Samsung Galaxy Note9 performance compared to Galaxy S9+ and Note8

10 August 2018
We're taking a look at how the Note9 performs against the Exynos and Snapdragon versions of the S9+ and Note8.

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  • Anonymous
  • 7XY
  • 11 Aug 2018

It performs almost the same with the s9+ and the s9+ is much cheaper and it cant even catch up in performance with the iphone x which is almost a year old phone

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    • Anonymous
    • 7XY
    • 11 Aug 2018

    Geric.770, 11 Aug 2018Performance aside, this beast is truly the best out there w... moreReally now, is that the best you can do, storage?! Note 9 cant even out perform the iphone x, almost a year old phone so you compete against storage... most average people cant even fill up their 64gb phone, android or ios

    Are you by any chance the marketing genius behind the ingenius commercial from samsung because the storage thing would be the best they can come up with

      Anonymous, 11 Aug 2018These really are negligible differences in real world use. ... moreVery true and completely agree with you. As recent as few weeks, my wife's Note 5 and iPhone 6 plus were working without any major issues (including battery)....I think it is stupidity to buy every year new mobile phones IMO. There is nothing we do that demands so much processing power than what is already available in mid-range mobiles. Gaming indeed takes lots of processing power but not everyone plays the games and even I see people playing games in "feature" phones but there is no limit for pushing the spec without any real-world needs to use those powers. Productivity tools, servers I can understand that you may need good amount of RAM, Graphics Card, Processor etc...but mobiles it would be difficult to cater to it without addressing the main issue of power source for such demanding needs.

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        • Anonymous
        • 2Au
        • 11 Aug 2018

        Geric.770, 11 Aug 2018Performance aside, this beast is truly the best out there w... moreDuhhh 64 GB is enough who the h*** will use their phone to store thousands of files?

          Kangal, 11 Aug 2018What?! It's not. The Exynos 9810 has big implementation is... moreWhilst I agree with you. (And I did try to work with 9810 on my little AR project) I referred to the peak scores.
          3 seconds of one core ticking at 2.7 GHz would mean there COULD be UP to 8.1 billion operations (depending on the code executed during these 3 seconds) and since the execution pipe is rather wide. Quite a lot of the program can be executed in these 3 seconds.
          Otherwise you are 100% correct.

            Performance aside, this beast is truly the best out there what Samsung has to offer. Let's see if iPhones in 2018 still stuck on 64GB base storage.

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              • Anonymous
              • tNw
              • 11 Aug 2018

              Anonymous, 11 Aug 2018These really are negligible differences in real world use. ... moreModern day version of Nokia N95 users that bought their phones for call and texts and occassional camera usage.

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                • Sandeep Chouhan
                • U@y
                • 11 Aug 2018

                Note 9 only one

                  Isn't this a preproduction unit, with unfinished software? We are still two weeks away from the actual launch.

                    will we a fusion next year between Galaxy line and Note line?

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                      • Kangal
                      • RN8
                      • 11 Aug 2018

                      Kiyasuriin, 11 Aug 2018Hooo boy, this is indeed a massive bump compared to note 8 What?!
                      It's not. The Exynos 9810 has big implementation issues, its actually almost as fast as the Apple A11-Bionic, but it can only maintain its true performance for around 3 seconds then it throttles back to 30% at which rate the QSD 845 chipset is much faster. See the Anandtech investigation.

                      In practice, both the QSD 845 and the Exynos 9810 are not much better than the the 2015 Kirin 950 in terms of cpu. Where they've made the most difference is in the GPU and battery life, without any improvements in latency.

                      We're going to have to wait until late-2019 for mature 7nm node matched to higher clockspeeds, and lower-latencies, on properly implemented Cortex A76 chipsets. As any enthusiast knows, the microarchitecture is where the real gains come from... NOT the lithography!

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                        • AnonD-762416
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                        • 11 Aug 2018

                        r33fd, 11 Aug 2018Exynoss is so far behind in GPU power, it's a shame !I guess that is why Samsung has decided to start developing their own GPU, as the ARM GPU isn't progressing at the rate Samsung would prefer.

                          r33fd, 11 Aug 2018Exynoss is so far behind in GPU power, it's a shame !For me, Mali GPU can't complete the Adreno GPU for now. There is 2 GPUs that complete the Adreno GPU. It's Tegra and PowerVR GPU.

                            It's because of the RAM and new UI.
                            Not really much massive improvement from 8895, but hey. It's 2018, and it already beats the A11.

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                              • nDB
                              • 11 Aug 2018

                              Exynoss is so far behind in GPU power, it's a shame !

                                Worst in exynos 9810 very neglable improvements in graphics from 8895 version. But considering single core and multi core performance massive improvement rivals even A11 bionic. SD 845 does not have impressive cup, but excels in gpu graphics. I hope S10 next gen exynos can match adreno graphics keeping same insane cup performance. But this year is all concentration for CPU power

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                                  • Anonymous
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                                  • 11 Aug 2018

                                  Nowadays, Note is just a S+ with pen and 2x the price

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • xW}
                                    • 11 Aug 2018

                                    Dientesdesierra, 11 Aug 2018What a disappointmentOnly for the haters because this phone is a beast. Nothing Apple or perhaps even Google can throw out there can compete for this pound for pound.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • pBC
                                      • 11 Aug 2018

                                      "Samsung’s Water Carbon Cooling should make for better performance under extended periods of gaming or intensive use. Less heat means less CPU throttling and better performance for playing hours of Fortnite."
                                      You should verify those claims before writting this. Quick testing by a youtuber suggests there is no real difference with the S9+

                                        Anonymous, 11 Aug 2018And iOS does not even have a "select all" feature for messa... morewow i just realize that lol