Snapdragon 805 not a major performance upgrade on LG G3, according to benchmarks

Preceding the release of the Galaxy S5, LG G3 and other flagships, rumors of a Snapdragon 805 contained within them were making rounds and causing the tech community to drool. According to these benchmarks, that might have been slightly unjustified. 

While the handset's 2.7 GHz sure sounds promising, especially paired with the Adreno 420 which Qualcomm claims is 40% faster than the Adreno 330, when it comes to actual peak performance, it doesn't seem to have much of an edge over the SD 801.

Actually, if you compare the clock speed rates and the benchmark rates, you get similiar results. At the benchmarks, while the LG G3 Cat.6 got 33,991 on Antutu, the original G3 got 30,634. That's an 11% increase. With the clock speed being 2.7 GHz, that's an improvement of 8% over the previous 2.5 GHz SD 801. While clock speed isn't everything, it would have been unjust to expect much more by simply changing a device's processor. 

Nonetheless, since SD 810 is yet to be available, SD 805 is the only sensible choice for the LTE-A handset, simply because it is the only on that supports Cat.6 LTE (yup, that's where the G3 Cat.6 got its name from).

So, what did we learn? First of all, just because it has a new name, doesn't mean performance will boom. So don't only look at the branding. Secondly, that if you don't live in an LTE-A area, you shouldn't mind a lack of SD 805 too much. Although it would be nice.