AppIe Iphone 7 Vs Samsung Galaxy S7
The iPhone 7
is here, and it’s ready to go up against the best of the best Android
phones in a battle for a substantial chunk of the cash in your wallet.
To win the coveted spot in your hand, it first has to meet the challenge
presented by the Samsung Galaxy S7, which can be considered one of the best Android smartphones of the year.
It’s a clash not only between smartphones, but between manufacturers. The Galaxy S7 has already beaten the iPhone 6S in the sales charts, and Samsung will be hoping for a repeat performance against the iPhone 7. Apple wants it to crush the S7 for its impertinence. Six months has passed since the Galaxy S7 went on sale. Can it really beat a brand-new iPhone? We put the two head to head to find out. It can be a little tricky comparing Apple devices with other phones, largely because of the fact that Apple doesn’t use the same Qualcomm processors that most other major phone makers use, and it’s harder to compare like-for-like apps running on two different operating systems.
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 most commonly has a Snapdragon 820 processor inside, but there are some versions with Samsung’s own Exynos 8890 octa-core chip, which are mostly sold outside the U.S. The quad-core Snapdragon 820 has twice the performance of the Snapdragon 810, and 40x the graphical ability, plus Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 technology inside for fast battery charging. The A10 Fusion is Apple’s in-house designed chip choice for the iPhone 7. It’s the first quad-core processor from the company, and 40 percent faster than the old A9 inside the iPhone 6S.Clever technology sees both chips handle workloads in the most efficient manner, by only utilizing certain cores for particular tasks, minimizing power consumption.
The Galaxy S7 has twice the RAM of the iPhone at 4GB, but Apple has never stuffed its devices full of RAM, and it hasn’t posed a massive problem for regular users. On paper, the Galaxy S7 beats the iPhone, but in real life, iOS and Android work very differently, and the RAM benefits simply aren’t obvious.Turning to benchmarks, the iPhone 7 wins by a landslide. The iPhone 7 scored a whopping 178,397 on AnTuTu’s benchmarks, putting pretty much every other smartphone out there to shame. The Galaxy S7 scored 134,599, which still puts it ahead of most other phones out there, but it can’t keep up with the new iPhone. This perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise. The Galaxy S7 exceeds the iPhone 6S’s benchmark scores, the phone it was really taking on when released, and the 820 has since been superseded by the Snapdragon 821, which gets closer to the iPhone 7 in benchmark tests.
In the storage department, the iPhone 7 comes in options of either 32, 128, or 256GB models, while the Galaxy S7 is only available in 32GB or 64GB versions. The larger internal storage capacity is a welcome, although expensive, benefit on the iPhone; but the Galaxy S7 does have a MicroSD card slot. This means even if you pick the basic 32GB model, you can easily give it a boost. Not so with the iPhone 7.The flexibility provided by a MicroSD card slot isn’t quite enough for the Galaxy S7 to overcome the might of the A10 Fusion chip. It’s impossible to ignore the speed with which it performs, and the fact it’s considerably newer — and will, therefore, remain competitive for longer — than the Snapdragon 820. The Galaxy S7 is fast enough for now, but the iPhone 7 is fast enough for the next year or so, and that makes it the winner here.Winner: Apple iPhone 7
It’s a clash not only between smartphones, but between manufacturers. The Galaxy S7 has already beaten the iPhone 6S in the sales charts, and Samsung will be hoping for a repeat performance against the iPhone 7. Apple wants it to crush the S7 for its impertinence. Six months has passed since the Galaxy S7 went on sale. Can it really beat a brand-new iPhone? We put the two head to head to find out. It can be a little tricky comparing Apple devices with other phones, largely because of the fact that Apple doesn’t use the same Qualcomm processors that most other major phone makers use, and it’s harder to compare like-for-like apps running on two different operating systems.
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 most commonly has a Snapdragon 820 processor inside, but there are some versions with Samsung’s own Exynos 8890 octa-core chip, which are mostly sold outside the U.S. The quad-core Snapdragon 820 has twice the performance of the Snapdragon 810, and 40x the graphical ability, plus Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 technology inside for fast battery charging. The A10 Fusion is Apple’s in-house designed chip choice for the iPhone 7. It’s the first quad-core processor from the company, and 40 percent faster than the old A9 inside the iPhone 6S.Clever technology sees both chips handle workloads in the most efficient manner, by only utilizing certain cores for particular tasks, minimizing power consumption.
The Galaxy S7 has twice the RAM of the iPhone at 4GB, but Apple has never stuffed its devices full of RAM, and it hasn’t posed a massive problem for regular users. On paper, the Galaxy S7 beats the iPhone, but in real life, iOS and Android work very differently, and the RAM benefits simply aren’t obvious.Turning to benchmarks, the iPhone 7 wins by a landslide. The iPhone 7 scored a whopping 178,397 on AnTuTu’s benchmarks, putting pretty much every other smartphone out there to shame. The Galaxy S7 scored 134,599, which still puts it ahead of most other phones out there, but it can’t keep up with the new iPhone. This perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise. The Galaxy S7 exceeds the iPhone 6S’s benchmark scores, the phone it was really taking on when released, and the 820 has since been superseded by the Snapdragon 821, which gets closer to the iPhone 7 in benchmark tests.
In the storage department, the iPhone 7 comes in options of either 32, 128, or 256GB models, while the Galaxy S7 is only available in 32GB or 64GB versions. The larger internal storage capacity is a welcome, although expensive, benefit on the iPhone; but the Galaxy S7 does have a MicroSD card slot. This means even if you pick the basic 32GB model, you can easily give it a boost. Not so with the iPhone 7.The flexibility provided by a MicroSD card slot isn’t quite enough for the Galaxy S7 to overcome the might of the A10 Fusion chip. It’s impossible to ignore the speed with which it performs, and the fact it’s considerably newer — and will, therefore, remain competitive for longer — than the Snapdragon 820. The Galaxy S7 is fast enough for now, but the iPhone 7 is fast enough for the next year or so, and that makes it the winner here.Winner: Apple iPhone 7
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