Sony Xperia Z1 benchmark results are here, check out the numbers inside

Sony officially unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z1 at its press conference at IFA, Berlin, yesterday. The cameraphone packs a punch with its Snapdragon 800 chipset clocked at 2.2 GHz along with Adreno 330 graphics and 2 GB of RAM.

We took the Xperia Z1 for a spin and the performance of the device was top notch. So, we decided to stack it up against other smartphones in the market, and here are the results.

The Sony Xperia Z1′s first challenge was when we tested its single-core performance with the BenchmarkPi. As expected, the newest Xperia smartphone piled up an impressive score that secures the device a joint second place in our BenchmarkPi test chart.

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note 3
  98
• LG G2
  99
• Sony Xperia Z1
  115
• 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

Next up is the AnTuTu evaluation that gives us a clear picture on the overall device performance. Surprisingly, the Sony Xperia Z1 ended up below the Samsung Galaxy S4. But, considering that we are testing the pre-finalized version, the scores might change soon.

AnTuTu

Higher is better

• LG G2
  35444
• Samsung Galaxy Note 3
  32907
• Sony Xperia Z Ultra
  29185
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
  26275
• Sony Xperia Z1
  25909
• 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

We then had the Adreno 330 graphic processing unit running at its full pace. The GLBenchmark tests showed us the capabilities of the graphics processing smartphone and in fact, the Xperia Z1 topped our off-screen tests (considering the other two devices are phablets), while managing a second position in the other.

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

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note 3
  26
• Sony Xperia Z Ultra
  23
• Sony Xperia Z1
  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

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy Note 3
  68
• Sony Xperia Z Ultra
  60
• Sony Xperia Z1
  55
• 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

Last up was the JavaScript performance of the Sony Xperia Z1 browser. The result reveals that the browser on the device is definitely one of the best among the current smartphones.

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
• HTC One mini
  1375
• LG Nexus 4
  1379
• HTC Butterfly
  1397
• Oppo R819
  1423
• Huawei Ascend P6
  3858

Sony’s latest addition brings a lot of firepower to the table and the smartphone rubs its shoulders against the likes of other heavyweights such as LG G2, Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Sony Xperia Z Ultra.

Sony Xperia Z1 is surely a worthy device to carry the tag “flagship” and is by far the most impressive Xperia smartphone till date. We are itching to get our hands on the review unit to check out the full potential of the device performance.