs the same Adreno 330 graphics and 2GB of RAM. We noticed the LG G2 has 1.81 GB of RAM available, while the Xperia Z Ultra offers 1.76 GB RAM to the Android OS. Because the smartphones share the RAM with the GPU, this means Sony has made 50MB more RAM available to the Adreno 330 than LG.
Enough technicalities though, let’s put those beasts through the benchmarks and see who wins.
We test the single-core performance with the BenchmarkPi. The LG G2 managed to beat the Xperia Z Ultra score, helped by its higher CPU clock.
Benchmark Pi
Lower is better
LG G2 99
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 115
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 130
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 132
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 132
HTC Butterfly S 135
LG Optimus G Pro 147
HTC One 151
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 166
Sony Xperia Z 264
HTC Butterfly 266
Oppo Find 5 267
HTC One X+ 280
LG Optimus G 285
HTC One mini 293
Samsung Galaxy Note II 305
HTC One X (Tegra 3) 330
LG Optimus 4X HD 350
Samsung Galaxy S III 359
Nexus 4 431
Linpack is using all four Krait 400 cores. The LG G2 once again did better than the Xperia Z Ultra by a hair.
Linpack
Higher is better
LG G2 1054
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 1034
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 818
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 791
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 788
LG Optimus G Pro 743
HTC Butterfly S 669
HTC One 646
Sony Xperia Z 630
HTC Butterfly 624
LG Optimus G 608
Oppo Find 5 593
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 413
HTC One mini 320
Samsung Galaxy Note II 214.3
Nexus 4 213.5
HTC One X+ 177.7
Samsung Galaxy S III 175.5
HTC One X 160.9
LG Optimus 4X HD 141.5
The next benchmark we run is the newly released GeekBench 3. It combines CPU and memory performance but the LG G2 streak came to an end here as it failed to beat the Sony Xperia Z Ultra.
Geekbench 3
Higher is better
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 2670
LG G2 2243
HTC One 1972
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 1869
LG Optimus G 1623
Huawei Ascend P6 1315
LG Nexus 4 1288
HTC Butterfly 1257
Oppo R819 1047
HTC One mini 887
Quadrant and AnTuTu evaluate the overall device performance and here LG G2 topped the Xperia Z Ultra by a whisker.
AnTuTu
Higher is better
LG G2 30243
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 29185
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 26275
HTC Butterfly S 25357
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 24716
HTC One 22678
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 21363
Sony Xperia Z 20794
LG Optimus G Pro 20056
HTC Butterfly 19513
Samsung Galaxy S III 15547
Oppo Find 5 15167
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 14518
HTC One mini 11434
Quadrant
Higher is better
LG G2 19815
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 18177
HTC Butterfly S 13130
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
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 7153
Oppo Find 5
7111
HTC One mini 6048
HTC One X
5952
Samsung Galaxy Note II
5916
Samsung Galaxy S III
5450
Nexus 4
4567
It’s time to test the GPU performance. As we mentioned above, the Xperia Z Ultra offers 50MB more RAM to its Adreno 330 than the G2 and the benchmarks scores confirm Sony’s gadget has greater graphic performance. You will hardly ever notice the difference in real life usage though.
GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen)
Higher is better
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 60
LG G2 54
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 43
HTC Butterfly S 42
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 Mega 6.3 17
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 17
Samsung Galaxy Note II 17
HTC One mini 15
HTC One X 11
GLBenchmark 2.7 T-Rex (1080p off-screen)
Higher is better
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 23
LG G2 22
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 17.1
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 17.1
Apple iPad 4 16.8
HTC Butterfly S 16
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 16
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 S4 mini 6.4
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 6.3
HTC One mini 5.6
Samsung Galaxy Note II 4.9
Epic Citadel
Higher is better
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 54.9
LG G2 51
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 37.2
HTC One 35.6
HTC Butterfly 29.6
The Adreno 330 GPU on both Xperia Z Ultra and LG G2 supports OpenGL ES 3.0, which was recently added to Android (with 4.3) and that promised improved graphics. It’s reasonable to expect even better graphics performance once Android 4.3 makes its way to this device.
The JavaScript performance of the LG G2 browser is excellent though the Xperia Z Ultra did an even better job. Since SunSpider has recently released a new v1.0.1 we used that for our tests.
SunSpider
Lower is better
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 750
LG G2 902
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 1046
HTC One 1174
LG Optimus G 1293
HTC One mini 1375
LG Nexus 4 1379
HTC Butterfly 1397
Oppo R819 1423
Huawei Ascend P6 3858
The combined BrowserMark 2 benchmark was an easy job for the LG G2 and it easily topped our test chart.
BrowserMark 2
Higher is better
LG G2 2718
LG Optimus G 2555
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 2438
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 2419
HTC Butterfly S 2378
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active 2338
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 2314
HTC One 2262
Sony Xperia Tablet Z 2170
HTC One mini 2164
Sony Xperia ZL 2107
Sony Xperia Z 2093
LG Optimus G Pro
1801
Oppo Find 5 1797
Nexus 4 1794
Nokia Lumia 920 1774
Google Nexus 10
1773
HTC Butterfly 1475
Samsung Galaxy S III 1247
We put the LG G2 through Vellamo as well and it turned on par with the Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra
Vellamo
Higher is better
Sony Xperia Z Ultra 2944
LG G2 2908
HTC Butterfly S 2592
Samsung Galaxy Note II 2418
HTC One 2382
HTC One mini 2252
Sony Xperia Z 2189
HTC One X (Tegra 3) 2078
Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600) 2060
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa) 2056
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 2019
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
Just like the Sony Xperia Z Ultra, the LG G2 offers blazing fast performance and user interface experience. There has never been as fast and fluid Android devices as those two beasts.
LG did a great move waiting for Qualcomm to start the mass production of the Snapdragon 800 chipset before outing its flagship. The G2 is definitely faster than the most common version of the Galaxy S4 that is running on the previous generation Snapdragon 600 SoC. You can feel it throughout the whole Android OS, when playing games, even when you are browsing the web. And since the Xperia Z Ultra is a phablet, then the LG G2 is currently the fastest smartphone available on the market to date.
LG G2 is definitely a great comeback for the company. We are already working hard on the full-blown review and you should expect it to hit our homepage soon.
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