Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge: Samsung at MWC 2016

Camera

We snapped a few camera samples with the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. Enjoy!

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge camera samples

And here are some 4K videos shot with the Galaxy S7 edge. The first one demoes the lightning-fast autofocus.

Benchmarks

We tested both the S7 and S7 edge and the difference in form factor didn't make a difference in performance, so we united their scores.

Note that this is the Exynos 8890 chipset, which is built on a 14nm process and features a total of eight custom Samsung cores - four small and four big ones. They work together with Mali-T880 GPU to deliver awesome performance.

AnTuTu 6 shows a sufficient gain in performance over the old guard, the S6 edge+.

AnTuTu 6

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge
  114250
• Huawei Mate 8
  91609
• Huawei Nexus 6P
  89345
• Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
  83167
• LG V10
  67547
• Samsung Galaxy A9 (S652)
  64591

Samsung moved away from the stock ARM Cortex cores, but comparing them to the Huawei Mate 8 (Kirin 950, 4x A72 + 4x A53) the two seem on par (we don't have single-core scores for the Mate 8 though).

GeekBench 3 (multi-core)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge
  6395
• Huawei Mate 8
  6323
• Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
  5158
• Samsung Galaxy A9 (S652)
  4759
• Huawei Nexus 6P
  4539
• Sony Xperia Z5 Premium
  4194
• LG V10
  3607

GeekBench 3 (single-core)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge
  2108
• Samsung Galaxy A9 (S652)
  1466

The GPU proved strong at a fixed 1080p resolution, games can even run at native QHD resolution if they keep effects at a sane setting.

Note that the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium seems to top the Galaxy S7 in onscreen tests despite its 4K screen, but that's only because it runs most apps at 1080p.

Update: we had a wrong, low score for the Galaxy S7 on GFX 3.0 Manhattan (offscreen). This has been corrected.

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge
  38
• Sony Xperia Z5 Premium
  26
• Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
  25
• Huawei Nexus 6P
  25
• Huawei Mate 8
  18
• LG V10
  15
• Samsung Galaxy A9 (S652)
  13

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

• Sony Xperia Z5 Premium
  27
• Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge
  25
• Huawei Mate 8
  18
• Huawei Nexus 6P
  17
• Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
  15
• Samsung Galaxy A9 (S652)
  13
• LG V10
  9.5

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge
  26
• Sony Xperia Z5 Premium
  18
• Huawei Nexus 6P
  17
• Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
  15
• LG V10
  10
• Huawei Mate 8
  10
• Samsung Galaxy A9 (S652)
  9.3

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

• Sony Xperia Z5 Premium
  19
• Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge
  15
• Huawei Mate 8
  11
• Huawei Nexus 6P
  11
• Samsung Galaxy A9 (S652)
  9.1
• Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
  6.6
• LG V10
  5.7

Basemark X

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
  26333
• Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge
  24862
• Sony Xperia Z5 Premium
  24281
• Huawei Nexus 6P
  22825
• Huawei Mate 8
  15593
• Samsung Galaxy A9 (S652)
  15290
• LG V10
  15161

The Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge got its revenge in the Basemark ES 3.1 test though with a massive advantage.

Basemark ES 3.1 / Metal

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 edge
  732
• Huawei Nexus 6P
  504
• Sony Xperia Z5 Premium
  482
• Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
  348
• Huawei Mate 8
  311
• LG V10
  297
• Samsung Galaxy A9 (S652)
  253