Iphone 7 vs Samsung Galaxy S7

Iphone 7 vs Samsung Galaxy S7

 
 

It can be a little tricky comparing Apple devices with other phones, largely because of the fact that Apple doesn’t use the same Qualcomm processors that most other major phone makers use, and it’s harder to compare like-for-like apps running on two different operating systems.

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 most commonly has a Snapdragon 820 processor inside, but there are some versions with Samsung’s own Exynos 8890 octa-core chip, which are mostly sold outside the U.S. The quad-core Snapdragon 820 has twice the performance of the Snapdragon 810, and 40x the graphical ability, plus Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 technology inside for fast battery charging. The A10 Fusion is Apple’s in-house designed chip choice for the iPhone 7. It’s the first quad-core processor from the company, and 40 percent faster than the old A9 inside the iPhone 6S.

Clever technology sees both chips handle workloads in the most efficient manner, by only utilizing certain cores for particular tasks, minimizing power consumption. The Galaxy S7 has twice the RAM of the iPhone at 4GB, but Apple has never stuffed its devices full of RAM, and it hasn’t posed a massive problem for regular users. On paper, the Galaxy S7 beats the iPhone, but in real life, iOS and Android work very differently, and the RAM benefits simply aren’t obvious.