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
GPU Performance
While CPU benchmarks are currently a bit poor in nature, our GPU benchmarks are definitely more helpful when comparing between devices and across platforms. In the case of the Galaxy Note 4 with a Snapdragon 805 we see the same Adreno 420 GPU clocked at 600 MHz that is also used in the Galaxy S5 LTE-A so performance should be relatively similar.
Once again, the Galaxy Note 4's GPU performance line up quite closely with what we expect from the Adreno 420. However, due to the higher 1440p resolution the performance improvements from the Adreno 420 are relatively small or none at all unless the application renders at 1080p.
NAND Performance
While NAND performance is generally an area where it's important to avoid dipping too low, there's are some cases that seem to improve in responsiveness with faster NAND, such as updating apps in the background while doing other tasks or similar cases where data committed to NAND becomes relatively random. In order to test this we use Androbench with some custom settings.
As one can see in the test results, Samsung continues to stay near the front of the pack when it comes to NAND performance. One shouldn't expect storage performance to become a bottleneck on this device.
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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.