- What's up guys?
David here.
A really cool, new feature on the Galaxy Note 7
is the phone's ability to scale its native
2K resolution all the way down to either 1080P,
like on the OnePlus 3, or even 720P, like on the iPhone 6s.
Now, obviously Samsung's main intention with this feature
is to help improve battery life, as more pixels
leads to more power consumption.
So by lowering the resolution, in theory,
you should be able to save yourself some juice.
Hence why it's under the Power saving mode in the settings.
However, what's interesting is you have the ability
to customize this mode now and you
could actually lower the resolution
while not affecting the CPU performance.
So you leave the CPU unaffected,
but you do lower the resolution,
which begs the question, will the 720P Note 7
perform better than the Note 7 at the regular 2K resolution?
Well, that is exactly what we're gonna
be testing here in this video.
We're gonna be seeing whether or not
the lower resolution actually makes
the difference and if so, how much.
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All right, let's get right into it.
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All right, so on your left you have
the Galaxy Note 7 running at its native
2K resolution, and on your right
is the Note 7 scaled down to 720P.
In the first row of system apps,
there was no separation between the two
with both phones performing almost identically.
So far here in the second row,
the phones look like mirror images of each other
with each phone loading up Subway Surfers
at pretty much the same exact rate.
Somewhat surprising results as you'd expect
there to be at least some differences
when loading up a game, but we will see
what happens here in Angry Birds.
Yeah, again the lower resolution,
at least the way Samsung has implemented it here,
hasn't made any difference yet.
As both phones start working on Smash Hit,
it looks like the 720P Note 7 has actually pulled ahead
and moves on to Photoshop Mix, so there you go.
There's the first app that the lower resolution
has seemed to load faster, but it wasn't by much
as the 2K Note 7 is right behind the 720P Note 7
with both phones struggling here to load up Photoshop Mix.
We'll if the 720P Note 7 could add on to its lead
that it gained from its Smash Hit.
And no, the opposite actually happens,
with the 2K Note 7 finishing first
and moving on to Lapse It.
So very mixed results thus far as both phones start working
on creating a Time Lapse from the same exact video file.
Now, I don't expect either phone
to have different results in this app,
as the display resolution most likely won't have
an impact on processing the Time Lapse's frames.
And yeah, from the looks of it,
both are rendering the file at an identical rate
with the 2K Note 7 remaining only slightly ahead
thanks to it starting a bit earlier.
At this point, I think it's somewhat safe to say
that a lower display resolution, at least the way
Samsung has implemented it here, doesn't make
too much of a difference when it comes to the speed test.
Honestly, I was expecting the biggest difference
to happen in the gaming row, as that's usually
where a higher resolution taxes the GPU,
but as you guys saw, I didn't seem to matter all that much.
Of course we just quickly launched and jumped
into the games, and didn't actually played them,
where a lower resolution would have
likely made a bigger difference.
But either way, when it comes to overall performance,
the lower resolution settings on the Note 7
doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
The 2K Note 7 finishes the first lap
with the time of two minutes and two seconds,
with the 720P Note 7 finishing one second later
with the time of two minutes and three seconds.
So obviously not enough of a difference
with either to call one faster or slower.
It just looks like the Note 7 performs the same
regardless of what you set the resolution to,
but nonetheless, if this is an accurate indication
of how a natively lower resolution phone would perform,
then the idea of a lower resolution
being an advantage is obviously wrong.
But on the other hand, it might just be
that Samsung's implementation is not an accurate indication
as technically those extra pixels are still there,
whereas on a natively lower resolution phone they aren't.
Let me know what you guys think it is
down below in the comments, but with both phones
finishing the second lap within one second
of each other again, that is it for me in this video.
Thank you guys for watching it.
As always, I'll see you in the very next episode.