T3 - UK (2021-03)

70 T3 MARCH 2021

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hole that sits top-centre, is an
uninterrupted slab of visual goodness
that displays anything brilliantly.
From lusciously smooth scrolling
through Twitter to immersive
eye-popping colours in the latest HDR
movies, it really is a pleasure to use.
In terms of design, the big change
this year is that the rear camera now
has a housing that blends into the
framing on the left and top edge. This
goes a little way to hide how much
the camera protrudes, but it’s still a
design that needs to be put in a case.
That level of top-end quality is
carried through to the core hardware,

too, with the very latest Qualcomm

system-on-a-chip, the Snapdragon

888, sat at its heart. This, in

partnership with 12GB of RAM and an

Adreno 660 GPU, means the S21 Ultra

turns in some very impressive

benchmark scores.

While last year’s S20 Ultra

delivered a single-core Geekbench 5

score of 939, and a multi-core score

of 2,815, the Galaxy S21 Ultra posted

1,109 and 3,674 respectively, which

is a marked improvement. And this

performance is also reflected in

3DMark’s graphical benchmarks. Last

year the S20 Ultra managed to post a

score of 6,765 in Sling Shot Extreme

(OpenGL ES 3.1), while this year the

S21 Ultra managed to best that with a

score of 7,769.

It also delivered really well in

3DMark’s new graphical test Wild

Life, outputting a score of 5,678 and

an average frame rate of 34.10. As you

would expect, this means that any

mobile game you care to throw at the

S21 Ultra runs flawlessly – this is a

phone that delivers.

That powerful hardware works in

sync with Android 11 and Samsung’s

own One UI 3.1, which remains the

best Android skin on the market.

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SCREEN BLESSED

With a huge 6.8-inch

AMOLED panel, an

120Hz refresh rate

and a WQHD+ 3200

x 1440 resolution, this

phone packs a truly

breathtaking display.

CRAMMED FULL OF CAMS

Offering more lenses than an

optician, the S21 Ultra has an

ultra-wide 12MP, a wide 108MP,

and two 10MP telephoto

cameras, up to 100x zoom and

can film in 8K.