So at this point, you should know that Samsung uses two chipsets for their flagships.
One is their in-house Exynos chips and the other one is from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon
chipset.
North America and China get the Snapdragon chipset while the rest of the world gets Exynos
chipset.
Historically we've seen that Exynos chips tend to perform better than their counterpart
except in the GPU department where the Adreno GPU is better than the Mali one that we see
on the Exynos.
But from a couple of years, the story is totally different, it looks like Samsung isn't doing
a good job in optimizing their own chipsets because the Snapdragon is taking a lead both
in CPU as well as the GPU.
We've seen that on the Galaxy S10 and we're seeing it again for the Galaxy Note 10+ as
well even though the Note 10+ has the latest Exynos 9825.
Gary from Gary Explains did a speed test side by side between the Snapdragon 855 and Exynos
9825 units of the Galaxy Note 10+.
In my opinion, this is the best smartphone speed test on the internet, nobody does it
better than Gary especially with his commentary, I'll link down the full video in the description
box below.
This speed test checks both the CPU and GPU performance of the handsets and when the test
starts, both the device go neck and neck for the first few tests but after the test 7 which
is for the framerates, the Snapdragon variant starts taking the lead and never looks back.
At the end of the test, the Snapdragon variant beats the Exynos by a massive 20-second difference.
It's massive when you consider that both of these chipsets are the latest and greatest
from these two companies.
If you break it down, the Snapdragon 855 beats the 9825 by 3 seconds in the CPU department
and by a massive 14 seconds in the GPU department.
We already knew this that Mali GPU is inferior to Adreno but it's kinda surprising that Exynos
is getting beat in the CPU department as well.
Samsung needs to step up their game, to be honest.
The AMD deal will surely help but it's going to take another couple of years I guess.
Samsung tried to compensate this difference on the S10 by giving software updates like
the night mode to the Exynos variants months before they rolled it out to the Snapdragon
variants, but that's not going to cut it out.
The difference is huge and they need to do something about it and not wait for the AMD
deal to go through.
So it looks like not all the third-party headphone dongles are going to be compatible with the
Galaxy Note 10.
The Galaxy Note 10 doesn't have a headphone jack and Samsung isn't providing a dongle
inside the box either.
SamMobile found out that the dongle we get with the Galaxy Tab S5e doesn't work with
the Galaxy Note 10.
The reason they're explaining could be related to the DAC.
You see, normally digital to analog audio conversion happens in the smartphone itself
but in the case of the Note 10, it looks like it happens in the dongle.
So you need a dongle that actually does it, the majority of third-party dongles doesn't.
So if you need a dongle for your expensive headphones then buy it from Samsung themselves.
It costs $14.99.
The Galaxy Note 10+ also comes with a 3D scanner that enables you to scan and create 3D models
of real life objects.
Samsung showcased it at their event but it wasn't available on the handset up until now.
A lot of you told me that you can't find it on the Note 10+, well that's because you need
to install it from the Galaxy Store.
The app name is 3D scanner and it's available on the Galaxy store not the play store.
This uses the time of flight sensor to create real life 3D models which means the smaller
Note 10 won't support this app.
Also the S10 5G and Galaxy A80 have a time of flight sensor so Samsung might enable it
in those handsets as well in the future.
Let me know if you have any questions about this down in the comments, I would love to
answer them and also consider subscribing if you haven't already and as always I'll
see you tomorrow...Peace out!