The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review
by Joshua Ho on October 15, 2014 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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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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dakishimesan - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
You can't ignore maximum brightness. OLED screens have a high contrast ratio because their black levels are very deep, which offsets the lower brightness to still give it a high ratio. But maximum brightness still matters for visibility outside.theduckofdeath - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
You can however dismiss its importance. If the dynamic range is below the thousands on one tech and maybe above the millions on the other tech, other numbers suddenly become really, really irrelevant.JoshHo - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
This is technically inaccurate. Outdoor visibility is primarily determined by maximum brightness and diffuse reflectance, not native contrast.jnb - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I played around with an iPhone 6 Plus and the Note 4 at Best Buy the other day. I thought there was a big difference in the display with the Note 4 being much better. It is interesting to see a review like this say there are basically equal. It goes to show that you should really look at them in person and form your own opinion. These numbers don't mean anything to an average person.melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
That's very misleading. While the blacks are just a small bit better than the best LCD displays, the whites are half as bright. In normal lighting, the much dimmer AMOLED displays will look fine, but outside, in direct sunlight, they will be washed out.The GS5 is definitely not more readable outside. So just go ahead and ignore reality. Brightness is directly responsible for readability outside. It's not magic.
Tams80 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
It's not just brightness. I don't know what Samsung have done here, but Nokia CBD (proper CBD) increased sunlight readability without just increasing screen brightness.theduckofdeath - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
It's not "a small bit better", it's a much bigger difference than what you get between TN and IPS. 100's times bigger in fact.skinygeek - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Wondering how the Battery life of Exynos Variant would be . The 20nm Tech should give it an edge.danstek - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Is the graph comparing camera focus latency missing? Not showing up for me.juicytuna - Sunday, October 19, 2014 - link
It's there now, but unfortunately too late as most of the sites readership will miss out on knowing how awesomely fast the camera is.A stark contrast with the iPhone 6 review where the phase detect autofocus was put on pedestal and showered with confetti.