Samsung Note 7 (Snapdragon) has terrible performance.

[Doobeedoo]

Yeah most of these kind of videos tend to be biased, like mostly being SD and not Exynos which they optimize more. Also misleading titles everything or not enough info etc. Cause it's not true those phones lag, tried them all myself.

[LAwLz]

The hate on Samsung in this thread is pretty hilarious.

 

 

Here are some facts, based on DiscoMark (the benchmark XDA used).

 

1) Yes, the Note 7 (at least the Snapdragon version) is, for some reason, slower than it should be. It seems to be about 12% slower than the HTC 10 (based on performance gathered from Settings, Maps, Google Play, Gmail, Gallery, Chrome and the camera app. Chose to ignore Dropbox since something seems off with that test) which has the same SoC.

I wouldn't call that "terrible slow" though. It's like 0.1 seconds slower at starting an app on average. But even if it's not "terrible slow", something seems to be off and Samsung should try and fix it.

 

2) The Exynos version will probably be a lot faster. In fact, the HTC 10 is 26% slower than the Exynos version of the Galaxy S7, but the Snapdragon version is tied with it.

If a 12% difference makes something "terribly slow", is the HTC 10 "slow to the point of being unusable" compared to the Exynos version of the Galaxy S7?

 

3) This article specifically talks about the Snapdragon version of the Note 7. How some people use this to come to the conclusion that all Samsung phones are slow is pretty mind blowing. Especially when he have evidence that shows other Samsung phones being tied or faster in the same test.

 

4) The OnePlus' performance seems to be all over the place while the Note 7 is very consistent. Not sure if this has been fixed in updates, but you should keep in mind that extremes are just as important for factor in as the averages.

[TidaLWaveZ]

Lol, the noticeable performance of the Note 7 is just embarrassing.  I'd hardly call a difference of tenths of a second embarrassing.  While the numbers may show that the Note 7 isn't the speediest device, the rhetoric used in this article shows that there's clearly an alternate agenda.

[goodtofufriday]

Plenty of other reasons not to buy samsung though. Terrible settings ui, custom settings messing with outlook exchange, cheapy plastic housing, burn in on all generations of their lcds. 

The note 4 seems to be the exception to the hardware issues i have with samsung, but the rest hold true. 

I deal with these devices daily for my company and ive mostly phased out samsung phones all together. 

[suicidalfranco]

if only they made another note with removable battery, i'd buy it in an heartbeat! really missing s-pen  

[GoodBytes]

Moved to "Phones and Tablets" forum section because this posting does not meet the Tech News guidelines:

 

[xDanielxOossiex]

No lags here on my Exynos S7 edge. Only sometimes some little android bugs, but nothing major.

[EternalSeeker]

Im more then a general user, i am a power user with myriad of apps, I can multitask like a king on my Canadian Note 7. Guess what? Its a Snapdragon 820! Though XDA said that it only plagues some note 7's. I can't tell you why certain people get slow downs. All i know is for my version it doesnt and is faster than my coworkers s7 edge which has the exynos soc. Don't take all test as gospel.