Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual benchmarks

Sony announced its Xperia T2 Ultra in January and the phablet was designed specifically for Asian and African markets where the big screen smartphones are all the rage. We took the 6-inch device for a benchmark spin and stacked it up against some of its competition.

The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra is powered by a 1.4 GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor along with 1 GB of RAM. The specifications of the phablet are quite decent for the mid-range, but has the company managed to get the most out of it? Let’s find out!

We started with the single-core CPU performance test with the help of the Benchmark Pi app. The smartphone turned up with a mediocre performance, scoring 309. We also ran the multi-thread Linpack test, and the latest Xperia phablet found itself in the middle of the pack.

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  305
• Alcatel One Touch Hero
  308
• Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual
  309
• Huawei Ascend Mate
  347
• Huawei Ascend P6
  348
• LG Optimus G
  353
• Sony Xperia C
  374
• Motorola Moto G
  392
• Sony Xperia M
  400
• LG Nexus 4
  431
• Samsung Galaxy Core LTE
  466

Nokia X
676

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
• Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual
  278
• 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

Next up, we aimed to test the overall performance of the phablet including its graphics and RAM bandwidth with the AnTuTu benchmarking application. The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra managed to find a place among last year’s flagship smartphones, which is quite impressive.

AnTuTu 4

Higher is better

• HTC One
  22678
• Sony Xperia Z
  20794
• LG Optimus G Pro
  20056
• Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual
  19723
• HTC Butterfly
  19513
• Huawei Ascend Mate
  15714
• Samsung Galaxy S III
  15547
• Oppo Find 5
  15167
• Samsung Galaxy Note II
  13562

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 T2 Ultra dual
  
  9600
• 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

We ran the GeekBench 3 to test the multi-core and memory performance of the phablet and the T2 Ultra managed to come up with another respectable score.

GeekBench 3

Higher is better

• LG Optimus G
  1465
• Alcatel One Touch Hero
  1321
• Huawei Ascend P6
  1315
• LG Nexus 4
  1288
• Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual
  1190
• Motorola Moto G
  1120
• Sony Xperia C
  1079
• Oppo R819
  1047
• HTC One mini
  887
• Samsung Galaxy Core LTE
  647
• Samsung Galaxy Ace 3
  564

Nokia X
421

Now, let’s move to the GPU test. The Adreno 305 GPU was made to sweat with the Epic Citadel. The low-end graphics chip didn’t exactly post new records, but it showed that it’s perfectly capable of offering playable framerates even with heavy titles.

Epic Citadel

Higher is better

• Sony Xperia Z Ultra
  54.9
• LG G2
  51
• Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual
  49
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
  37.2
• HTC One
  35.6
• HTC Butterfly
  29.6

Last up was the SunSpider and Vellamo, which measure the JavaScript performance and browsing performance. The device scored 1,337 and 2000 points that was as about as good as we could expect.

SunSpider

Lower is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note 3
  648
• Sony Xperia Z Ultra
  750

Sony Xperia Z1
830

• LG G2
  902
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
  1046
• HTC One
  1174
• LG Optimus G
  1293
• Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual
  1337
• HTC One mini
  1375
• LG Nexus 4
  1379
• HTC Butterfly
  1397
• Oppo R819
  1423
• Huawei Ascend P6
  3858

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
• Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual
  2000
• 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

The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual come out with a mediocre score in most of the tests we ran, but given the positioning of the phablet in the market, that was to be expected. When you put things in the mid-range perspective, the scores are actually very good and the great thing is they are backed by the real-life performance. The smartphone runs pretty smoothly in day to day use and that’s what matters in the end.