Antutu – the most popular and well known benchmark company has released their TOP 10 List for Q32014. Right on top of the list this year is not Apple, not Samsung and not even Xiaomi. The Number 1 Spot on Antutu’s Benchmark list is taken by Meizu’s MX4 Flagship phone – Whoa!

Now for those of you followed Meizu, the Meizu MX4 Antutu score might not be a total surprise, after all we have seen the Meizu MX4 taking the top score on Antutu two times before. Those Meizu MX4 Antutu top scores were before the launch of the Top Flagships Galaxy Note 4 and Sony Xperia Z3 though. We were not sure if the Meizu MX4 with Mediatek can defent the top position against the mighty Galaxy Note 4 – but it seems the MX4 can hold the top position, even if only by 170 points against the Note 4.

Read our initial Meizu MX4 Hands On 

The Antutu Top 10 was created with data from 160 countries. With models like the Note 4 with different cpu’s for different regions, only the better performant CPU was taken into account. In the end the Meizu MX4 has the Antutu Top Position at 48,792 points, tightly followed by Galaxy Note 4 at 48,622 points and Galaxy Alpha with 48,385 points on Antutu.

IF we have a look at the Top 10, its mostly dominated by Smartphones with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Chipset. It seems that things are slowly changing though. If we look at the top three, we see three different SOC’s. The Top 10 Winner Meizu MX4 with Mediatek’s MTK6595, the Galaxy Note 4 with Samsung’s own OctaCore Exynos 7 and the Snapdragon 801 in Galaxy Alpha ( that means that Samsung’s Exynos 7 OctaCore CPU performed better then the Snapdragon 805 version of the Note 4).

This Top 10 shows us definitely that Qualcomm is not anymore the only Top CPU player in the game. It will be more then interesting to see how this develops. Will Qualcomm be able to regain their top position with the upcoming 64bit Octa-Core 810? What will Xiaomi’s do with the Leadcore SOC platform?

Anyways Meizu has achieved to gain all of our attention. The Meizu MX4 has just launched in September and is already very high in demand. The MX4 sports a 5.4″ inch screen with Full HD resolution 1152×1920 and 418ppi. Next to the mentioned Octa-Core Mediatek processor, it comes with 2GB RAM, 16 or 32GB of RAM and a impressive 20.7MP Sony CMOS IMX 220 Main Camera. The battery is at 3100mAH provides good enough battery life in most tests.

In China the Meizu MX4 sells at 1799 yuan, slightly cheaper then the competition of Xiaomi MI4 and OnePlus One at 1999 yuan. Internationally it is a bit harder to get though and easiest to buy via resellers like AliExpress at the moment.