Posted in: Android, Featured, Mobile phones

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.