Sam Rutherford and Alex H. Cranz recently published a report at Tom’s Guide crowning the Samsung Galaxy S6 “the world’s fastest smartphone.” “We pitted six of the latest smartphones against each other in nine rounds of competition,” they wrote, “and the Galaxy S6 blew away the field, finishing first in 6 out of 9 real-world tests and synthetic benchmarks.” But Daniel Eran Dilger reported for Apple Insider that the claims made by Tom’s Guide “relied on cherry picked figures and ignored the real world entirely.”
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Samsung’s latest Galaxy S6 flagship phone was introduced in April, seven months after the iPhone 6 launched last September. Dilger reports that because each generation of smartphones delivers significant improvements over the previous year, Samsung’s latest flagship phone should be significantly faster than the iPhone 6. But when you take a less biased look at the figures than Tom’s Guide did, it isn’t.
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When the first Galaxy S6 benchmarks appeared three months ago, Apple Insider reported that while the phone’s graphics performance scores in the GFXBench represented an improvement over those of the Galaxy S5, they were still well behind those of the iPhone 6. At its native resolution, the Galaxy S6 performed worse than 2013’s iPhone 5s because Samsung paired an ultra high-resolution screen with an underpowered CPU and GPU — which results in great specs on paper but poor performance in real life.
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Rutherford and Cranz make no reference to the troubling GFXBench data, and instead cite four “real world” tests in which various tasks were performed. These tests tasked the phones with opening a PDF, launching the camera app, playing a video game, and transcoding a video, and their performance was filmed with a slow-motion camera to find millisecond differences
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