The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review
by Joshua Ho on October 15, 2014 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Samsung
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- Galaxy Note 4
CPU Performance
For those unfamiliar with the Snapdragon 805, I would refer back to our previous posts regarding this SoC. This is Krait’s final hurrah in a high-end SoC, and is likely to be the best smartphone SoC available for the next 4-6 months as it’s built on TSMC’s 28HPm process, which has strained silicon and high-k metal gate at the transistor level in order to improve performance and reduce power. In order to test the CPU and general CPU-bound performance, we turn to our standard test suite of browser benchmarks. As said before, I’m not quite happy with the state of this suite but for now it can work to provide a decent relative comparison.
Overall, the Snapdragon 805 performs about as well as one might expect, although the benefit from higher clock speeds is generally quite minimal.
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KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
To be fair, the iPhone 6 also charges faster if you use the iPad charger. AT's tests were using whatever charger they put into the box.MattL - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
... and the Note 4 comes with a higher volt charger, that's one of the advertised benefits.Mumrik - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Why all the comparisons to iPhones?I suspect that decision is made long before people arrive at a review like this. Competing Android handsets are what is relevant here.
KPOM - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Not necessarily.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
they plot the data they haveJcm800 - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Err what happened to the comments about the external speaker audio /quality? Did I miss that or something? Great review apart from that.Native7i - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I was here to read some real deep review.wantthefun - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Do you think the battery benchmark is biased to LCDs, since the AMOLEDs may perform much better on videos. I think the battery tables would switch around if the tests changed...MattL - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Agreed... why aren't there more mixed content battery drain tests? Most sites will at least run web browsing + video drain... and some of the more interesting ones will try to run a combined test to show mixed use (probably more like normal use).tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
when the scientific results don't agree with your bias find a test where it will.