What started as a means to check your phone’s hardware config and performance is fast turning into a marketing medium for manufacturers. So much so that OEMs are tweaking their SoCs and ROMs so they shine at that… yes, I’m talking about benchmarking apps.
AnTuTu is arguably the most popular benchmarking app out there. It isn’t uncommon for companies to present their new phone’s AnTuTu score during press conferences (right after they’re done taking a dig at the iPhone). That’s a trend more popular with Chinese OEMs than any other.
Nonetheless, we’ve gotten to this point only because consumers too care about benchmark scores. If that is the case with you as well, you’ll be pleased to know that the new Meizu PRO 5 does pretty well with AnTuTu; it scores over 76,000 points!
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In fact, the Meizu PRO 5 actually tops the list of the highest AnTuTu scores with 76,852 points. That is rather amusing, because Meizu buys the PRO 5 SoC (the Exynos 7420) from Samsung, who themselves ship a few phones with the SoC. You would expect Samsung to have the best implementation of the Exynos 7420, which doesn’t seem to be the case here.
Another interesting fact is that all of the top 10 spots (highest scoring devices) are taken either by Exynos 7420 or Snapdragon 810 powered phones!
Let the hunger games begin!!! I mean the figth between Exynos+Kirin+Mediated+Qualcomm begin.
In that regard, how much more costly is the Exynos SoC compared to a mediatek or a Qualcomm, same question goes for the Kirin HS huawei SoC.
Please do tell if you have any idea.
Exynos, Kirin, Mediatek and Qualcomm will fight over a single battery…the fight will be short)
sorry, i couldn’t get your point ???
I mean if they tried to compete in performance while powered by the same battery it would run out of juice really quickly. Sorry for confusing you. That sort of jokes are popular on a certain Russian site and I just couldn’t help but to make it.
I think it’s pretty difficult to find out the actual price. I’ve tried but no luck.
If not for the flyme, i would be all over this phone…
Flyme is the reason I love Meizu.
Well, i got ZUK Z1 with COS 12.1;)
Lol CS is the reason I would never get a One Plus One or the Z1, I am not a fan of it at all.
Cool. Matter of taste.
Yup. That’s the beauty of Android there is something out there for every taste and budget.
If pro 5 would come with 4000mah battery i would try flyme.
Once you use MIUI (haven’t used flyme os) you get used to it, and it has some features(like one-handed mode tc.) that when I flashed an aosp ROM I was like “why this (aosp) doesn’t have that? So stupid”
You saw flyme 5 ? nice skin and fast like always unlike s6/note 5.On touchwiz there is alot of fps drops unlike on flyme but touchwiz was more easy to use ,more organized and more beautiful than flyme until flyme 5 showed up with entirely new look,the setting is organized well and have search buttom for easy finding ,have heads up notification ,new camera ui and more little things that make the phone more easy to use.If you can I recommend you to try flyme 5 beta on the mx5 . Sorry about my bad english
I like the phone, but software wise, i still prefer COS or stock android.
I understand you ,I have the nexus 5 and love pure marshmallow and amazing rom and kernel Development but flyme 5 is good too just different.
Yeah, i get that. Thanks for the tip:)
TouchWiz on the Note 5 seems pretty fluid to me, especially after you disable animations. It has improved by leaps and bounds with every new generation, and it appears Samsung is finally learning how to make a modern, light, customizable skin.
No ,its has alot of frame drops ,I dont mean how fast is to open apps .
To me TouchWiz is the absolute worst experience on a smartphone both in looks and execution. It’s one of the things that drove me to Chinese phones to begin with.
Yeah, I had nightmares from my Note 2 days, but when I played with the Note 5 in the store it looked really modern with a flatter, more consistent theme (though it still defaulted to the annoying Comic Sans-like font); and you could disable anything you didn’t use. Have you tried using a Note 5 or S6?
Yea my GF has S6, still not a huge fan of it.
S6 is almost full of bullshits as S5, people use swap to make a damn thing work. Rather embarrassing for a flagship don’t you think?
Not all Samsung phones have a moronic heap pile of bullshits to choke them. Actually old minimal launcher & camera apps are top of the pops, also browser is rather good. If they stopped with that it would be wonderful experience.
For me it goes beyond the loads of crapware they put on it (they are one of the worst offenders for this). I just don’t like the general look and feel of Touchwhiz, it feels very juvenile to me as a whole. I had a Note 3 which I loved for the phone itself but no amount of tinkering or customizing could get me to enjoy Touchwhiz. I ended up selling it after only a few months.
It’s almost 2016 but TouchCrap as I’m calling this crap of software is stuck in 2012 especially in how it looks.
The fastest phones are also the most thirsty and have poor battery life. Not worth it!
And then the makers grace then with measly batteries to make things worst.
It probably reaches a higher Antutu score because Samsung uses 2560×1440 resolution on their Phones and Meizu Used a 1920×1080 resolution.
I softwarematically lowered the screen resolution of my Jiayu S3 once from 1920×1080 to 960×540 and my Antutu Score raised from 45.000 to 50.000.
that explains how reliable is Antutu on benchmarks
Yeah ,Exynos and Snapdragon are on top , but how much difference in money are from the new mediatek SoC( X10,X20,P10), I think is huge gap , give me any of those new mediatek Cpus , 3 or 4 GB of Ram , Android 6.0 a stable UI and I won´t ever need Exynos, Snapdragon,Kirin or A9,10,24, etc.
Oh yes! I am so looking for the next MTK, they will give the X20 and all following a “benchmark mode’ that is completely useless for daily use, but shall shine in Antutu and other benchmarks. (So they are about to do what Qualcomm did the last years.)
Ahh good old Antutu now we have a number for it that we can compare to other numbers for bragging rights and not much else.
so true!
an Antutu score run on a cold phone, only once is so useless. It give zero information for a daily use scenario.
Specially for Qualcomm SoCs, the 810 goes down to 40k within 5 minutes, if you run Antutu more than once.
Meizu always makes the SoC benchmark better in Antutu, they got the X10 to just about 55k, which is an absolute feat!
I hate Antutu but I ran it for fun when I first got my MX5, I got scores ranging from 49-57 (57 was an outlier, most were around 52).
Given the Galaxy series runs with 2K resolution it’s not surprising the Pro 5 with FHD achieves a higher benchmark with the same SOC.
Exactly what I thought.
power is nothing without control, they can get 100,000 on antutu, flymeos is buggy (battery drains, 4G and wifi reception, the Redmi Note 2 runs smoother than the MX4 PRO with same amount of apps)
Flyme runs fine on the MX5, I have none of the issues you mention.
Yea cant agree flyme is buggy and need fixes
For anyone with an MX5 the Flyme 5.0 OTA is starting to roll out, my friend got his yesterday and I got mine this morning.
Please share your thoughts on it once you’ve fully vetted it!
So far I like it, they added a settings option when you swipe down to go along with the quick settings. The settings menu itself is completely overhauled. It seems more like a refinement of 4.5.