Blistering performance from Samsung’s newest flagship

We’ve managed to get a blackbox version of the Galaxy S5 during the local Samsung Unpacked event here today, and as is our custom, we immediately installed AnTuTu inside the device to see what it’s capable of. As expected from Samsung’s newest flagship, it scored high marks in AnTuTu, bagging 36,477 points. It’s still not clear what exactly powers the Galaxy S5, as AnTuTu lists the processor it uses as a quad-core ARMv7 (VFPv4, Neon).  It’s obviously not Samsung’s Exynos solution (that’s six cores, not four), so what is it exactly?

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Well, there has been speculation that the Samsung Galaxy S5 may use Qualcomm’s next generation processor, the Snapdragon 805. That may explain the S5’s blistering performance. Unfortunately, we still can’t confirm what the device uses – the Samsung folks with us can’t confirm nor deny what processor it uses exactly.