I know we don’t talk for everyone, but apart from the addition of an SD card, the Meizu m2 note has been a little underwhelming and the new Antutu scores don’t help!
The Meizu m2 note was announced this morning, and is basically a slightly modified version of the original Meizu m1 note. Yes, it has a physical home button, and an SD card, but overall it is very similar to the original m1.
Taking a closer look at the specs you discover 2GB RAM, but a new processor. For the M2 , Meizu are using the MT6753 chipset. This is basically a version of the MT6752 (found in the original M1 note) but with Mediatek’s WorldMode 4G LTE support. That’s not the only difference though. The MT6752 in the m2 runs at just 1.3Ghz (the m1 has a 1.7Ghz chip) and the GPU is a Mali T720 (the m1 has a Mali T760). So what do these downgrades in the processor dept mean to the overall performance?
Well as you can see from these Antutu benchmarks, the scores are far from impressive! In fact a score of less than 32,000 points is what we expect to see from a MT6582 phone from 2014, not a mid range 2015 phablet! In comparison, our own Meizu m1 note scores over 40,000 points.
It is hard to understand exactly what Meizu are playing at. Launching the m2 note so early after the m1 note and with poorer performance just doesn’t make sense. Sure the M2 does cost a little less, but isn’t that what the 5-inch m1 note was for?
So far Meizu have to versions of the Meilan Note and they have still failed to make a perfect one. All they needed to do was keep the original M1 Note, add the SD card (and the physical home button if they must) and launched that phone first. The m2 note should have come later in the year with much higher build and better spec.
What do you think of the Meizu m2 note? Is it a worthwhile phone to consider? Who would choose the m1 note over it? And who is going for neither budget Meizu?
Who cares about AnTuTu? It not relevant at all. And today’s phones are generally unnecessarily fast. Most of the people don’t need high-end specifications.
I agree to a point, but downgrading performance on a replacement phone is generally not a good way of selling it! I would take the original over this one all day long.
and people who don’t care about antutu but the overal performance will take the m2 cuz it’s cheaper, so everybody is happy
Like Rob said to a degree. But so many persons sincerely do care about benchmarks. If they don’t, they won’t be reading this article, or any other one having to do with benchmark scores and all.
People care about benchmarks because they think they mean something. They don’t. Antutu is good for bragging rights and not much else. I have seen phones score in the low 30’s that outperform phones that score in the 40’s in real world usage.
You wouldn’t buy an sd810 phone that scores 30,000 on antutu and also performs poorly in other benchmarks even if reviewers claim it is buttery smooth. So let’s all drop the act.
Well put! BTW people seem to forget that by the time resellers add their mark up this will end up around the $200+ for international buyers. For me that would make it more expensive than the Jiayu S3 and I know what I would rather have…
That’s funny because I before I had my Mi4 I bought a Sony Xperia Z2 which had a SD801 and had scores as low as 29,0000 and as high as 35,000. The performance was pretty much equal with my Mi4 which scores anywhere from 35-40,000 on Antutu.
I have never bought a phone based on benchmarks. It is one of the last things I look at when making a buying decision.
I paid for an LG G3 that always scored between 29000 to 34000. My Nubia Z7 Max has the same MSM8974AC and yet scores between 38000 to 45000. That doesn’t count. I wasn’t referring to SD 801 or 805. I said 810.
My point was Antutu scores can vary greatly for two phones with the same SoC which just shows how flawed of a test is. Then there are companies like HTC who admit to artificially boosting the scores for their devices.
My point was Antutu scores can vary greatly for two phones with the same SoC which just shows how flawed of a test is. Then there are companies like HTC who admit to artificially boosting the scores for their devices.
unfortunately most people online care about bechmarks more than gaming FPS , the issue shouldn’t be what your Antutu score is but what the FPS in game is.
even the s6 lags in some games cause of bad software support for exynos and even overheats, but the horde of people on the internet will quote Antutu scores.
Snapdragons have better support and are more trusted in GPS and other departments.
ok. lagging is bad for such a high priced phone. which games are lagging on s6? i want to buy it. but if it lags i will wait for some other phones :/ i want a phone that lags nowhere. but the only one who really has best 3d performance is the iphone -.- it hurts so much, that android is running a real time compiler and java 🙁
Check my other post below the snapdragon 808 performs better with GTA n a few other titles than exynos,
the issue isnt hardware , exynos 7 is fine piece of hardware more advanced than SD 810 or 808
but lack of direct support from google makes the difference , with SD you get direct support from google and developers which makes a difference in games.
also I agree about java ,but the main issue with Adnroid phones though is 2k displays , they put a massive strain on the GPU , it’s just un necessary right now , even a Xbox one GPU can’t render stuff at 2k why should a Phone GPU ? I feel 2k is pointless.
The last part is right. But you cannot compare exynos built in s6 with sd808 on some FullHD device. You need a 2K device with SD808 for testing 😛
There are a lot of readers here that use Antutu as the only parameter to evaluate a phone. Go figure
I think it has something to do with the new Flyme… Example my MX4. On the test 4.5.2.1A version (lollipop) scores 37000 when on Stable 4.2.8.2A (kitkat) scores 52000.
Something is wrong on the scores.
I support your view. Its similar to the SD615! But we are forgetting something. MT6753 has cores clocked lower at 1.3 ghz each than the MT6752 with cores at 1.7 ghz! Further it has T720 instead of T760! So benchmark bound to be lower.
Meizu should have named it as follows: they should have named this the M1 note and the higher clocked original M1 note as M1 Note pro/plus. Looks as if they took some training stints from Asus off late. 😛