 The S III comes in two distinct variations that differ primarily in the internal hardware . The international S III version has Samsung 's Exynos 4 Quad system on a chip ( SoC ) containing a 1 @.@ 4 GHz quad @-@ core ARM Cortex @-@ A9 central processing unit ( CPU ) and an ARM Mali @-@ 400 MP graphics processing unit ( GPU ) . According to Samsung , the Exynos 4 Quad doubles the performance of the Exynos 4 Dual used on the S II , while using 20 percent less power . Samsung had also released several 4G LTE versions — 4G facilitates higher @-@ speed mobile connection compared to 3G — in selected countries to exploit the corresponding communications infrastructures that exist in those markets . Most of these versions use Qualcomm 's Snapdragon S4 SoC featuring a dual @-@ core 1 @.@ 5 GHz Krait CPU and an Adreno 225 GPU . The South Korean and Australian versions are a hybrid of the international and 4G @-@ capable versions . 
