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Indian version of Samsung Galaxy S5 slower?

When Samsung Galaxy S5 was launched in India by South Korean electronics giant Samsung on March 27, the company had announced at that time that the Indian version of this smartphone will come loaded with the Exynos processor and not the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, which is found in the global version of the device.

Samsunng, however, did not reveal many details about the processor.

The Exynos 5422 processor has 8 cores and unlike the 8-core processor in Galaxy S4, this one can run all its cores simultaneously if required. Earlier, the Exynos used in old devices could run only four cores at a time.

The 8-cores in Exynos 5422 are divided in two clusters. One cluster consists of high-performance four cores and the other cluster uses four cores based on A7 ARM architecture, which provides mainstream performance.

The A15 cores in Exynos 5422 run at 1.9GHz and the A7 cores run at 1.3GHz.

The Snapdragon 801 processor has four high-performance cores running at 2.46GHz.

The graphics chips used in the two devices are also different. In Exynos version, the graphics processing is handled by multiple cores of Mali-T628, while in the Snapdragon version, Adreno 330 is the graphics chip.

Theoretically speaking, the Exynos version of Galaxy S5 is as fast as the Snapdragon version but this is actually not true.