iPhone 6s vs Samsung Galaxy S7 speed test

Is the new Samsung Galaxy, S7, the fastest phone up there? To find out, let’s put it against the current fastest phone up there, iPhone 6s Plus.

The Galaxy S7 runs in serious banks, with a Quad-Core Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM and Adreno 530 Graphics. On the other hand, the iPhone 6s is no slouch either, with a Dual-Core Apple A9 Chip, 2GB of RAM and PowerVR Graphics.

Specs are great on paper, but the real question in how do they actually perform? To find out let’s turn to the Geekbench 3 tests, which primarily focuses on the CPU.

Geekbench 3 does a good job of testing real-world performance, considering the Galaxy S7 as twice as many quarters the iPhone 6s, it gets a small but substantial leading the multi-thread side, over for singletary performance the iPhone is still king.

Next we’ve got GFXBench, which is all about testing the graphics performance, this isn’t important to make sure the phone is nice and smooth as well as how to handle gaming. The big differences between the iPhone 6s and the Galaxy S7 are the screens, when the iPhone has a fairly standard 1080p screen, the Galaxy S7 has a much more pixel density 1440p panel, which means that the processor inside has to do a lot more work to keep things running smoothly.

One features becoming more and more important these days is a fingerprint reader, I tried to find out which one of the iPhone 6S and the Galaxy S7 is faster. At first glance both phones are incredibly fast, scanning your fingerprint, unlock the phone, just as fast as you can press the button. However, if you watch it back in slow motion you will see the Galaxy S7 a bit faster, mostly because they get you immediately to the home screen when the iPhone spent a second giving you a big animation bring all your icons on screen. It looks cool but it wastes time, Galaxy S7 is just faster here.

My next test was to capture 30 seconds on each phone and then exported to see how long it takes. The iPhone has a major advance thanks to iMovie, I don’t know if this is a fairly solid video editor but also iPhone 6s is much faster exporting videos than the Galaxy S7.