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Galaxy S7 fails to impress in NAND read/write speeds; iPhone 6s still twice as fast or even faster
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iOS on iPhone is like MS-DOS in that it can't take advantage of multi-cores since it's limited to one foreground task and no background tasks. So, it's better to equip it with a faster single or fewer cores. Android, on the other hand, is like Windows 10 in comparison and benefits from multi-cores.
Here's Android running a game, Twitch.tv and a movie in the foreground with other background tasks.
As for storage, random performance is more important for real world performance and not like it matters on iOS anyway since you can't do things like connect it to a computer for use as direct storage.
Individual apps can take advantage of multiple cores, I don't think you know how it works.
Don't worry. It's just more apple bashing from him ... Every single post ....
He doesn't care or have interest in knowing. It's just another chance to spread more FUD and derail ... Himself and John McGreggor are like two opposing pennies from the same fountain in this sub fora.
iOS on iPhone is like MS-DOS in that it can't take advantage of multi-cores since it's limited to one foreground task and no background tasks. So, it's better to equip it with a faster single or fewer cores. Android, on the other hand, is like Windows 10 in comparison and benefits from multi-cores.
Here's Android running a game, Twitch.tv and a movie in the foreground with other background tasks.
As for storage, random performance is more important for real world performance and not like it matters on iOS anyway since you can't do things like connect it to a computer for use as direct storage.
And yet the experience sucks on Android because it's so inefficient with what it does in the background.
Keep in mind that these are smartphones we're talking about. Clearly battery life, reliability, and performance in real world use are what's most important.
Sure, functionality is nice, but I don't need to be playing a game, watching a Twitch stream, and playing a movie simultaneously.
In my opinion, it's best to have a less amount of functionality and a fast and optimized experience on smartphones. On PCs, it doesn't matter as functionality is what's most important.
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What are you referring to? I added the source since I posted this.
Also, it's from Anandtech and not XDA.
Take a chill pill and learn to read.
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I assume he was attempting to have a dig at me. It was my thread in the s6 edge and another posters in the standard galaxy s6 sub fora's on XDA that were the source of the many aggressive ram articles last year. Clearly he doesn't believe I am the author.
Heres the phonearena news article at time. Check three sources at bottom, and first 2 are the s6 thread and source 3 is my edge thread, and you'll notice i was first to label it aggressive ram ....
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Galaxy-S6-exhibiting-overzealous-RAM-management-report-users_id68745
And here i am signed into my account proving its mine.
All of which is by the by as thankfully this year I'm not having the same issue on my s7 edge. Which so far has been nothing but a pleasure to use (especially after the scaling dpi trick).
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I've been on XDA a bit longer so I've seen the behavior where some learn something from a discussion then create a thread to try to claim credit. In the case of DRAM and garbage collection as it relates to app and browser reloads it's been raised years before and how you were educated to the issue to begin with. Just because you created a subsequent new thread or that it was eventually fixed had nothing to do with you. You can keep patting yourself on the back though but no need to bark which I've noticed you have a habit of doing to others.
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Maybe you should stay over on XDA where your constant attempt to belittle Apple in every post will be seen as clever. Here people have seen right through you and this form of troll style posts that you constantly pursue - simply hidden beneath a veil act of subterfuge. There is something quite array that a poster who clearly has such an irrational hatred of Apple products as your posts constantly demonstrate would spend so much time on an Apple related forum.
I will have no more repose with you ... I will be however raising the issue of your post style and content with the moderating team.
Good video. It is interesting that the S7 Edge had better mic recording (clearer and louder) than the S7 or the iPhone. Makes me wonder if the S7 and S7 Edge either have different mics, or there are more mics on the S7 Edge or just better placement on the Edge? Weird to see differences like this between two phones that are listed as identical internally.
I don't know man, even on xda people usually have a solid understanding of how ios works
Obviously the guy loves androids background multitasking. Why he cannot acknowledge that apples approach is shooting for more consistent battery life / standby time is beyond me! It's not like there is no benefit that comes with apples choice
Nice try but I've owned Apple since unenhanced IIe, IIgs, Mac SE, etc. so much longer than you were born. If you don't want to learn the differences between the two OS' and how they affect things like battery life then feel free to sit in the corner and listen. You might learn something that you can then create a new thread on XDA.
Those are all not ios products.
Are you telling me apples approach WRT multitasking is not more battery efficient than androids? I like android very much but I am not blind mate.
Who cares? This is really grasping for straws. Day to day who really sees this? I haven't seen any lag in data reading or writing so far.
Because faster flash really does make a difference when reading from and writing to flash.
It's minimal but it's there (mainly when opening, installing apps, etc.)
If write is so important then why leave it out? Storage becomes fragmented over time so random write is more important in the real world for things such as 4K video recording to allow higher bitrate quality. Maybe iPhone 6S and 6S Plus would benefit from stereo recording instead of mono with higher random write performance (see YouTube video for comparison).
Where is the regular 6s in the list. I only see the 6s plus?By far one of the most significant improvements to the iPhone 6s was Apple's decision to use the NVMe controller from the Macbooks onto the iPhone to accelerate the flash performance, and I was expecting the Galaxy S7 to catch up (or surpass) the iPhone 6s in this aspect, especially because the Galaxy S6 had the fastest flash when it was released.
Unfortunately, Samsung disappointed me with very minor improvements to the flash performance of the Galaxy S7.
And results are even more shocking with write speeds:
It is important to mention that the faster flash and the controller of the iPhone 6s are what cause the more significant speed improvements, in collaboration with the ridiculously fast A9 CPU and faster RAM. So, theoretically, the iPhone 6s should still be faster when loading things from flash (such as applications).
What do you guys think? Is this important to you? Let me know.
SOURCE: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10120/the-samsung-galaxy-s7-review/3
WTF is this? How the hell did they even get these results? The Nexus 6P results are ridiculous. Just ran a test on my 6P and the read speed is 2.5x faster than the results up there and the write speed is almost 7x as fast. These are the crappiest test results I’ve ever seen.
