The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review
by Joshua Ho on October 15, 2014 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Samsung
- Android
- Mobile
- 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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reininop - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I agree on some points. When he describes in one sentence how the UI is "surprisingly functional", it implies some degree of expectation that the UI was broken before he even reviewed it. In the next sentence, he then describes the much more functional Iphone 6 software stack.I have not used either so the statement maybe be completely factual, but I have to take it with a grain of salt when there is obvious bias in the previous statement.
grayson_carr - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Doesn't he say the Note 4 software is more functional, but the iPhone 6 Plus software is more polished? I would have to agree with that having used both phones.theduckofdeath - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
All other sites are complaining about the lack of polish for the iPhone 6 plus, that nothing is optimised for the large display. In contrast, everything is optimised for the large display on the Note 4. So, yeah, I agree with the OP. Anandtech has been suffering from acute RDF for several years.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
10 thousand+ apps have already updated on iOS to support large display in iP6. Apps will catch up much faster than expected.melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Um, about the same.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
zug zug the battery is better because it has more Li ions zug zugreality: battery life depends of efficiency of calculations
clumsyalex - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Hey these photos/videos were taken at UCLA!kmmatney - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Yep! I spent many years there getting my BS and MS in Materials Science (1988 - 1994). The building on the right didn't exist when I was there. I think that's Sproul Hall in the distance.kokono - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Why Apple is still faster??It has only a double core cpu and no RAM..
melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Different philosophy. Instead of using four weak cores, they use two strong ones. Comlanies using eight cores generally are using four BIG, and four LITTLE. All of those cores are weaker yet. There's just so much you can do with similarly sized chips.