Samsung: good news Galaxy S7 is unlikely to be equipped with the powerful Snapdragon 820 – 01net.com

At the beginning of March, the new Samsung Galaxy S7 was at the heart of a storm, a chipgate his way. The Korean manufacturer has decided to equip its smartphone two different processors depending on the region where it would be distributed. Thus, the United States were awarded S7 with 820 Snapdragon processor and Europe, S7 equipped with the Samsung home processor, the Exynos 8890.

Nothing to say, if n is that the results obtained with the implementation AnTuTu seemed to give a large advantage – 32% better – for smartphones running the chip Qualcomm

at the test of daily

However, in recent days videos are published online that put side by side Samsung Galaxy S7 rotating with one of the other processors. In this case, the trials ahead are different benchs AnTuTu since this is not taking into account the capabilities of the chip to run 3D intensive or perform complex calculations programs.

No, the task is much closer to what we experience in everyday life. The brothers phones are forced to start a small fifteen applications as soon as possible, twice in a row. In the first round, applications are open for the first time after starting the device. In the second, that is caching that is taken into account.

In both cases, it is the CPU performance and ability to maintain an optimal relationship with the RAM that are put to the test.

Change of fortune

and then, surprise, it’s not the Galaxy S7 features a Snapdragon 820 that comes out best of the event. He completed the first series of launches in 1’36 ”, while the smartphone equipped with a Exynos 8890 achieved by 1’27 ”. And the gap between the performance of both devices increases with the second round. What seems to indicate that the Snapdragon hard to manage and recall the background applications while benefiting from the same amount of memory than his opponent.

What to conclude? Wide debate. Maybe in the end, as say some advertising, power without control is not everything. It is indeed likely that Samsung has further optimized the relationship between the OS and chip.

In this case, it would be further evidence that the relationship between software and hardware is essential and that the benchmark results can provide insight into the potential of a platform but do not have to forgetting to confront reality … the other conclusion could be that we should not worry. A Snapdragon 820 or Exynos 8890 is hiding in your S7, you should have something largely overcome your daily tasks.