Speed Test: Samsung Galaxy A32 vs A42 vs A52 vs A72 Comparison! By TechDaily

What's going on guys, my name is wade with tech daily and in this video we are going to be doing a speed test comparison between four different Samsung Galaxy, a series phones, the a32, a42, a52 and a72. Now, obviously, these devices differ in a lot of other ways beyond just their specs, but if you're curious about speed, if app load times or gaming performance or more of what you're looking for that's exactly what we're going to test here, and we'll get into all that in just a second, but before we dive on in, I do just want to quickly go over each device. So we know what we're working with for this video we'll be testing out the regular Samsung Galaxy a32. There is a 5g version of this phone, a totally different device with different specs and everything, but I'm saving that for a different video. Next we have the Samsung Galaxy a42 5g and with this phone there's only the 5g version. So, that's why it's here then we have the regular Samsung Galaxy a52 again there is a 5g version of this phone, totally different device that we'll test out in a separate video and finally, the highest end a series phone currently available, at least for 2021, the Samsung Galaxy a72, with this device, no 5g version or a different model, or anything like that.

So hopefully that all makes sense, and you have an idea of the actual phones being tested here with that. Let's now go ahead and go over the specs and geek bench scores for each of these devices. You can see all the geek bench scores right there, and I'll go ahead and break down. What's inside each device. The a32 is powered by the MediaTek hello g80 processor and my device here is the model with four gigs of ram inside.

So keep that in mind the a42 packs the Qualcomm snapdragon 750 5g processor, inside with six gigs of ram. The a52 has a snapdragon 720 g chipset paired with six gigs of ram as well, and finally, the a72 actually has the exact same processor, the snapdragon 720 g chipset, but with eight gigs of ram. Also, before we get started, all these phones have been updated to android 11 and one UI 3.1 they've also been set up the exact same way as well, with all the same settings, the same apps installed, or at least as close as I could get it. A couple of the default. Samsung's apps differ slightly, but they are as identical as I could make them, and the battery's also been charged up to about 100 as well.

So everything here between these four phones should be as equal and as even as can be in order to offer you a fair, side-by-side test and just one final thing. I should mention the a32, a52 and a72 all offer a high refresh rate 90 hertz display, while the a42 has a 60hz display and while the display refresh rate doesn't have anything to do with speed or performance or load times. You may notice, throughout the test that animations and scrolling and general tap and touch interactions might be smoother on those devices compared to the a42. So I've, given you all the disclaimers and information, let's just go ahead and dive right into the comparison now and to start off. Like always, we'll begin with some default android apps and everyday social media apps.

Now I think in general, unlike some other speed tests, we've seen since these phones are just so closely spec'd you're, probably not gonna, see a huge difference with the easy stuff. I can pick out a few instances where you might save a fraction of a second or less on some phones, but I think android, 11 and Samsung's. One UI updates are just so well optimized. Now that these 2021 a series phones, at least this selection of the higher tier ones, perform almost identical to one another and that I think, is great to see. Actually.

At the same time, though, if you were hoping to notice a big performance boost in the highest end devices, maybe the a52, and especially the a72- it just doesn't seem like we got that this year again at least with this simple stuff here- and I realize that there are a couple of other factors in play, especially with certain page loads and website, browsing and app launching you'll notice. Sometimes the phones will take turns loading, something like a website first, depending on the connection and everything but, like I said, with a lot of this easy stuff, there's just not much of a difference at all, even jumping into the social media, apps like Twitter and Instagram and YouTube. I think performance, wise I'd, be happy with any one of these phones, and I didn't really notice any issues lag, blips or anything else that immediately jumps out at me here. In fact, in these apps, the performance is almost identical across the board, no matter what it is, I'm doing so, if maybe your main use with your smartphone is just web browsing and social media and videos stuff like that, and you want to save a little of money. I don't really see anything wrong with going down a notch or two with these phones, since there's literally no difference in performance anyway.

Now I think the first sort of indication that a difference does exist between these four phones is when you start wanting to do a couple of things at once. For example, if you have a YouTube video playing off to the side and decide to do something else, on your phone you'll notice here that the a32 does start to fall behind and that I believe has to do mainly with the fact that it packs just the four gigs of ram inside versus six gigs and eight gigs on the other phones, and this makes sense nowadays. Four gigs of ram is plenty to get the job done, but power users will start to notice that the phone starts to have some trouble. Keeping up and by comparison going from four gigs of ram to six, I think, is a decent jump up, whereas going from 6 gigs to 8 on the eye, 72 maybe doesn't afford you the same kind of noticeable difference. You'll also see here that, on the 832 in particular, apps, don't always stay current and pre-loaded in the background like they do on the other devices, even though we only have maybe 8 or 10 apps running at this point, some of the apps we launched just a couple of minutes ago either needed to be refreshed or completely relaunched, while the rest of the lineup has the apps pre-loaded and ready to go now.

Is this a huge deal for the a32? I don't really think so, but it just sort of depends on what you do. If you're constantly switching between apps having stuff reloaded all the time or losing your place in an app, it might be a little annoying, but I don't think it's a hugely detrimental performance issue, just more of a slight limitation depending on your usage. So when we jump into some gaming apps, I actually think there are a couple of things worth noting first off. This is where it becomes maybe a little more obvious that the a32 is under powered compared to the rest, there's now a more noticeable difference in app load times. It's gone from a split.

Second or two, maybe to now a number of seconds in between every screen granted, the difference is still small compared to a lot of other phones, we've seen in speed tests before, but it is still there nonetheless- and this obviously has to do not only with the 4 gigs of ram, like I explained earlier, but also the less powerful processor as well. The other thing you might be able to pick out is that from time to time, the a42 5g might actually load up a little quicker than even the a52 or a72. And if you remember that I mentioned at the start of the video powering, that phone is the snapdragon 750 5g chipset, which is technically a better chipset than the 720g in the a52 and a 72. Now, obviously, the difference is barely noticeable in some instances. But it is so interesting to see that Samsung for some reason, decided to stick that processor in the a42 which, by the way, came out back in like November of last year and now with the brand new a52 and a72 devices.

Not only do they get the same processors as one another, but they're technically a slightly lower spec than the a42 now, fortunately, no matter what phone you might end up getting in-game performance is, in my opinion, flawless across the board. There isn't a single issue here that I can see with playability, no matter what app you might want to run and that's great to see. So, if you maybe feel like you're, not getting as powerful a phone as you want with one device over another rest assured that you probably won't notice a difference. More than anything, I think what this speed test shows is just how close these phones are in specs and performance this year in previous generation, a series phones. I thought it was rather obvious that each bump up and model got you better specs and better performance, but this year that's just not necessarily the case.

Samsung is sort of all over the place with what they put inside their phones when they get released. What regions get what models its kind of a mess, but I think the most important thing to consider is just that, at least with these four a series phones, the difference- is almost negligible. It's not something you'd notice much during day-to-day use, and that might mean that snagging, the a52 instead of the a72, is maybe more worth it or even getting the a42. Instead, since it's technically got more power inside or maybe that having to settle for the a32, isn't much of a saddle at all, it can certainly keep up with a majority of the stuff you want it to do so there you go. I hope this side-by-side speed test comparison was relatively helpful, while it maybe wasn't a huge, drastic difference.

As some of my other speed tests are, I think it's still revealed a lot. What do you guys think? Were you surprised by the results here? Let me know in the comments down below I'd love, to know your thoughts, of course, but hopefully you guys did enjoy this video, be sure to file tech daily on Twitter and subscribe the tech daily YouTube channel. If you haven't already, and I'll see you guys later.

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