Galaxy S20 Ultra vs iPhone 11 Pro Max - Full Comparison! By Max Tech

Hey guys its max, we just got the new galaxy s, 20 ultra, and we're very excited to test it out and not only get our first hands-on impressions, but also compare it to the iPhone 11pro max which I've been using since launch, and this is going to be your typical comparison, where we just talk about specs and read off of the website. We're gonna look at some detailed things, such as the display brightness and quality speakers. Even LTE speeds with the 5g here, compare it to Apple's best offering so, let's go ahead and jump right into it. I'm going to open up the box here and grab that first glance. I know this phone is massive and Wow. Okay, so first impressions, this camera bump is huge.

Not only you know visually, but my finger just rest naturally right up here, and it literally is like pushing against the little edge there. Let me set aside by side with the iPhone, so Apple actually made theirs smaller this year, the camera bump. It doesn't stick out as much and Samsung. They just went all the way now I get away. Samsung is calling this.

The ultra this thing is massive: the camera bump is massive and if you're somebody that doesn't like your phone to rock well Samsung doesn't care about this at all anymore. So if putting on the site by site- surprisingly, that's 20 Ultra feels very similar in weight to the iPhone 11 Pro max, we'll put the weights right up there for you guys. Obviously it is larger, as you guys can see it's taller, but as far as the width here not only is a Samsung's body thicker, but then, when you add in the camera bump, it's a pretty big difference. Now, just like the note 10, we don't have any buttons or switches here on the left-hand side, whereas the iPhone you have your volume rocker, and then you have your physical, silent switch, which I really, really like and then on the other side. Here the iPhone just has this power button.

Where here we have the volume rocker, and then we also have the power button and I like this configuration, where I can do everything with my right hand, since I am right-handed, the iPhone has a lightning port, whereas the CMC has USB type-c, which I prefer and with Samsung. We only have a speaker grille on one side but of course, on the iPhone. This other side is just for looks and let's finish off the exteriors, with the backs they're both made out of glass so that we can have wireless charging. The Samsung is glossy, whereas the is Matt now I like the feeling of the glassy, just because it gives you a nice grip, but the matte just feels more pleasant, more premium and then, of course, we have our camera bumps, and it seems like these phone companies are not trying to one-up each other instead of making small bumps and trying to make everything blend in they're just going massive. So the iPhone made this design here, which looks really nice.

You instantly know who has an iPhone 11 I, really like this looks very premium and the Samsung jumps in with this massive camera bump. It's almost like a Hummer, it's in-your-face compared to a nice Porsche, something like that. Now I will be switching over from the iPhone 11 Pro Max, which I've used since launch and I really like, overall to the s20 ultra for at least a week and then making a video showing you guys. Every single thing I noticed all the fine details of what it's like going over all the good things and also all the bad things so make sure you guys are subscribed. So you guys don't miss out in that video.

Now, as this phone is setting up. Let me talk about the chargers and batteries both come with USB-C chargers now, which is great, so the Samsung is 25 watts compared to 18 watts, with the iPhones and as far as batteries, the iPhone has almost 4,000 William hours, whereas the Samsung has 5000, which is a massive number, but don't expect that you're going to get better battery life, especially if you're going to stay at that 120 Hertz, and now it's time to set up our security and the Samsung does have facial recognition, as you guys see, but it's just using a standard camera. It's not. The ultra secure face unlock face ID that Apple has, so I'm going to go instead with the fingerprint recognition and just like the other phones, they actually have it underneath the display, no don't download, Microsoft Office Excel PowerPoints. None of that none LinkedIn, no things, I knew something's going to happen if they're partnering with Microsoft.

Now they have all this stuff on here. Let's see how this compare. As far as unlocking your phone BAM, we tap pull up very quick Apple's optimize this over time, I pretty much, don't even notice it. Now that I got used to the iPhone and then let's see if Samsung is optimized for their third version of the sensor, so I should be able to just put it in the right spot. There.

You go. That's surprisingly, quick actually, and it's getting it each time now, let's get into comparing the displays and the first thing when a test is that 120 Hertz display now I love that on the iPad Pro and I start flicking back and forth here, and it seems like it's very, very close. So then I went into the settings and out of the box, it's actually defaulted to not only 60 Hertz, just your standard, but it's also defaulted to 1080p resolution. So right for this time we can actually choose between 1080 at 120, or you can get the better quality, but I want to play around with that.120. Okay, there you go there.

It is so you guys are watching out 24 frames per second. Let us give you guys a slow-motion shot right here and you guys could see side by side. We have a lot more frames with the Samsung compared to the iPhone. So you see that smoothness difference when we slow it down. Not only do we have a higher refresh rate, but the animations are also quite a bit quicker on the Samsung.

Now, obviously, we don't need extra frame rates to go through your icons faster. But where do you really notice this 120 Hertz is when you're scrolling through webpages everything looks super sharp and crisp we're not getting motion blur and then just doing simple things like opening up folders and programs. Everything just feels so much snappier and once you get used to a 120 Hertz screen it's hard to go back to a brightness of these phones. We're going to use Google here and, as you guys can see, if we max up both these turn off auto brightness, the iPhone is actually quite a bit brighter and the Samsung. If we close the browser and open it again, it starts out brighter and then dims and that's actually a sort of power saving feature.

So it doesn't get too bright in manual mode and if we open up the verge, and we have less white on the screen, it's about even I was still slightly brighter, but it's very similar. However, if you're going to go outside, and you have auto brightness enabled, then they are very close. In fact, the Samsung might be just slightly brighter as long as you're in the auto mode. Now as far as viewing angles, both of these look very, very similar I see a little more reflections from the Samsung's display, but as far as brightness and contrast I mean they both look very good, and it makes sense because I'm pretty sure that Samsung makes the panel that's in the iPhone. And now, let's compare the display quality when we're playing back HDR videos.

I have two videos opened up right here, and it's very interesting that as soon as you play back HDR, the color balance of the Samsung s20 ultra changes. It gets much warmer, and it's actually brighter, and it allows that screen to get that full brightness compared to the iPhone here now, of course, we're not recording an HDR. So you guys aren't watching back in HDR I had to turn that camera down, so we can see the full brightness without blowing it out, and the first thing that pops out to me personally is how much brighter the whites and the highlights are on the Samsung. Then we didn't have this big of a difference with the note 10 I, don't believe so either they tuned the software or just display is better than the previous ones, but it looks a little richer and in HDR the highlights are just so bright. You could definitely tell us HDR where's, the iPhone.

It just looks like maybe slightly more dynamic range than a standard display. Now I know that I phone doesn't look bad, it definitely looks better than previous ones, but the Samsung is definitely one upping it. And finally, with the displays. Let's talk about those bezels now the iPhone didn't look bad when it launched every day using is totally fine. But when you put a side-by-side with this Samsung, you can clearly see how much thinner the bezels are both on the top and bottom and especially on the sides.

Now the iPhone screen does slightly curve just a little to make it more comfortable, and I'm really glad that with the s 20s, they actually tone down the curve, and now something I'm excited for comparing the speakers and I do want to say that I am going to go in and enable Dolby Atmos, because it does make it sound better. I have no idea why this is not enabled by default. It just does not make sense to me, but there it is, and we're going to go ahead and get started with the iPhone, and I'll cut between them. You guys, let me know which one sounds better to you. In the comment section below now, we are recording with a nice microphone into a recorder, but there's lots of variables it's compressed on YouTube.

It depends on what you're listening through, but I will say that the Samsung is quite a bit louder, actually tested it out with my Apple Watch, and it hit three decibels louder, which is a significant difference now, as far as sound quality in the mid and the highs. I'm. Very surprised by how close these are- and it's interesting to see these phones just one-upping each other after each new phone comes out, so loudness definitely Samsung wins the clarity. It's awesome, but there's also a difference in bass with iPhone 11 Pro Max. You actually feel a little of the thump there, where it sounds more like just like a sound of bass with the s20 ultra wow.

This feels laggy going back and opening this up, not only this little animations but my eyes got used to this ahead and test out the CPU and graphics performance. We do have two snapdragon variant and that is the 865 going against the 13 Bionic. Let's go ahead and test out the CPU, we have a multi-core score that is fairly similar. The iPhone is beating it by just a little, but what the single core the iPhone has over 40 percent more performance in these tests. Now, that is very surprising.

Obviously, Apple is doing a great job with their processors, but I do have to note that in the real world we have more than enough performance with both of these Ram is one of the limiting things with the iPhone we have 4 gigs of RAM and with that I do find that background. Apps will actually close on me at times, and it's really frustrating, whereas with the s20 ultra, we have 12 gigs of ram on this particular model. Now, with the graphics test here, the numbers don't really line up, testing between metal and say OpenCL or Vulcan, so we're actually going to be doing a separate test. We're going to be playing some games, seeing how performs in the real world, and we'll give you guys some benchmark numbers there as well, so make sure you guys are subscribed and now, let's compare the internet speeds I'm, starting off with the iPhone, and I am on T-Mobile. Here and inside we have 3 out of 4 bars of LTE.

Of course, I have one does not have 5g, and this is something I struggle with. Sometimes a certain I have no reception or poor reception and speeds, as well, so we'll see how the have the millimeter wave, but we do have the sub six. It's going to be very interesting to see. So we got nine point, seven megabits per second for both, which is not very good, and that is a pretty significant difference, so we're getting five out of five and once again this is the sub six, which is better at penetrating through walls and buildings and stuff like that, which matters a lot now on the upload. Interestingly, we're only getting about half of what we're getting on the iPhone 5.4 compared to nine point seven. So that is a pretty big difference.

If you care about your speeds, if you want to stream 1080 60fps, HDR, video download things and what I'm really interested about is in this next week that I'm going to be testing out the s20 ultra switching over in certain areas where I have no reception. I want to see if that's gonna, help a lot and I will fill you guys in that video. So now, let's finish off just talking about the prices. Now this phone comes in at $1,100, people were shocked when Apple start charging a thousand bucks for the iPhone 10 and with the s20 ultra Samsung is not being shy at all fourteen hundred dollars for this phone. That is crazy.

It does have 128 gigs of storage compared to 64 over here and for 200 bucks more you go to 512, and I'll also get 16 gigs of ram compared to 150 bucks more on the iPhone, and that gets you to so. This one is more expensive, but it does have some extra features, and especially the LTE both sub 6 and 5 gigahertz and, of course, a lot more cameras. Now you guys saw that we did not cover the cameras. That's going to be a way more detailed, bigger video. There's a lot to compare here, especially with the new additions, so make sure you guys are subscribed with notifications, enable if you guys wanna, see our very detailed camera comparison.

This Ben, Max and I'll see you in the next video.

Source : Max Tech