Posted in: Android, Mobile phones

LG G4 is the first smartphone to run on the Snapdragon 808 chip. Qualcomm announced the 808 revision side by side with the flagship 810 model, but it is just now we are seeing it in action within the LG G4.

Snapdragon 808 offers a hexa-core 64-bit processor with two Cortex-A57 and four Cortex-A53 cores, an Adreno 418 GPU and 3GB of RAM. The LG G4, just like the G3, packs a 5.5″ Quad HD display, though it has been improved with an IPS Quantum panel for superb color reproduction.

The Snapdragon 808, according to LG, will provide equal performance for the day-to-day tasks as the Samsung’s Exynos 7420 top dog. We managed to run some benchmarks on the LG G4 Korean unit displayed at the event. The smartphone runs Android 5.1 Lollipop and we’d reckon the software should be pretty much final since the phone is launching in its home country tomorrow.

We ran GeekBench 3 multi-core benchmark, the AnTuTu 5 test and the JavaScript-centric Kraken on the G4 and here come the results.





GeekBench 3

Higher is better

Samsung Galaxy S6

5215

Samsung Galaxy S6 edge

5095

HTC One M9

3761

LG G Flex2

3604

Sony Xperia Z3

2860

LG G4 F500L

2532

LG G3

2370

AnTuTu 5

Higher is better

Samsung Galaxy S6 edge

70053

Samsung Galaxy S6

69396

HTC One M9

51427

LG G4 F500L

49777

LG G Flex2

47680

LG G3

42038

Sony Xperia Z3

40393

Kraken 1.1

Lower is better

Samsung Galaxy S6 edge

3989

Samsung Galaxy S6

4154

LG G Flex2

4621

HTC One M9

5500

Sony Xperia Z3

6355

LG G3

7632

LG G4 F500L

7842

It’s obvious that the G4 is faster than the G3, but if it’s the Samsung Galaxy S6 it’s after, we’re afraid, it has brought a knife to a gunfight. Perhaps it’s best to wait until the handset is released internationally later in May before we pass any final judgements, but unless it grows two extra A57 cores in the meantime, we don’t see it topping the charts anytime soon.