Apple iPhone 8 Plus vs. Samsung Galaxy Note 8: a speed test

28 September 2017
Is the A11 Bionic chipset faster than the Snapdragon 835? UFS faster than NVMe? 

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Surficial, 28 Sep 2017Do the tests with an Xz1 compact and a oneplus 5, the faste... moreI agree with the comments based on the gsmarena review

The iPhone 8 posted mind boggling Geekbench 3 scores, the iPhone 8 single core score in some cases beat the some other flagship multicore scores, in any event the Note 8 was nowhere near the iPhone 8
So you watch this video and you realize that the lagging comments must be based on score alone

The XZ 1 compact did NOT post the best benchmarks by far http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_xz1_compact-review-1660p5.php

The real life performance however as you can read was excellent... OK

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    Ben, 28 Sep 2017To everybody who says samsung is faster just shut up and wa... moreSamsung even doesn't have control over Android. Consider that.

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      Hoffmann, 28 Sep 2017I don't need to watch a video about it. I know that even th... moreDude. don't watch! at least Read.

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        I'm an android user since ever, from Apple the only things I had was some iPods (old one and an iPod Touch).
        I love Android and I hate iOS, but Apple's hardware is impressive, specially GPU.
        All in all, a smartphone with Apple A11 Bionic + 6GB/8GB RAM running Android 8 would be the best. Period.

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          Tech-9, 28 Sep 2017just because iPhone have double faster memory read speed ... moreAlso the iPhone renders half of the pixels which is much less demanding to the gpu and processor!

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            I don't need to watch a video about it. I know that even the iPhone 6s beats the Note8 and any other Android phone. Hate to say it, but it's true

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              Do the tests with an Xz1 compact and a oneplus 5, the fastest phone and the best multitasker respectively.

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                okcnaline, 28 Sep 2017One's just going to slow down within a few months. Buy a fl... moreWhile having a brick on your pants with no ability to use one handed screams usability ... oh please. Bezeless is a godsend to usability if done right (proper palm rejection). It's what was needed for year in phones (both big screens *and* small size)

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                  AnonD-481725, 28 Sep 2017To be honest, i have watched multiple speed tests of iPhone... moreNo, your mindset is unstable.

                    just because iPhone have double faster memory read speed mean iphone can open games faster

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                      Anonymous, 28 Sep 2017I think apple chips are amazing its ios that sucksYou're right!

                        One's just going to slow down within a few months. Buy a flipping Sony phone; bezellessness ruins usage.

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                          Anonymous, 28 Sep 2017I think apple chips are amazing its ios that sucksI agree. Would never switch Android to iOS, but their chipsets would be nice to have and run Android.

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                            AnonD-80334, 28 Sep 2017Also Note 8 is not running Oreo, latest android.Thanks cousin!!!!

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                              The objective Guy, 28 Sep 2017This is hardly an excuse. Apple has total control over Hard... moreAlso Note 8 is not running Oreo, latest android.

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                                Samsung is the master of the real workhorse multitasking phones. The synthetic boosting of performance during the first 2 minutes of a benchmarking app that Apple does with their "bionic chip" has nothing to do with real life usage.

                                  Anonymous, 28 Sep 2017I wonder when people realize that this is absolutely NOT th... moreAdding hundreds of gigs of RAM to iOS simply won't make any difference as iOS DOESN'T use neither app caching nor suspend to RAM.

                                    Ben, 28 Sep 2017To everybody who says samsung is faster just shut up and wa... moreEven the mediocre Android phone beats anything Apple has to offer when it comes to launching anything that is suspended to RAM as iOS simply doesn't work that way. RAM is about 100x the speed of NAND. This is curtsey of Linux RAM management.

                                      Rioma, 28 Sep 2017Note 8 won only because a11 is don't work very well with ip... moreThis is hardly an excuse. Apple has total control over Hardware and Software, hence it should be optimized from the get go, while Android shares SW and some Hardware between manufacturers.

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                                        Ben, 28 Sep 2017To everybody who says samsung is faster just shut up and wa... moreokay fanboy