The Samsung Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ Review
by Joshua Ho on October 2, 2015 8:00 AM ESTSystem Performance
While subjective judgments of performance may be possible to make when the delta is significant, when the gap gets increasingly close within the range of perceivable performance differences it becomes important to rely on more precise and accurate methods of measuring the overall performance of the mobile device. For the most part, when we’re discussing system performance the single biggest factor is often the SoC, which makes sense given that an SoC contains the CPU, GPU, video encode and decode blocks, memory bus, and DSPs. There are other aspects of the device that determine the overall perception of performance and things that can have a meaningful effect on performance, but the SoC is often the gating factor.
In order to test this we run mobile devices through our standard suite of benchmarks. In the case of the Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+, there shouldn’t be too many surprises given the commonality in components with the Galaxy S6.
If you guessed that performance in these benchmarks would be similar to the Galaxy S6, you'd be right. Given the shared SoC and general commonality in components performance remains as high as it is with the Galaxy S6. In some cases we see improvements, likely a combination of changes to Chrome and changes to areas like the frequency governor to respond faster to changes in load. It's probably fair to say that the Exynos 7420 will continue to be the best SoC for Android mobile devices in 2015, although it's likely that we'll see significantly increased competition for 2016.
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nerd1 - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
And that will make apple look really bad. That's why.nerd1 - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
Using stock browser for comparison will make apple devices look worse. That's why they keep using chrome for benchmarking samsung devices.Pissedoffyouth - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
Why? At least Chrome being the same software actually means it shows true SoC power, because it doesn't have sneaky optimisations and shows real world uselilmoe - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
"shows true SoC power".Wrong.
"because it doesn't have sneaky optimisations"
Not sure if hateful or biased... These "sneaky" optimizations do show in real world usage.
lopri - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
But they do not use Chrome on iPhones and iPads. If they have a different standard for those, I would hope they make it clear in every review applicable and remove those iDevices numbers from Android device charts.kpkp - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
No display power consumption curve :-(mpokwsths - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
Ridiculous NAND measurements.Purposely demoting Android phones: http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/articles/171432...
Once again...
vanilla_gorilla - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
Thanks for the review, very thorough as always.I do have one suggestion. It would be really nice if you setup a nice image gallery for these devices when you do reviews. Maybe each picture could link to the gallery? That way we could click on an image and get to see all of the photos of the device.
mayankleoboy1 - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
Could we have a Motox Style and Motox Pure Edition review ?JoshHo - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
It is coming although we won't be committing for an ETA.