iPhone 12 Pro Beats Samsung Note 20 Ultra in App Loading Speed Test

[MacRumors]

Apple's iPhone 12 Pro has successfully outperformed the Samsung Note 20 Ultra in a real world app speed test conducted by PhoneBuff, with the A14 chip and 6GB RAM winning out over the Snapdragon 856 chip and 12GB RAM in Samsung's smartphone.

The performance test measured how long it took each phone to open a series of apps. Each smartphone opened the same series of apps, including Facebook, the camera app, Microsoft apps, Adobe Rush, games, and more.

The iPhone 12 Pro pulled well ahead in the portion of the test that included rendering video in Adobe Rush, and kept up the lead through launching several games. Apple's iPhone 12 Pro finished the first "lap" of opening apps up in a minute and 41 seconds, while it took the Note 20 Ultra one minute and 55 seconds to complete the same tasks.

During the second lap, which measures how well the smartphones are able to keep apps running in the background, the iPhone finished in 42 seconds, while the Note 20 Ultra took 46 seconds.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra was the prior winner of app speed tests conducted by Phone Buff, but the iPhone 12 Pro is the new champion and the best performing smartphone available on the market today when it comes to that particular app speed test. According to PhoneBuff, it has been 20 months since an iPhone last held the top spot.

Article Link: iPhone 12 Pro Beats Samsung Note 20 Ultra in App Loading Speed Test

 

[tzm41]

The difference is minimum though...

 

[UltimateSyn]

How could that be possible! Samsung Note 20 Ultra has TWELVE JIGGABYTES of RAM!

 

[7thson]

These tests are impressive in their findings but it’s safe to say that nobody uses their devices like this. It’s all about software optimized to hardware, which iOS will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future. So props to Apple but keep innovating.

 

[Ds6778]

Man. One UI is so ugly.

 

[Chrjy]

I love my 12 Pro but what has the world come to when we need to save a few seconds when opening apps. People need to experience the world a little more and just enjoy life.

 

[foobarbaz]

Wow, that's a lot of apps to keep in memory. I don't know why people complain about iPhone RAM. This really seems plenty.

 

[b11051973]

I had to read the title a couple times. The "Beats" in the title made me think this was about headphones. It was actually the verb beats. I'm probably the only person that had this issue though.

 

[UBS28]

Let's do this test again when the new Samsung phone is released with a new snapdragon chip.

 

[Cubsfan]

I love my 12 Pro but what has the world come to when we need to save a few seconds when opening apps. People need to experience the world a little more and just enjoy life.

I agree with this, but "enjoy life" != "waiting for my phone". The quicker my devices do what I want them to do, the more I can actually enjoy life.

 

[Chinch07]

The difference is minimum though...

I disagree. The iPhone finished nearly 20 seconds faster and it only has half the RAM that the Samsung has available.

 

[GeoStructural]

Man. One UI is so ugly.

Totally agree. As powerful as Android is I think iOS has better aesthetics overall.

 

[Cosmosent]

That's NOT much of a Test !

How about the Time it Takes to Capture & Write (to NAND Flash Storage) an Image Sequence of Full-Res 12 Mpx photos !

 

[RFolk]

Oh well, I really don't see much benefit out of this. I am more interested into camera performance between the two. .

 

[goobot]

I think we’ve hit the point for a while now that performance is more than enough that our phones can handle the software they run for quite a while

 

[Chrjy]

I agree with this, but "enjoy life" != "waiting for my phone". The quicker my devices do what I want them to do, the more I can actually enjoy life.

Alternatively, you could always spend a little less time on your phone or have a chat with someone whilst waiting for that extra 2 seconds of load time.

 

[Ds6778]

Totally agree. As powerful as Android is I think iOS has better aesthetics overall.

I’m setting aside the atrocious icon design...

I would go nuts as the end user being blasted with googles material design and Samsung’s One UI depending on which app you opened lol You want G-Mail, Outlook, or Samsung mail?

 

[iBluetooth]

How could that be possible! Samsung Note 20 Ultra has TWELVE JIGGABYTES of RAM!

12 Gigabytes on a 'GB' garbage collected code (JVM) is equal to 6 Gigabytes on iOS, reference counted code. (Note: this is an approximate rule of thumbs and not so simple in reality)

 

[now i see it]

I'm going to switch from Android to iOS so I can launch an app 0.1 seconds faster

 

[iBluetooth]

These app opening tests are a total crap, as they are testing totally different code paths and system libraries. Beside the wifi connection can also have a large effect.

 

[mtneer]

Is this even meaningful in the real world unless you happen to have one of each phone at the same time?

 

[DinkThifferent]

I am glad Apple is giving the iPhone more RAM. Although my iPhone 8 Plus is okay but not great, I still have a little RAM anxiety when switching apps on my 6th gen iPad because the iPadOS13 drama is still a fresh memory (This webpage had to reload because a problem occurred).

 

[The Cappy]

That's NOT much of a Test !

How about the Time it Takes to Capture & Write (to NAND Flash Storage) an Image Sequence of Full-Res 12 Mpx photos !

That's a very specific test you have in mind. Which phone is that going to favor, out of curiosity?

 

[jz0309]

wow, iOS vs Android ... and, does a user in the "real world" really open all thee apps in sequence? don't think so ... it would be much more beneficial to have a real world comparison of what was suggested already, eg the camera app, taking shots and how long does it take to save etc ... this comparison shows us something but it is not "real world"

 

[alpi123]

Wow, that's a lot of apps to keep in memory. I don't know why people complain about iPhone RAM. This really seems plenty.

They were complaining until now. 4 GB wasn't that enough last year.