the xperia 1 mark iii is a huge step in the right direction for sony
and is arguably their best ever smartphone to date but can it compete against the best
android flagship device of the year so far the samsung galaxy s21 ultra in the speed test well
it's gonna be pretty close to core considering they have very similar specifications on paper
they both house qualcomm's latest and greatest five nanometer processed
node run snapdragon 888 chipset they both have 12 gigs of lpddr5 ram and they both have ufs
3.1 storage they've both been updated to their latest available software that being android 11
on both devices with near stock experience on the sony and the sony has a 4k display while
the samsung has a wqhd plus display and they both have 120hz refresh rate panels something that is a
first for sony this time around i've made sure to disable all forms of battery optimizations on both
devices and keep the animation scales locked at 1x on both phones round 1 will be all about boot
fingerprints and face unlock around 2 will be all about initial opening app speed and round 3 will
be all about ram management using my fingers obs let's keep things accurate we're popping gopro
footage at the bottom left hand corner this is technique and without further ado let's go
we're going to kick kickstart round one off here with a simple boot to see which one can power on
quicker than the other it is indeed the xperia one mark 3 with 19 seconds as opposed to 24.5 seconds
on the samsung getting the xperia its first point here going into the phone for the first time
refreshing the app icons and going to the home screen the xperia one mark iii did it a hell of
a lot quicker than that of the samsung picking up its second point and testing out the fingerprint
sensor here we have an ultrasonic one under the screen of the samsung and a physical one side
mounted on the right hand side of the sony the samsung was quicker every single time around there
and unfortunately there is no option for facial recognition on the sony so i couldn't test that
one out closing off round one with two points on the sony as opposed to one point on the s21 ultra
going into round two over here testing out all the apps see which one can open it up quicker the sony
was quicker in opening up the settings app quicker than that of the s21 ultra picking up its first
points in round two while the samsung and sony were neck and neck when opening up the calculator
app and i must just say that i did make sure that the brightnesses were set to max at the start
of round two as well as hooked to the same wi-fi network and all the apps closed in the background
going into our third system app here which is the camera app the xperia one mark iii opens
it up quicker and flipping to the selfie camera was too close to call taking the snap the sony
took it quicker and saved it a gallery quicker being up its third points as opposed to the zero
points on the s21 ultra going into gallery the sony actually opened the app up quicker but the
samsung loaded the page quicker so no point was allocated over there but the sony did indeed open
the photo that we just took slightly quicker than that of the samsung picking up its fourth
points as opposed to the zero on the samsung going into adobe photoshop express over here
the sony was quicker in going into the application and it was quicker in opening up the photo but the
samsung actually loaded the whole page quicker so once again no point allocated that time around
but the sony did indeed save the photo to gallery exporting slightly quicker than that of the
s21 ultra going into adobe premiere rush a video editing program over here an application obviously
going into the sony was quicker in going into the app and into the project picking up its seventh
and eight point over here now we're going to compress a 4k 25 fps video down to 1080p match the
frame rate of 25 frames per second i'm going to leave it at real time here i'm not going to speed
it up bottom right hand corner as you can see it says 100 and the sony is going a tad quicker than
that of the s21 ultra picking up its ninth point over here doing it in just 7.5 seconds two seconds
quicker than that of the s21 ultra's 9.5 seconds the next app that we'll be jumping into today
is spotify and going into this one the samsung decides to snatch its first point here one point
on the samsung as opposed to nine on the sony which is absolutely dominating over here going
into astral vpn since we need a vpn here in china in order to get into the remainder of the apps in
this test the sony opens it up quicker now getting into that double digit point phase with 10 points
as opposed to one on the samsung and enabling the vpn was too close to call on both devices
going into our first app that requires a vpn here in china is google chrome and going into that one
the sony no surprise opens that one up slightly quicker as well now the samsung has been around a
lot longer than the sony so you would expect it to be slightly more optimized but that's where you're
wrong because the sony is actually more optimized with android since it's so darn near stock where
samsung has a pretty heavy skin on top of it going into facebook it was too close to call since they
open up different things at different times with the same end result but the samsung did indeed
open up instagram slightly quicker than that of sony going into twitter once again too close to
call here so no point was allocated so far so good for the sony 11 points as opposed to two not so
good for the samsung two points over there going into youtube over here slightly quicker on the
sony picking up its 12 points and going into my profile if we can ever find it since there's a new
incognito mode jumping into that one the sony once again snags another point making 13 points on the
sony as opposed to just two points on the samsung going into one of my videos on youtube the sony
opened it up quicker played it quicker and loaded the whole page quick as opposed to the samsung
picking up its 14th point going into our next video streaming service which is of course netflix
i'm pretty sure you guys have heard of it jumping into that one the sony was quick and open ended up
but the samsung went into my profile slightly quicker over there making it 15 points on the
sony and three points now on the s21 ultra going into our first benchmark of two here geekbench
5 version 5.4.1 running the benchmark i've sped it up bottom right hand corner and then slowed it
down after the sony gets the point 16 points now 236 seconds as opposed to 3 minutes and 37 seconds
on the samsung usually samsung gets a single core of over a thousand and a multicore close to three
thousand but this time it was pretty much half that in terms of single core which is pretty
strange and sony did better than what the samsung usually does anyway so the point was definitely
allocated and awarded to the sony xperia one mark iii going into our second benchmark over here
which focuses more on graphics and not so much on cpu like we saw in the previous benchmark which
was geekbench this is 3dmark wildlife this is just a one minute little stress test nothing too
strenuous on the device one minute 10 seconds for the sony as opposed to one minute 14 seconds on
the samsung with 34 fps on the sony as opposed to 30.7 frames per second on the samsung once again
sony taking the crown over here with 17 points as opposed to just four points on the samsung galaxy
s21 ultra going into our first game of four here which is subway surfers jumping into this one it
usually loads pretty similarly on android devices not this time around it is indeed allocated toward
the sony now picking up its 18th point with just a second or two behind that the samsung opening up
the same game going into our second game over here third last game of the 23rd last game of
the four games and 20 apps over here temple run two set it up slow it back down sony xperia one
mark iii picks up its 19th point can it make it to 20 sorry to say samsung there is no way of coming
back even if you get eight points in the last two games second last game over here is among us
really great game i'm sure you guys have played it before going into this one strangely enough
the samsung galaxy s21 ultra opens it up quicker but just a smidge of a second quicker than that
of the sony making it five points on the samsung as opposed to 19 points on the sony xperia 1 mark
iii going into our last game over here which is pubg mobile a little bit longer to load
than previous games that we've just been opening it does crop the borders on the sony when in full
screen gesture mode that is fixed when in three button mode but of course the sony picks up its
20th point here as opposed to the five points on the s21 ultra locking up round two with four times
the speed as opposed to the s21 ultra good on you sony going into ram management over here i only
allocated points if one phone keeps an app open and the other one kills it or vice versa if both
of them kill it no points is allocated if both of them keep it open no point is allocated the
sony kept photoshop express open where the samsung killed it so it got allocated a point earlier when
we opened up the camera app the sony didn't have it flipped facing forward but it doesn't have the
option to keep the mode that was last used where the samsung does so it kept that facing forward
but they actually both kept the app open in the background going into facebook over here that has
to reload things on the page both of them but they did both keep them open same thing with instagram
and twitter and with youtube it still stayed on my profile on both devices so no point was
allocated over here and going into netflix jumping into that one once again no point allocated since
they both kept them open same thing with geekbench 5 and 3dmark wildlife subway surfers was killed on
both devices so once again no point allocated over there both devices kept temple run too open both
of them kept among us open and of course both of them have also kept pubg mobile open meaning that
they pretty much did neck and neck in terms of ram management no surprise over here since they
both flagship phones so to score 23 for the sony as opposed to just six points on the s21 ultra
and if we just focus on raw speed raw performance that is around 220 points on the sony four times
that of the samsung's five points and this time i did something a bit different i added battery
drain over here it took 21 minutes to do the test both of them drained by seven percent battery
but because the samsung has a slightly bigger battery it actually had a worse milliamp
per minute reading this is technic and i'll catch you in the next one you