True 6 Samsung S6 edge compared with iPhone 6

IT 168 evaluates Samsung Galaxy S6 edge and Apple iPhone 6. As the two most popular mobile phones with the best experience at present, many users may be confused: Which one should they buy? Among them, Apple has a good reputation on high-end mobile phones, and many innovations in S6 series are also very attractive. So today we will compare two mobile phones that everyone cares about.

First of all, the appearance part, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and Apple iPhone6 are flagship models, so their design is not a nine-stream generation. The two chose a screen about 5 inches suitable for the size of a human hand. The screen is designed in a radian, and the overall grip is quite good. The difference is that the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge heart rate sensor and infrared focus assist sensor are more abundant than Apple.

▲ More abundant sensor equipment

In terms of details, as the flagship product with the same name as iPhone 6, Samsung S6 series.

There is a push-type fingerprint identification Home button at the bottom of the front. Although the width of the Home button is roughly the same as that of the top speaker, in fact, the Home button is slightly wider than the dust screen of the top speaker.

▲ Pressing fingerprint recognition technology

After measurement, the Home button area of Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge is basically the same as that of iPhone6, or even slightly larger. Increasing the Home key area can also improve the success rate of fingerprint identification. However, compared with the iPhone6 made of sapphire glass Home button, the Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge is inferior.

The home button is made of ordinary material, and the whole button is also raised on the front plane. Putting the phone upside down on the desktop will increase the chance of scratching the Home button.

▲ metal PK metal+glass

In addition, it is worth mentioning that although the two are neck and neck in terms of materials, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge dual curved surface screen will definitely beat Apple's 2.5D screen. First of all, the curved screen gives people a high-tech feeling in visual effect, which makes most users shine at the moment. From the actual experience, the side * * * function effect is also very practical, and the side shortcut options, color function tips, etc. all give us an unprecedented experience.

▲ The curved border partially highlights the screen.

At the same time, it should be noted that if you look closely, the four corners of the front of Samsung S6 edge are higher than the glass surface, which greatly reduces the possibility of the glass directly bearing the collision. But the two bumps on the left and right lower sides will definitely make you feel bad when holding it. But when it comes to the usage scenario, this small design becomes an extremely intimate function. The reason for this is that it has to come from a test of foreign media.

At present, foreign media have released the drop tests of Samsung S6 edge and iPhone 6. Due to the slight bulge of the frame and the ingenious design of the center of gravity, the S6 edge, which looks more fragile, actually has obvious advantages in the test. In the test, the iPhone 6 screen that fell face down from 5 meters has been completely scrapped, while the S6 edge has only some slight textures. These are the details, which undoubtedly reflect the exquisite design of Samsung and Asia.

Although the lens highlight has become the slot point from iPhone 6 to Samsung S6 edge, compared with the current photo effect of Samsung S6 edge, it is actually acceptable. On the contrary, it is unwise and beyond reproach to sacrifice the photo quality for the so-called flat lens.

▲ The lens retaining ring is obviously worn.

However, after getting the real machine, it can be clearly seen that the protective ring of Samsung S6 edge lens has been painted. As the fulcrum of the whole back, the metal ring of the fuselage has faded after only a few weeks of use. Although normal use will inevitably lead to wear and tear, it is not an exaggeration to say that the paint is falling off so quickly.

▲ Detailed design list

So to sum up, both of them are flagship models, but this time Samsung S6 edgd has no intention of paying more attention to the design. At the same time, from design to details, Samsung is more meticulous. As a device with a high degree of fit to life, such detail processing is obviously more in line with the needs of daily applications.

If we want to talk about the hardware highlights of Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge, the most prominent one is the Exynos 7420 processor, and the biggest feature of this processor is the 14nm FinFET process, which is undoubtedly the top level in the industry at present. At present, apart from Samsung Exynos 7420, even only Intel uses this technology on the new Core i7 desktop platform. Therefore, before comparing with Apple, it is necessary for us to popularize this chip.

▲ The process technology used by several common flagship chips.

In the past, we learned that most of the chip technologies used in flagship machine came from TSMC, including 28nm high performance (HP), low power consumption (LP), high performance and low power consumption (HPL) and high performance mobile computing (HPM). The representative chips are Qualcomm Snapdragon 80 1(HPM), Kirin 930(HPC) and mediatek MT 6795. This time, Samsung Exynos 7420 adopts the low-nanometer process technology of FinFET technology for the first time, which is 20nm ahead of Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 8 10 chip, winning an era in technology, which is the core highlight of Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge in hardware.

Before that, we might as well know the advantages of 14nm FinFET process. First of all, we know that the smaller the process value of chip technology, the stronger the performance and the lower the power consumption. Why? In fact, the processor is a circuit made of many layers of different materials, including tiny components such as transistors, resistors and capacitors. The distance between these components is usually described as "nanometer". Therefore, 14nm actually shortens the distance between components. On the one hand, more chip components can be laid out, on the other hand, less voltage is needed, so the performance and power consumption will be improved.

▲ Samsung Exynos 7420 chip adopts the basic principle of 14nm FinFet process.

That being the case, why don't flagship machine from other manufacturers adopt better process chips? This is mainly limited by cost and technology. First of all, smaller processes require more expensive equipment costs, and the investment cost of wafers will be higher. Even if we don't care about the cost, it is difficult to achieve a stable situation, because smaller transistors are prone to leakage when they are arranged, and need constant debugging and optimization. So it's not that other manufacturers can't achieve lower nanotechnology, just to pursue the balance between technology and stability. At present, most chips are between 20nm and 28nm to achieve a balance between performance and stability.

Therefore, the main reason why Samsung Exynos 7420 processor is excellent is 14nm FinFET process. In fact, Samsung is actually very advanced in semiconductor manufacturing. At present, Samsung is the only mobile device chip that can formally mass-produce 14nm FinFET process. There are even rumors that Apple's next-generation A9 processor will also adopt Samsung process technology.

In addition, this FinFET technology is not the first time. FinFET (FinFET) refers to fin field effect transistor, which is a new type of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor, named after its shape is similar to that of a fish fin. As early as the beginning of 20 1 1, Intel used FinFET technology on its 22nm chip, which was successfully mass-produced and commercialized. At present, the 22nm processors after Intel Core i7-3770 are all based on FinFET technology. Due to the advantages of low power consumption and small area, besides Intel and Samsung, TSMC, MediaTek and Hisilicon all have plans to launch their own FinFET transistors, but at present, only Samsung has succeeded in mass production.

After understanding the 14nm FinFET process adopted by Samsung Exynos 7420, let's take a look at its specific details. This processor is also a 64-bit eight nuclear platform. It's huge. The small architecture of A57+A53 is adopted, in which the highest frequency of A57 will reach 2. 1GHz, and the highest frequency of A53 will reach 1.5GHz, and the performance is very strong. In addition, Mali-T760 MP8 integrates graphics, and the highest memory bandwidth can reach 25.6GB/s, making it the strongest mobile graphics processor chip so far.

In addition, many media explained that this processor is integrated with baseband, which is actually not correct. After getting in touch with Samsung staff, we learned that Exynos 7420 processor does not actually integrate Samsung's own baseband, but uses the baseband scheme of Qualcomm MDM series alone, which is why Samsung Galaxy S6 edge version of Bank of China has a full netcom version.

In addition to Exynos 7420 chip, Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge actually has two highlights in hardware, namely LPDDR4 memory and UFS2.0 technology.

As for LPDDR4 memory, this will be the flagship new standard this year. Although Xiaomi Note is the first to announce that it will use 4GB LPDDR4 memory, I believe that Xiaomi's "futures" style will not be available in a short time. Therefore, Samsung Galaxy S6 will be the first product equipped with LPDDR4 memory. In terms of performance, the new LPDDR4 will increase the memory by 50% compared with the existing LPDDR3, and provide a bandwidth of 32Gbps (twice that of LPDDR3), which will bring more efficient response and startup speed in practical applications. At the same time, because the working voltage stored in LPDDR4 is reduced to 1. 1V, the power consumption will also be reduced by about 40%.

In addition, LPDDR4 is not unique to Samsung S6. At present, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10, Samsung Exynos 7420 and Intel atom Z3500 all support LPDDR4 memory, and these three processors are positioned in the high-end market. I believe there will be a big wave of products using this memory in the future.

The other is UFS 2.0 technology, which stands for universal flash memory and is a standard chip released by Samsung before S6. It supports the "command queue" technology, which can realize read and write operations at the same time, and the power management during this period is also more efficient. At present, the reading and writing speed of UFS 2.0 is three times faster than that of eMMC 5.0 used in the flagship mobile phone, and the theoretical transmission speed is even as high as 1.2GB/s, which has reached the SSD standard (only tested on 128G version, 32GB/64GB will be slightly slower).

On the whole, the hardware conditions of Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge can even be called horror, which has greatly swept the entire Android camp. Since its theoretical value is so excellent, how does it perform in practice? We also tested this.

First, we use Ann Bunny to test the extreme performance of the hardware. From the running point of view, the total score of Ann Bunny test of Samsung Galaxy S6 is as high as 68,879, approaching 70,000. This achievement can be said to be a new height in the Android smartphone camp, which has far surpassed the flagship mobile phone of the same level. Although Ann Bunny's running test is the ultimate ability of hardware, we can really see the superiority of Exynos7420 chip. And what is the performance of this chip for Apple A8 under iOS 8 platform? We continue to look down.

First, let's take a look. These three chips are all 64-bit architectures based on ARMv8-A, among which Samsung Exynos 7420 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10 are basically the same, and they are both relatively large. The small architecture of A57+A53 has basically the same processor frequency. However, the highest frequency of Samsung Galaxy S6 in A57 is 2. 1GHz, while HTC One M9 is 2.0GHz and A53 is 1.5GHz. As for Apple A8 processor, it is a unique dual-core 1.4GHz processor structure.

Comparison of Basic Data of Three Flagship Chips

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Samsung Exynos 7420

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10

Apple A8

Processing technology

14 nanometer fin field effect transistor

20 nm HPM

20 nm HKMG

structure

Arm V8-64 bit architecture

structure

Quad core A57+ Quad core A53

Quad core A57+ Quad core A53

Double pivot

frequency

4x2. 1GHz+4x 1.5GHz

4x2.0GHz+4x 1.5GHz

2x 1.4GHz

Graphic coprocessor

Mali -T760 MP8

Adrenaline 430

PowerVR GX6450

Graphic frequency

772 MHz

650 MHz

450 MHz

internal storage

type

Dual channel LPDDR4 1600MHz

Dual channel LPDDR4 1600MHz

Single channel LPDDR3 1600MHz

memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/ s

25.6 GB/ s

12.8 GB/ s

floating-point calculation

209.44 trillion floating-point operations

324 trillion floating-point operations

1 15.2 GFlops

OpenGL ES 3.0

support

support

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In addition, in terms of graphics card and memory, Samsung GALAXY S6 uses the highest-end Mali-T760MP8, and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10 also uses Adreno430, all of which are dual-channel LPDDR4 memory, achieving a mainstream bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s. Apple is a powerful GX6450 in terms of graphics card, but the memory is single-channel with a bandwidth of only/kloc-0.

After theoretical numerical analysis, we compare the differences among them through practical tests. The products used are Samsung Galaxy S6(Exynos 7420), HTC One M9 (Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10) and iPhone 6 (Apple A8). Because the test environment and individuals are different, the following data are for reference only.

Let's take a look at the performance of the three on the cross-platform running software GeekBench3. 1 Samsung Galaxy S6 single core 1447 points, multi-core 4768 points, using Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10 HTC One M9 single core 1300 points, multi-core 3698 points (Qualcomm chip frequency is greatly reduced, take the initial score), while iPhone 6. So we can also see the general arrangement of the three. Exynos 7420 chip is indeed better than Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10, and compared with Apple A8 processor, Samsung S6 is the strongest in the Android camp. Although the single-core performance is not as good as that of iPhone 6, it can easily win under multi-core operation.

In addition, in terms of graphics, I have to say that this is still Qualcomm's strong point. In the 3DMark test, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10 leads Samsung Exynos 7420 by 23,906 points and 22 155 points, and the difference between them is not too big. However, in GFXBench3. 1, the performance of Samsung S6 is better than that of HTC One M9, so overall, the graphics performance of the two should be comparable. As for Apple A8 processor, it has been left behind by both. In addition, considering the theoretical strength of Mali-T760MP8, I believe there will be further improvement in the later period.

I believe everyone here can understand why Samsung Galaxy S6 will completely use Exynos 7420 chip this year and give up the version of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10. Compared with Exynos 7420, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10 has almost no advantage, and even the graphics part that Qualcomm is best at is tied by Samsung. Combined with Exynos 7420' s 14nm FinFET process, the power consumption will be better than 20nm of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10. As for the baseband part, Qualcomm's only advantage was also granted to Samsung S6, so the "tragedy" naturally happened.

From our analysis, it is not difficult to see that Samsung Exynos 7420 is indeed a perverted chip, and 14nm FinFET technology is the best, while LPDDR4 memory and UFS2.0 technology are more obvious. Undoubtedly, this will be the most powerful mobile processor chip in the first half of the year, surpassing Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10 and Apple A8 processors. Of course, it also has some regrets. The core baseband is still from Qualcomm, and Samsung will not authorize the chip to be used by other manufacturers.

So if you plan to buy Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge, the performance is definitely worth it. But judging from the whole smart phone industry, or for users, Qualcomm has not lost the most important competitiveness, and network communication support and solution integration still belong to him. If you need to support Netcom and want to own a high-end flagship mobile phone with good quality and low price, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 10 is still the only choice in the industry.

I believe many users will think that intelligence.

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The best way to take pictures should be from 2.

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The company's iPhone series products, but in recent years,

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There are more and more platforms with strong performance in cameras.

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Even some products have surpassed the iPhone series. Similarly, we might as well give a conclusion first:

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Galaxy S6 series is basically better than iPhone 6 in taking photos! In the experience, I once had the impulse to abandon iPhone 6 and switch to S6 edge, so

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What is the camera performance of Galaxy S6? Let's watch it together

First of all, Samsung Galaxy S6 edge and Samsung Galaxy S6 use the same lens.

Therefore, friends who are entangled in which product to buy because of the camera can rest assured to buy what they like. Samsung Galaxy S6 dual series uses the first 5 megapixels+rear16 megapixels.

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Combination, and before and after using f/ 1.9 super aperture, in addition, the rear lens supports 4K(3840x2 160, 30 frames per second) video recording.

The convex lens is definitely something that most users are dissatisfied with. Is it like an apple?

Can't a mobile phone faucet like Samsung flatten the lens of a mobile phone? The answer is definitely yes. As for why they insist on protruding, there are naturally their reasons.

For a camera phone, the two most important elements are photo quality and focusing speed. If the focus speed of the mobile phone is too slow, it is likely that many wonderful moments will be missed, or the shooting will be empty at all. Of course, on the basis of satisfying the fast focusing speed, there must be good photo quality. In recent years, smartphones have become thinner and thinner. In order to cater to the aesthetic trend of mass users, Samsung had to sacrifice the flatness of the back of the fuselage. Its convex lens is more for the camera to ensure the focusing speed.

So can the convex lens really take photos of duang~duang drops? After several days of careful experience, we found that the focusing speed of Samsung Galaxy S6 edge is indeed faster than that of some mobile phones with inconspicuous cameras. This is mainly because Samsung Galaxy S6 edge ensures the thickness of the camera lens and the thickness of the focusing cavity motor. On the basis of the same CMOS, the thickness of the lens depends on the photographic quality, and the thickness of the focusing cavity motor depends on the focusing speed. Simply put, the convex lens of Samsung Galaxy S6 edge can meet the requirements of fast focusing and high image quality, so who do you choose, fish or bear's paw?

In addition, the volume of the rear lens is much larger than that of the previous generation, which is mainly due to the addition of optical image stabilization. Optical anti-shake mainly adds four electrified magnets to the four corners of the lens. When the lens moves in a certain direction, the induction gyro will be corrected by the magnet motor, which is also beneficial to the excellent night scene proofs of Samsung Galaxy S6 edge.

I talked a lot about the lens structure, so let's take it easy. Starting from the Samsung Galaxy S5, an infrared sensor has been added to the back of the fuselage, which can detect the body pulse and take a selfie. According to the experience of the past year, most users seldom use infrared sensors to detect their body pulse. On the contrary, the experience of touching your fingers on your back and taking selfies is quite good. However, yesterday, a colleague on the channel got the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge and encountered the problem of unsuccessful selfie. In fact, its logic is to switch the front camera-finger touch-face recognition-finger release-and take pictures successfully. As long as we follow this logic, we can take selfies easily, and the success rate is almost 100%.

With the Samsung Galaxy S6 series products changing fingerprint recognition to push type, the Home button will be used more frequently. During the experience, we also found two interesting small functions. First, double-click the Home button to quickly bring up the photo mode, and gently wave your thumb up and touch the shutter button to complete the photo. Secondly, click the volume button to add a single photo, and long press the volume button to reduce 30 fast continuous shooting. Although these small functions can't improve the image quality of a camera phone, they can meet the camera experience of a large-screen mobile phone. Samsung should also praise it carefully here.

This time, Samsung Galaxy S6 edge also added many interesting functions to the camera interface. These include fast motion, slow motion and virtual shooting. We are familiar with fast motion and slow motion, and we have experienced it on Apple iPhone6 before. Virtual action is a relatively new function. From the video above, we can see that Samsung's so-called virtual shooting is actually a small video function, which can realize the 3D rotation effect of the object after successful shooting. However, from the actual experience, the virtual shooting function is generally effective. On the one hand, virtual focus is easy to appear when shooting, and on the other hand, the whole shooting process is very prone to unstable pictures. You need to practice more if you want to play virtual shooting well.

Earlier, we talked about Apple iPhone6 matching Samsung Galaxy S6 edge, and even surpassed it to some extent, so in the proof part, we compared Samsung Galaxy S6 edge with Apple iPhone6 and Apple iPhone6 Plus. First of all, from the perspective proofs during the day, we can see that both of them have reached the leading level of mobile phone photography, but when the proofs are enlarged to 100%, we can clearly see that the word "Sinosteel" of Samsung Galaxy S6 edge is clearer in the shadow. The main reason why the details in the foreground are clearer is that Samsung Galaxy S6 edge uses16 megapixel lens, while Apple iPhone6 uses 8 megapixels. High pixels will definitely bring more detailed proofs.

In the night scene sample part, we chose Apple iPhone6 Plus, mainly because both of them have added optical anti-shake function. However, in the night scene comparison sample, Samsung Galaxy S6 edge can be said to be a complete victory over Apple iPhone6 Plus. The first is the brightness of the sample. In order to reduce the noise of the picture, Apple iPhone6 Plus deliberately lowered the brightness of the whole picture. Secondly, Samsung's high pixels also have certain advantages in the details of the picture.

Just now we talked about Samsung Galaxy S6 edge. In order to ensure the thickness of the focusing cavity motor, the camera is convex. In the sample above, we can see the folds formed by the metal bottle cap tied with iron wire, which are clearly visible on the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge, while the Apple iPhone6 is slightly smeared. Therefore, in the indoor macro proof experience, we can clearly see that the macro proof focuses quickly and the details are quite powerful.

In the indoor night scene proofs, we can also see that there is a clear gap between Samsung Galaxy S6 edge and Apple iPhone6. In the 100% screenshot of the vase ornaments, Samsung Galaxy S6 edge can clearly see the bottom outline of the vase, while Apple iPhone6 can hardly identify where its outline is due to overexposure. In the screenshots of the face and mouth, we can also see that the Apple iPhone6 has also been severely smeared, and there is also an inaccurate white balance, while the performance of Samsung Galaxy S6 edge is at a passing level.

We have to admit that the benchmark Apple iPhone6 lost in this comparison. Although Apple iPhone6 is not as good as Samsung Galaxy S6 edge in the above details, few users compare photos in detail after enlarging 100%, so we can be sure that both Apple iPhone6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge are the best in taking photos on mobile phones. We also found a small detail in the ordinary proofs during the day. Samsung Galaxy S6 edge will deliberately make the proofs brighter, which will be more pleasing to the eye, but there will be a little error with the objects seen by the naked eye.

In addition, the success of Samsung Galaxy S6 is partly due to the addition of intimate small functions, such as double-clicking the Home button to take a quick photo, lowering the volume for continuous shooting, self-timer experience of infrared sensor and video function of fast and slow motion, which add a lot of fun to Samsung Galaxy S6 series products in taking photos, which is one of the reasons why I intend to discard Apple iPhone6.

So if you value the camera function, I believe Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge will surprise you. At least in the current flagship comparison, its camera performance is among the best, and it is really worthwhile to pay for its camera. Next, let's put some appreciation samples.

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So to sum up,