After the South Korean phone giant suffered a heavy financial loss of a 60 percent dip in operating profit for the 4<sup>th quarter of 2014, the company aims to strike hard at the smartphone industry with its Galaxy S6, a device that would no longer possess a plastic exterior and instead, would sport a premium finish. In addition to the premium finish, Samsung has also incorporated its own Exynos 7420 'system on a chip' to its upcoming smartphone and from the looks of things from the latest benchmarking report, the Galaxy S6 Edge is able to zip past the powerful iPad Air 2, which features an A8X chipset.
Previously, the fastest chipset present in an Android device was NVIDIA's Tegra K1 chipset, which featured the dual core Denver CPU (present in the Nexus 9 tablet) and even that was not sufficient enough to beat the capabilities of the iPad Air 2. Now, a GeekBench benchmarking leak shows that a device labelled SM-G925P is able to break the 5000 point barrier in the multi-core test, while the iPad Air 2 was only able to score 4477 points, indicating that the iPad Air 2 is no longer the powerhouse slate that it was for a handful of months.
However, in the single core test, Apple's flagship tablet offering is able to maintain its supremacy with a score of 1812, while the Samsung Galaxy Edge was purported to only be able to achieve a score of 1492. Previously, Samsung decided against incorporating Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 SoC in its upcoming devices, complaining that the chips were overheating even when Qualcomm had refuted these claims. Perhaps it was just an excuse that Samsung was using in order to loosen the chipmaker's grip on the smartphone industry.
Regardless, additional benchmarking results will be available once the device gets officially launched, which will no doubt take place at the Mobile World Congress event that is going to be held in Barcelona.
