Samsung Galaxy S8 vs Apple iPhone 7 Plus - One of these just suffered a CRUSHING defeat
SAMSUNG GALAXY S8 has been pitted against Apple's iPhone 7 Plus in the latest series of speed tests, and the shocking result shows that one of these flagship smartphones is twice as fast as the other.
The Galaxy S8 is the latest flagship smartphone from Samsung, and as such, it's brimming with the most powerful components on the market right now.
Powering the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ is the industry’s first 10nm chip, which unlocks better speeds and efficiency.
Samsung has coupled that processor with 4GB of RAM, so clearly, it's no slouch.
Meanwhile, the iPhone 7 Plus is powered by Apple's latest in-house system-on-a-chip, A10 Fusion.
When it launched, the A10 Fusion was the fastest single-threaded mobile system-on-a-chip ever released.
iPhone 7 has 2GB of RAM, and iPhone 7 Plus has 3GB of RAM.
YouTube account EverythingApplePro has devised a speed test to pit the smartphone rivals against one another.
Samsung Galaxy S8 and iPhone 7 compared in speed test
Both smartphones have to open a succession of mobile apps open after another.
The prominent YouTube video-maker also performs a number of quick tasks within certain apps like, for example, exporting an identical video project in VideoShop.
It the latter that really seals the Samsung Galaxy S8's fate.
The flagship iOS and Android smartphones are pretty much neck and neck until the dreaded export task.
iPhone 7 Plus powers through the first round of apps in 3 minutes 38 seconds.
It takes the Galaxy S8 a staggering 7 minutes 35 seconds to complete the same task.
That's almost twice the amount of time.
Fortunately, Samsung Galaxy S8 owners will be unlikely to notice this drop in speed during day-to-day usage.
The Galaxy S8 either matches – or outperforms – the iPhone 7 when loading single apps, like popular social network Snapchat, the Camera, or lightweight mobile game, including Super Mario Run.
In fact, it's only when faced with crunching a monstrous video file, like the project in VideoShop, that any discernible disparity between performance appears.
The video test caused some controversy on YouTube.
Thousands rushed to comment on the video, some praising the methodology, while others blasted the result.
"F••• off every app is best optimised for iPhone, that's why it is quicker," one viewer wrote.
Another added: "Samsung may not have been a great phone in the past but now its ten times better than iPhone."
"Apple 7 plus killed that S8 in over 90% of the tests," one YouTube viewer commented.
Do you agree with the test result? Has it changed your mind about what phone you want to own next? Let us know below.
