- Hey guys. We have another experiment
with the Galaxy S9+ today.
I kinda want to see,
unlike previous videos that I'll link below
where I put it up against the other flagship devices
that have been out,
I want to see how it did against its own brethren.
So what that means is I put against the Note 8,
the S8, and the S8+ in a speed test and a battery test
to just kinda see where it paces,
how progress is being made, etc.
In this video though, we're gonna start with a speed test.
Now, for this speed test, and again, as always,
if you guys have a better solution for a speed test,
please let me know in the comments below,
would love to hear from you.
But I'm going to take some popular apps
and a couple popular games and open them all
at the same time on the devices.
Line those up so that we can see which one is rendered
or opened faster, by how much, etc.
And that's kind of representative of things
that we do everyday,
but of course, not really a scientific test.
So with that said, let's start with Twitter.
And it seems that the Note 8, the S8,
and the S9 are all tied for about the same,
at a little over two seconds,
with the S8+ lagging just a little bit behind
by another second.
Next up, we have Facebook.
And in this one, we have the Note 8, the S8, and the S8+
all around about the same time, a little over three seconds,
with the S9+ actually taking two extra seconds.
Now let's do YouTube.
And as near as makes no difference,
they're all about the same speed.
The Note 8 technically was a hair faster
than the S8 and the S8+, which were tied,
and the S9+ came in last technically, but not by much.
Now Google Maps.
And in this one, the S9+ won at a hair over two seconds,
followed by the Note 8, then the S8+, and finally the S8.
But again, all of these are pretty much
around the same speed.
Now let's do Pokemon GO.
(tambourine and light bongo)
And this one, it looks like all the devices,
besides the S9+, are done.
And finally the S9+ is done,
which gives us total times of 13 seconds on the S8,
followed by the Note 8 with 15, almost 16 seconds,
the S8+ at 17, and the S9+, I assume something went wrong,
at 27 seconds.
(light electric guitar)
Now let's do Super Mario Run.
And all of them about the same speed.
We have the Note 8 at 10:35, the S9+ shortly there after,
followed by the S8 and the S8+.
Finally, let's do Sonic Dash.
(jazz music)
And basically all the same speed on this one.
A little over 10 seconds, the S8 lagging
a little bit more behind, and the S9 as well
than the S8+ and the Note 8, but again, very similar.
There we go, so what can we learn from this?
The big takeaway I really have first off is that
the S9+ obviously didn't win in all of the situations,
which is what you would assume would happen because it does
have the Snapdragon 845 in it,
compared to the 835 that all the other three phones have.
But it just goes to show that there's
a lot of other factors besides just the processor.
Also, if I were to run this test over,
and over, and over, and over,
which I just don't really have time to show you or do,
maybe we would've gotten slightly different results.
For example, the Facebook test and the Pokemon GO,
where the S9+ is much slower than the other devices.
I would imagine it had something to do with the cache
or something like that not being cleared
and had to go through it, just...
Those seem like flukes and outliers to me,
more so than a consistent statistical analysis
of what the phone can do.
So, I think the bigger takeaway here is more of the fact
that all of these phones are relatively,
besides those two flukes, within about
the same amount of timeframe.
It could've gone one way or another by a second or two.
And so, I think that kinda just goes to show
that even though our processors and all of this other stuff
is getting faster and better, most of the apps
that we use everyday, like these ones I showed,
and maybe it'd be very different if we had something
that was way more intensive or using
for over a long period of time, like a more intensive game,
then maybe we'd start to see some more of a difference
between those processors and everything, but otherwise,
they're all pretty much the same, right?
So it makes me kinda wonder what we're using
all that processing power for.
I'm sure again if there was an intense game,
it would be a very different situation,
so if you do use it for that, then that makes sense.
But yeah, I don't know, interesting.
Let me know what you guys think in the comments below,
would love to hear from you guys,
of this experiment, of the video itself.
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