Galaxy S8 (Snapdragon) vs. Galaxy S8 (Exynos) Speed Test By PhoneBuff

What’s up guys, David here and like last year, this year the Galaxy S8 is powered by two different chipsets. If you live in a country like the U. S. or Canada, you’re getting an S8 powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835. And if you live almost anywhere else, you’re getting Samsung’s own Exynos 8895. Now while both of these chips are using the same 10nm process, and both are coupled with 4 GB of RAM, there are some differences.

The way the individual cores in each chip are configured are little a bit different, the clock speeds are different, the GPU are different, and the software is optimized to run on each chip may very well be different. Which begs the question – which phone is faster - or is there even a difference? Well, only one way to find out! Alright, we’ll kick things off by starting the stopwatches on each phone and then jump right into the first row of system apps. Where the Exynos variant of the S8 gets the step over the Snapdragon variant after the camera app, but only by a fraction of a second. And while it loads Facebook faster, the Snapdragon loads Snapchat faster so both phones are neck and neck here and Photoshop, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens next in Lapse It where both CPUs will be put to the test. So we’ll pay attention to the rate at which each phone completes processing this time lapse, where it looks like the Exynos completed it at a faster rate, improving on its lead as both phones move on to working on Subway Surfers.

But the lead the Exynos variant has over the Snapdragon variant is a small one, so we’ll see if it can create some separation here in Subway Surfers, and no… it’s actually the opposite with the Snapdragon variant loading the game faster, putting it right back into this thing. So neither phone able to create any kind of separation thus far, but there’s still plenty of apps left to go with the whole second lap remaining. Speaking of which, it looks like the Exynos variant has pulled ahead here in Crossy Road recapturing the lead, and already moving on to Bullet Force. Which by the way – quick shout out to everyone who recommended using this game on Twitter. So we’re loading the offline practice mode here in Bullet Force here, where once again, it looks like the Exynos variant of the Galaxy S8 finished at a faster rate, giving it the biggest lead its had so far in the speed test.

Now before we get into the second lap, I want to let you guys know about a pretty big change in the way the second lap will be performed. In the past, we started the second lap from the top working our way back down, whereas from now on we’ll be starting from the bottom and working our way back up - which will help provide more accurate results. So there you go, the Exynos finished the first lap with a time of 1 minute and 41 seconds, with the Snapdragon variant finishing just 4 seconds later with a time of 1 minute and 45 seconds, so not much of a difference there, of course the big question is how each will do in terms of RAM management, where again last year the Exynos variant did better. So the Exynos variant fails to keep Subway Surfers open, let’s see if the Snapdragon could and no, it has to re-load the game as well. Now, the Snapdragon variant did load Subway Surfers at a faster rate in the first lap as I expect it to do here in the second.

So it should be able to close in on the Exynos variant’s lead, but to be honest unless one of these phones has more apps stored in RAM than the other, I don’t think there’ll be much of a difference. And so far, that seems to be the case they’re pretty much toe-to-toe here in the second lap as they were in the first lap, with the Exynos variant finishing just 2 seconds ahead of the Snapdragon variant, which to me anything less than 3 is below the margin of error so I’m going to have to call this one a tie. Taking a look at the individual app load times from the first lap, you can see where one phone did better in one app, the other phone did better in another app. So don’t worry, your Galaxy performs roughly the same as the next guys. Anyways, that is it for me and this video, thank you guys for watching, and as always I’ll see you in the very next episode!.

Source : PhoneBuff