Smartphone benchmarks 2014: what’s the fastest smartphone?

Smartphone benchmarks 2014: what's the fastest smartphone?

Smartphone benchmarks 2014: what's the fastest smartphone?

A question we get asked a lot here at PC Pro is “What’s the fastest smartphone?” This is where we hope to answer that exact question once and for all.

Working out the fastest smartphone isn’t a simple task; you can’t simply time how fast a device turns on or how long it takes to load a webpage and expect to conclusively claim the winner to be the fastest smartphone of 2014. Instead we’ve adopted a more measured approach; each time a high-end smartphone comes in for review, we run a variety of benchmarks and then painstakingly compare the scores across different handsets.

To get the most reliable indication of performance, we use several different benchmarks – each focuses on different areas of the smartphone. To ascertain raw CPU performance, the benchmarking tools we use are the Sunspider and Peacekeeper browser benchmarks (we’ll be adding all the Peacekeeper results in a future update), and Geekbench 3’s suite of single- and multi-core benchmarks. For gaming, we run GFXBench’s T-Rex HD (onscreen) benchmark, which is a demanding 3D benchmark designed to push smartphones’ hardware to its limits.

Fastest smartphone 2014: SunSpider benchmarks

SunSpider is a benchmark that tests your smartphone and its chosen browsers’ ability to read core JavaScript language. It’s primarily a single-threaded benchmark, so that means it only uses one CPU core – there’s no benefit to having multiple CPU cores here.

For the purpose of this test we ran the SunSpider 1.0.2 JavaScript benchmark on each’s devices default browser and recorded the overall score. The result is the time taken to complete the test in milliseconds, so the lower the score, the better the performance.


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 61.

Apple iPhone 6

SunSpider score: 347ms


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 6 Plus2.

Apple iPhone 6 Plus

SunSpider score: 348.9ms


Fastest Smartphone - Samsung Galaxy S53.

Samsung Galaxy S5

SunSpider score: 391ms


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 5s4.

Apple iPhone 5s

SunSpider score: 404ms


Fastest Smartphone - Nokia Lumia 9305.

Nokia Lumia 930

SunSpider score: 404ms


Fastest Smartphone - htc one (m8)6.

HTC One (M8)

SunSpider score: 590ms


Fastest Smartphone - samsung galaxy note 37.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

SunSpider score: 591ms


Fastest Smartphone - Lg G38.

LG G3

SunSpider score: 692.4ms


Fastest Smartphone - Nexus 59.

Nexus 5

SunSpider score: 707ms


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 5c10.

Apple iPhone 5c

SunSpider score: 718ms


Fastest smartphone 2014: Geekbench 3

Geekbench 3 combines a series of different individual tests designed to stretch every bit of a smartphone’s CPU to its limits, and it presents the result as an overall numeric score. Geekbench 3 asks your smartphone to carry out 22 different tasks that fall into the three categories of: Integer Workloads, Floating Point Workloads and Memory Workloads – demanding stuff, in other words.

Take a look at the Primate support website to discover what each individual workload entails.

Unlike SunSpider, Geekbench 3 tests both the single- and multi-core performance of your processor, and higher scores indicate better performance.

Geekbench 3 (single-core)

Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 61.

Apple iPhone 6

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 1631


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 6 Plus2.

Apple iPhone 6 Plus

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 1628


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 5s3.

Apple iPhone 5s

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 1400


Fastest Smartphone - htc one (m8)4.

HTC One (M8)

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 984


Fastest Smartphone - Samsung Galaxy S55.

Samsung Galaxy S5

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 957


Fastest Smartphone - sony xperia z26.

Sony Xperia Z2

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 937


Fastest Smartphone - Sony Xperia Z1 Compact7.

Sony Xperia Z1 compact

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 915


Fastest Smartphone - Lg G38.

LG G3

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 829


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 5c9.

Apple iPhone 5c

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 700


Fastest Smartphone - Moto X10.

Motorola Moto X

Geekbench 3 (single-core) score: 682


Geekbench 3 (multi-core)

Fastest Smartphone - Samsung Galaxy S51.

Samsung Galaxy S5

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 2960


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 6 Plus2.

Apple iPhone 6 Plus

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 2922


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 63.

Apple iPhone 6

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 2913


Fastest Smartphone - htc one (m8)4.

HTC One (M8)

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 2843


Fastest Smartphone - Sony Xperia Z1 Compact5.

Sony Xperia Z1 compact

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 2713


Fastest Smartphone - sony xperia z26.

Sony Xperia Z2

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 2693


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 5s7.

Apple iPhone 5s

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 2437


Fastest Smartphone - Lg G38.

LG G3

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 2205


Fastest Smartphone - huawei ascend p79.

Huawei Ascend P7

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 1806


Fastest Smartphone - Nexus 510.

Nexus 5

Geekbench 3 (multi-core) score: 1769


Fastest smartphone 2014: GFXbench 2.7 – T-Rex HD, onscreen (fps)

GFXBench is a cross-platform benchmarking suite that tests the graphics performance, render quality and power consumption of mobile devices. The score is presented as an average framerate in fps (frames per second), and this gives a reliable indication of a device’s pixel-pushing and gaming capabilities. #

We’ll also be adding the battery test results in a future update to this article – GFXBench’s battery test projects a phone’s gaming stamina by looping the T-Rex HD test for half an hour and estimating the total runtime.

Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 6 Plus1.

Apple iPhone 6 Plus

GFXbench 2.7 score: 52fps


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 62.

Apple iPhone 6

GFXbench 2.7 score: 51fps


Fastest Smartphone - iPhone 5s3.

Apple iPhone 5s

GFXbench 2.7 score: 37fps


Fastest Smartphone - Sony Xperia Z1 Compact4.

Sony Xperia Z1 compact

GFXbench 2.7 score: 34.9fps


Fastest Smartphone - sony xperia z25.

Sony Xperia Z2

GFXbench 2.7 score: 29.3fps


Fastest Smartphone - htc one (m8)6.

HTC One (M8)

GFXbench 2.7 score: 29fps


Fastest Smartphone - Samsung Galaxy S57.

Samsung Galaxy S5

GFXbench 2.7 score: 27.9


Fastest Smartphone - samsung galaxy note 38.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

GFXbench 2.7 score: 26fps


Fastest Smartphone - Nexus 59.

Nexus 5

GFXbench 2.7 score: 24fps


Fastest Smartphone - Nokia Lumia 93010.

Nokia Lumia 930

GFXbench 2.7 score: 20fps


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