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Galaxy S7 vs iPhone 6S: Samsung Has the Upper-Hand, For Now (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: To look at Samsung's new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones, on the surface, one might mistake them for only a modest uplift of bells and whistles, and perhaps a light rebuffing of the phone's design language. However, one of the primary new features of the US-targeted Samsung Galaxy S7 is its underlying power plant — Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 system-on-a-chip (SoC). The Snapdragon 820 is based on Qualcomm's new, custom ARM-based core architecture called Kyro. Kyro marks an evolution beyond Qualcomm's venerable Krait core architecture that the company claims offers 2X the performance and power efficiency of their previous-gen Snapdragon 810. In addition, the quad-core Snapdragon 820 has a beefed-up Adreno 530 graphics engine on board as well. In performance testing versus Apple's potent A9 platform in the iPhone 6S Plus, Samsung's Galaxy S7 with the Snapdragon 820 generally outpaces the iPhone in multithreaded performance as well as graphics. The Apple A9 still does a lot of work with just two cores, but overall it looks as though Qualcomm has a highly-competitive SoC and Samsung put it to good use.
Glad that works for you. I like having the ability to refresh the battery in year 3/4. I may be a cheapskate. But, hey, at least I know it!
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LG G5 - now physically bigger, with a smaller screen and smaller battery, and the opportunity to spend an extra $600 on accessories (ahem, "friends") you'll use only once.
(NB: I'm a current G3 & G4 owner, really not impressed with the G5)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Seriously ... words without meaning ....
and perhaps a light rebuffing of the phone's design language.
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Agreed. Apple is way ahead of Qualcomm, and has been for a number of years now. The 2.7 CPU in my Nexus 6 was barely competitive with the iPhone when it came out--with a 145% clockspeed advantage! With that clockspeed advantage, you'd expect the CPU to be way way faster.
There's also something to be said for Safari's performance relative to Android Chrome. The Nexus 6 beats the iPhone 6 in the BaseMark II OS - System benchmark by a good margin, but then loses in Sunspider by a factor of 2. There's obviously some significant room for improvement in either the Android or Chrome software stack (or both).
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