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Tom's Guide: The Galaxy S8 Is Faster Than The iPhone 7 In Real-World Use
How We Test Real-World Speed
Synthetic benchmarks like Geekbench give us some idea of the performance of different phones, and so we use these tests in our phone reviews. But to really determine how the Galaxy S8 measures up to the iPhone 7, we devised the following real-world performance tests as a more thorough way to gauge which device is faster.
Test #1: App-Opening Speed
Your software experience is one of the most critical things about your phone, when you're waiting for a game to load, opening up music app before a workout or multitasking by switching among your favorite social media apps. So for this test, we picked 15 of the most popular apps and games and timed how long it took each phone to launch each program in succession. Before opening all of the apps, we connected each of phones to the same Wi-Fi network, restarted the devices and cleared out any existing background apps to ensure that nothing would interfere with the test.
Winner: Galaxy S8
Test #2: Video-Editing Speed
Given how easy it is to shoot video and post it up on the web with today's smartphones, we also wanted to see how well each phone handled a bit of onboard editing. On this test, we used each phone to capture a 5-minute 4K video at 30 fps, and then used the Adobe Premiere Clip and Videoshop apps to add a filter and convert the movie to a 720p version.
Winner: iPhone 7
Test #3: Camera Open Time
There's an age-old adage that says the best camera is the one you have with you. However, your phone isn't very helpful if it takes too long to open and focus. To find out if there is a difference between the iPhone and S8 in this area, we a set up a separate camera to record at 240 fps and then timed how long it took each phone to launch open its camera app and focus on a subject
Winner: Galaxy S8
Test #4: Wi-Fi Speed
It's not a s3xy stat, but with all the data constantly being sent to and from your phone, wireless throughput has never been more important. And while your*4G LTE speeds depend on your carrier, Wi-Fi speeds do not. So we connected the two phones to the same Wi-Fi network and used the IxChariot Wi-Fi analysis software to see how fast each device's tr@nsfer speeds could really get.
Even though both the S8 and iPhone 7 support 802.11 ac Wi-Fi, not all wireless antennas are created the same. And as some iPhone 4 users learned firsthand back in 2010, the design of a phone can greatly affect the device's reception.
Winner: Galaxy S8
Test #5: Gaming Performance
In 2017, everyone's a gamer of some sort. And while you might not see a difference in graphics power between two phones while playing titles like Candy Crush or Fruit Ninja, there's a vast sea of games that can bring lesser phones to their knees. To figure out if one phone has an advantage over the other while gaming, we hooked up the S8 and iPhone 7 to a PC running GameBench, which measures median FPS and frame-rate stability; we then played a few of the most demanding mobile games on the market, such as Hearthstone and CSR Racing 2.
Winner: Draw
Bottom Line
With a record of 3-1-1, we're giving the Galaxy S8 the win in this speed battle. Samsung's phone opened apps faster, was ready to shoot photos quicker and delivered zippier Wi-Fi speeds. However, in each of the S8's three victories, it's important to point out how close the iPhone 7 was to Samsung's phone, as opposed to the absolute thrashing the iPhone 7 delivered to the S8 in our video-editing tests.
If you've been wondering whether Apple or Samsung makes the faster phone, you now have an answer: It's the Galaxy S8.
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