OnePlus Nord vs. iPhone SE Speed Test By PhoneBuff

Real, quick before we get started, I want to update you guys on how we conduct these tests here at phone buff. Now, normally we wait until a phone is publicly available before we conduct any tests, so that way, we're testing on the final software and that way we're testing the same version of the phone that ultimately ends up in your hands. Now that said, the community has made it clear that people want us to publish our results sooner so in an effort to find a balance in an instance where a manufacturer sends us the device early like OnePlus did with the word. I've decided we'll go ahead and cautiously test. These phones, if we feel like the software, are stable enough, but at the end of the day, because this is still technically pre-release software, it's important to me that we verify these results after the public release and will report on any changes on the YouTube community tab or on any of our socials. So if you want those reports, you can follow us there, but with that out of the way, I have to say, I've been looking forward to the speed test.

Now, normally, I have at least some idea as to which phone is going to win, but in this case it can go either way in the first lap. The iPhone SC has that industry-leading a13 bionic chip with NVMe storage, while the word only has the snapdragon 765 and the slower UFS 2.1 storage, but then in the second lap the word has 12 gigabytes of ram for the model that we're testing here, while the iPhone SC only has three gigabytes. So while I expect the SC to have the lead after the first lap, the question is: will its lead be big enough to hold off the word for making the comeback? Let's find out? Okay, we'll kick things off by starting the stopwatches on each phone and then jumping into the first row, where the two phones perform similarly on facebook, with the OnePlus word being able to pull ahead in Starbucks, we'll see what happens here while loading this 500-page document in Microsoft Word where the IC just ripped through it, which is the same exact thing it does here in Excel already moving on to the second row, meaning just one row into this thing, and the SC already has a pretty significant lead with it now a full lap ahead and showing no signs of slowing down here in snap seed as the iPhone finishes exporting the photo and begins working on adobe rush, we'll see if the OnePlus word can make up some ground here in snap seed. But unfortunately it looks like the phone is editing. This photo at a slower rate and to make matters worse.

We're now on adobe rush where that a13 bionic chip under the hood of the SE allows it to export that video in flagship time, while the OnePlus word and its snapdragon 765g is rendering this clip at a significantly slower rate. Now this is the same exact clip that we use in all of our adobe rush tests. It's just a 20-second 1080p video with a simple transition effect added on. Yet this small workload took the word an extra 10 seconds to complete, allowing the iPhone SE to continue to pile it on pulling a full three apps ahead with both phones. Now in the gaming row, we'll see if the word can keep the iPhone from completely running away with it, because if it can at least match the iPhone's performance in these games, it still has a shot at making a comeback in the second lap, where the iPhone SE and its three gigabytes ram has already proven to struggle, while the 12 gigabytes ram in the model of the OnePlus word, that we're testing here will likely be more than enough, but unfortunately for the word.

It loads subway, surfers flip, diving and fit the fats at a slower rate allowing the iPhone to finish their first slap in an impressive 1 minute and 47 seconds, while the OnePlus is still working on that last game in the gaming row. So the iPhone SC has a huge cushion here, even if it does struggle with keeping all these apps open and running in the background here as it is with subway surfers, I don't know if it's going to hurt the iPhone SC enough, where the word could make a comeback. Now, while the OnePlus did load Spotify at a slightly faster rate, it's loading, ESPN and now Hulu at a slower rate, only makes the odds of a comeback that much less likely with it. Finally, finishing the first lap with a time of 2 minutes and 22 seconds or a full 35 seconds longer than it took the iPhone SE to do the same, and while the SC is struggling to keep these last few apps open in the background, the fact that it reloads them so quickly doesn't actually make it that big of a deal allowing it to still complete the entire test in a healthy 2 minutes and 38 seconds. As for the word, the good news is the 12 gigabytes ram does indeed manage to keep all the apps open and ready to go, which allows it to cut down the iPhone's 35.

Second, lead from the first slap down to 22 seconds, coming in with a total time of three minutes flat making the winner the iPhone SE anyways. That is it for me in this video. Thank you guys for watching and as always I'll see you in the very next episode.

Source : PhoneBuff