Galaxy S7 (Snapdragon) vs. Galaxy S7 (Exynos) Speed Test

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There are two variants of the Galaxy S7, one with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 processor and another with Samsung’s own Exynos 8890 chip. In this video, we do a speed test between the two S7 Edge variants to see which Galaxy S7 is the fastest.

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- What's up guys?
David here and today we have
a very special speed test
that involves a little
bit of sibling rivalry
between the Snapdragon and Exynos variants
of the Galaxy S7.
But before we get to racing,
I want to give a quick
shout out to Norton,
the go-to source for
internet security software
who recently released part two
of their documentary series,
The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet.
This latest episode covers
what are called cyber bunkers,
where organizations can safely
host and store their sensitive data.
Like many documentaries of this type,
there are plenty of heated moments.
For example, when the
journalist gets cussed out
by a company that doesn't
want to be videotaped.
It's actually a pretty intense documentary
so if you're interested in cyber security,
you own a phone or you use the internet,
this may be a documentary
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which will be linked for you
down below in the description.
Alright, let's get to the speed test.
So you guys know the drill.
We'll get this thing going by starting
the stopwatches on each
phone and then jumping to the
first row of system apps.
On your left, you have the
quad core Snapdragon 820 S7
and on your right, you have
the octa core Exynos 8890 S7,
which has quickly pulled
ahead in this first lap
with it already finishing
up with Angry Birds
and starting to work on Asphalt 8.
But we're not even half
way through this first lap
so there is still plenty of time
for both variants to show
off what they can do.
And really, it's this first lap that I'm
most interested in seeing
as a phone's processor
can make a significant
difference during the
initial loading of an application.
So we're really getting
to see which processor
is faster with this type of usage
and so far, it looks like
the Exynos is edging out
the Snapdragon with it being
almost a full app ahead.
We're finishing up Photoshop Mix
and heading into Lapse It,
where each phone will create a time lapse
from the same exact video file.
So this could be where the Snapdragon 820
makes up some ground on the Exynos.
Now at this point, it is worth noting
that while the phones are almost identical
outside of their processors
from a hardware perspective,
there are also some
differences in software
as the Snapdragon variant
being tested here is from AT&T,
which has the bad habit
of putting bloatware on their phones.
However, we did disable all the AT&T apps
we were able to beforehand
so in theory the software shouldn't make
too much of a difference.
After finishing up Spotify,
the Exynos variant of
the S7 moves on to the
last leg of this first lap,
loading up both the mobile and the desktop
versions of the Amazon website.
And there you go, it
finishes the first lap
with a time of one minute and 27 seconds,
which is almost a good 10 seconds faster
than the Snapdragon variant's time
of one minute and 36 seconds.
And the Exynos version
looks to keep its lead
with it actually keeping at
least most of these games
open up in the background,
which the Snapdragon variant does not.
So an unexpected turn of events
with the Exynos version
just breezing through
this second lap while
the Snapdragon variant
is having the same old issues we've seen
other Samsung phones have in the past,
struggling to keep all the
apps open in the background,
despite having the same
amount of visible RAM.
So the Exynos variant
finishes the race with
a total time of two
minutes and three seconds,
while the Snapdragon
variant is still stuck
on the gaming row so we'll
go ahead and fast forward it
to the finish line where
nearly 40 seconds later
it logs a total time of
two minutes and 41 seconds.
Okay, so very interesting results.
The Exynos variant did better
than the Snapdragon
variant in that first lap,
which is kinda something I expected.
But what surprised me was
that the Exynos variant
also did better in the multitasking lap,
which I didn't expect since both phones
have the same amount of RAM
and supposedly run on the same software.
But either way, the Exynos variant
is definitely the faster of the two
so it'll be interesting to see how it does
against the iPhone 6S Plus and
other phones down the line.
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Alright guys, that is
it for me in this video.
Thank you for watching and, as always,
I'll see you in the very next episode.