Realme's GT has just released in Europe finally and then this Samsung Galaxy S21 it's been out for
a while and it's a flagship of course from them and i wanted to compare both of these flagships
to find out if the Realme GT is really a flagship killer it does sell for a very good price here
currently at the time of this video under 400 euros versus the about 600 euros to pick up a
Galaxy S21 here in europe so this is obviously being the european version the exynos 2100 model
this has the snapdragon triple eight both have eight gigabytes of ram both of them 128 gigabytes
of ufs 3.1 storage we have a 4000 milliamp hour battery with the samsung versus a 4500
65 watt fast charging versus 25 watt charging and some other big differences that i will go
over in this in-depth comparison to find out the differences between the Realme GT and the
Galaxy S21 then inside the box what is included with Realme we get a 65 watt charger which fully
charges the phone and they claim 35 minutes my testing it's more like 39 minutes but it's
really really fast and we get a type c to type t cable tpu case is included and then samsung
wow it's a tiny box because it does not include a charger at all we get just a type c to type c
cable and then the included paperwork that's it if you want a case if you need
a charger the type c charger you have to pay additional and buy those accessories
so the difference of weight here with them we have about 185 grams versus about 171 here with
the samsung the size difference obviously because the smaller screen on the samsung
6.2 inches versus 6.43 thickness wise there is a bit of a difference here as well we are looking at
about 8.5 millimeters according to my measurements versus then about eight with the samsung so
there's not too much in it there but the plastic that is used on the back of the samsung it does
pick up a lot of fingerprints and because we have this fake leather style uh which is quite nice
it's a synthetic material here with the Realme it doesn't pick up any fingerprints but this plastic
strip here does okay that's glossy it will be easy to scratch we've got our camera module right there
and with the camera module here on the samsung this one has alloy around it now the frame around
the outside of the samsung and the buttons are metal and in hand it actually to me feels
a little better i like the size of it the 6.2 is quite nice to be a slightly smaller phone and the
lighter weight to it as well you do notice slightly there being about 15 grams lighter
now with the Realme here frame around the outside it looks like it's metal but trust me it is not
okay it's plastic all around the outside of this one and then with the ports are looking at the
bottom of both of these phones here type c port on the roma GT is just usb 2 speed sadly which for
flagship that's a little slow but we have usb 3.1 speed so the faster port here with the samsung but
it also has another edge and that is it supports video out out of this port their desktop mode so
we've got the two downwards firing loudspeakers both of these models here have loudspeakers on the
with the earpiece as well and then 3.5 millimeter on the Realme GT this is something i still love
to have in my phones and great to see that it is there now akg tune sound with samsung and then
when we take a look at the top here we do have a secondary microphone and there's an additional two
there with the samsung you can see the antenna lines here obviously with the plastic frame it
doesn't need the gap in the middle for the antenna line that's why the Realme does not have it so the
earpieces they're located in the top just here now there's a tiny little gap with the samsung for the
earpiece and here we've got like the grille too with the Realme so you can just see that there
and then our fingerprint readers so these ones are always on capacitive and both of them both of them
are very very quick so on the Realme it takes you can see like a second and with the samsung
just gonna tap there to wake it up it's about the same it is very very quick there okay so
they both unlock i would have to say really about equal speeds to me to my eyes they are very very
quick both of them with the animations i'll just do that Realme again okay that was a quick tap so
yeah they're excellent now both of them also have face unlocking too from their front facing cameras
now when you look at the bezels on these displays that the chin is clearly smaller here on the S21
now the GT a little bit more of a chin and the left and right bezels you can see that
slightly thicker on the realme GT there too now i do prefer the more symmetrical in the middle here
centered front facing 10 megapixel camera there with the Galaxy S21 and in the corner here this
one's 16 megapixels with the Realme GT now the rear of them looking at their cameras
there will be a camera comparison in this index comparison but we have a main 64 megapixel camera
we've got an 8 megapixel ultra wide and a 2 megapixel macro with the Realme GT here samsung
they step it up a little bit more here we've got a 12 megapixel ultra wide 64 megapixel zoom camera
which is three times and that's mostly actually digital to get that three times and then a main
12 megapixel sensor that one has optical image stabilization uh the cameras on the real meat
none of them have any optical image stabilization they just use electronic with the displays as i
mentioned we have 6.2 inches versus 6.43 so a slight difference it's slightly larger there's
not really that much in it now they're both very bright screens so on the Realme i measure around
about 780 nets on this model here that i have and then about close to almost 900 about 881 nits here
with the Samsung Galaxy S21 so it's a slightly brighter screen so therefore a more superior
screen there so 120 hertz on both of them both have the same resolution of 1080 by 2400 maximum
and they are really good screens so you can't go wrong with either of them here but if you
use your phone a lot in direct sunlight the samsung can boost all the way up to 1300 nits
just to point out too that both of these phones they take dual nano sims 5g support both run
android 11 both have nfc support both of them also have eight gigabytes of ram ufs 3.1 storage
both 128 gigabytes but there's a difference here while they're running android 11 of course we do
have samsung's own one ui 3.1 with this a lot of features on there and animations seem to be very
smooth it's very fluid and then with the Realme GT here we have their Realme ui 2.0 so that banding
you're seeing on camera that's because there's no dc dimming coming through on these displays
a little bit so both of them feel very very quick here now i think the edge would actually go to the
realme GT here in terms of the ui performance it just seems a little quicker to me why is that well
i've discovered that the animations definitely seem to be a lot quicker now this is out of the
box okay i'm not tweaking anything with developer settings i'm not changing animations it just seems
that with the room ui it's a little quicker there and very very quick performance i raw loading apps
and everything so i won't do any of those silly speed tests because we have a difference in chip
sets here of course snapdragon triple eight and then the exynos 2100 with the samsung why do i
not have the same chipset well that's because this one is the european version the only version i can
get locally otherwise i would love to compare snapdragon 8 versus snapdragon 8 of course
when you get both of these phones out of the box you will find quite a bit of pre-installed
bloatware now the samsung had the least amount of bloatware in the beginning but there was a
firmware update that came through and it had it more bloatware as you can see i removed
some things and then some more bloke came through like ticktop and whatnot and we've got facebook
and linkedin and a few other bloatware apps on the Realme as well so for flagships they
shouldn't really have this kind of bloatware present because after all we're playing for
a flagship it shouldn't be putting these well these pre-installed apps on there but it's not
too hard to remove them of course i just want to point that out so big difference in the chipset
performance and i have seen this and done real world tests before in the past that the exynos
to me the 2100 is an inferior chip compared to the snapdragon triple eight not only in benchmarks but
later on in real world use and gaming especially you do actually notice these kind of slight
differences once you've used both of the phones and you swap between them so on the cpu side it's
not too bad but you can see the gap there with the gpu is huge now that's a massive difference
there the gpu scores or when it comes to gaming performance as mentioned you will actually see
that so here the internal storage on both of them ufs 3.1 and they are both very quick the samsung
has a slight advantage there on the sequential speeds and some of the randoms there but i mean
both of them are really really quick here so you can almost say that's about a tie there but
the sequentials writes a little bit faster there on the samsung so it does have the faster
storage there too so wildlife this is a 3d stress test and well as expected the
snapdragon 8 does better here doesn't it slightly higher score here slightly better average frames
rate average frame rate so if you're worried about your gaming performance you're really into
your games you want the best gaming performance and you're not too fussed about say the cameras
then i would definitely go with the GT because of that and you'll see later on when i do the little
gaming test so wireless performance here now something was going on with my router but hey
both phones were connected up to the router and they both didn't do well at all for maximum speeds
however i did find that Realme GT with my router seems to be overheating at the moment with summer
temperatures it still managed to get a faster speed there lower faster speed at the point
downstairs versus this samsung so if wireless performance you must have the absolute top best
download speeds for wireless performance then i think the GT definitely does perform a little
bit better there now gps different head different chipset manufacturers of course here however look
at the difference on the amount of satellites that the qualcomm sees it gets an accuracy of
three meters the x and s gets an accuracy of four but look at the average signal strength
is very important to look at it's actually better on the exynos here now walking around
i found that to me it looked like even though the accuracy doesn't look as good here that the
exynos was doing a slightly better job at times probably because of the average signal strength
although the sheer number of gps satellites that it locks onto is impressive on the GT
on to our audio quality now so we've got 3.5 millimeter jack support here with the GT which
is great to have and then the S21 well you have to use a type-c adapter with that one
now the quality out of it does then sound actually when using the digital to analog with the samsung
sounds better to me however the loudspeaker now the loudspeakers on these were akg tuned
so coming out of the bottom on both of them then out of the earpiece i do actually find the Realme
GT to be slightly louder and to my ears actually a little bit better than the samsung so for the
headphone users out there using type c the samsung gets the win but for the loudspeakers the GT gets
a win and i'll play both of them now the same track at 100 volume and you can hear for yourself
now with gaming performance it is very similar however with the game like pub g there is a
difference with the graphic settings that pubg will allow so this is the samsung at the top
anything but smooth and it will not allow us to have the extreme frame rate option which
is the one we want however with the Realme GT look at this we can use balanced and hd
all with the extreme frame rate option so you can get the higher looking better graphics now we'll
set them both here just to smooth and that will give us the best frame rate there and we'll take
a look at some of the gameplay and what you can expect now when looking at the performance in game
here it feels very very similar but i've noticed that when i scroll around like really really fast
it should come through on camera that it actually does seem to look a lot and feel a lot smoother on
the Realme GT so reflecting what we're also seeing with the synthetic benchmarks coming through with
gaming performance that even on the smooth setting here just looking around that's what the Galaxy
S21 and again with the Realme it just does seem to be a little bit smoother there and you can check
on that frame rate of course bringing up the game center here and you can see that it's a constant
60 frames per second well 59 frames per second and with the samsung i believe it is almost exactly
the same but just sometimes looking around it may lose just a couple of frames there but it is
a flagship phone still both of them have flagship gaming performance just i feel the edge definitely
goes to the realme GT in gaming performance and now our battery life so of course we've got a 500
milliamp hour difference here this has a larger battery the Realme GT 4500 milliamp hours versus
4 000 now both of them were calibrated to 200 nits both at 120 hertz and this is the difference so
almost an hour and a half sorry two hours and a half difference you're looking around about
six to seven hours of on-screen time that is 120 hertz and around then about eight hours maximum on
screen time so the difference is really only about real world use here again of about 45 minutes more
additional time at 120 hertz that is you'll be able to get out of the Realme GT now this
one charges faster of course so it took about 40 minutes it's 39 to 40 minutes to fully charge at
65 watts versus 1 hour and 11 minutes at 25 watts with the Samsung Galaxy S21 which is a lot slower
moving over to our cameras now i do believe that the samsung S21 has the edge here with
better video quality better photo quality as you will see between but for these that i'm comparing
now this is front facing video from the 10 megapixel camera on the samsung we can shoot
up to 4k 60 and with the Realme GT we only have 1080p now both of them do have very
good electronic image stabilization but a clear advantage here with the resolution on the samsung
i'll swap over to the rear cameras now ultra wide now so they both have another difference here
with the resolutions at 1080p maximum with the ultra wide on the Realme GT's camera and again
the samsung can shoot 4k 30 and 4k60 with its ultra wide camera so it has a clear advantage
here with the video performance just capturing more detail so jog ahead slightly we can see now
that electronic image stabilization working main cameras now so 12 megapixels with the optical
image stabilization phase detection autofocus with the samsung and with the Realme GT it is a
64 megapixel sensor that doesn't have any optical image stabilization so it's all electronic now
stability on both of them looks very good but at times i think the GT here with 4k footage now 4k30
does look a little more stable looking there at the castle now you can apply zoom digital
zoom on both of these to zoom a little bit closer so just do a little bit here
so that says 1.5 and 1.6 here 1.5 again on both of them there and just a short little jog ahead
that is when you notice that then the samsung S21 Galaxy
S21 is looking a lot better when you move around a lot it doesn't tend to shake around as bad
all right so keep it simple here with a recap better cameras slightly better build quality
slightly better screen video out ip rating wireless charging that is the reason then to go
for the Galaxy S21 but if you want to have better gaming performance slightly better battery life
i'm not talking a lot only about 35 45 minutes more of on-screen time you'll be able to get out
of the realme GT versus the Galaxy S21 which is not huge but because 120 hertz is a huge taxing
a refresh rate on any kind of phone it burns for it quite quickly but the better battery
life gaming performance and the snapdragon triple eight clearly to me is superior
to the exynos 2100 it is a slightly inferior chip and i just don't really think it is flagship
performance and you see it everywhere it's a fast phone don't get me wrong it's just when you game
and other things like synthetic benchmarks you do notice the differences there that
yeah this one definitely performs a lot better so we have the 65 watt fast charging and that's very
quick so only about 35 to 40 minutes in my testing it's 40 minutes and this one will take about an
hour and 10 minutes so a lot slower samsung's falling behind on their charging rates definitely
they need to pick that up in 2021 and the other thing with this of course the big factor is if
you're on a budget but you want a flagship then clearly this one is so much cheaper you're looking
at around 600 or so euros versus around 380 370 with coupons and things from aliexpress at the
time of this video that is to get the Realme GT so thank you so much for watching this comparison
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