44 PCWorld APRIL 2020REVIEWS SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 ULTRA
Despite that limitation, however, the 120Hz
screen is one of the best reasons to buy any
S20 phone.SPEED TO SPARE
Galaxy phones have been fast enough since
the Snapdragon 820 processor in the Galaxy
S7, but the Snapdragon 865 in the S20 line is
on another level. Snapdragon 855 Plus-
powered phones had already broken the
10,000 threshold on the PCMark Work 2.0
benchmark, the S20 crushes expectations
with a score of 12,350.
While the speed boost is palpable,
Qualcomm doesn’t deserve all of the
credit. Samsung is using entirely new RAM
modules inside the S20, and every handset
is packed with at least 12GB of LPDDR5
memory. Plus you’re able to keep three
apps open for faster switching, so
launching games with lengthy startup timesCompared to the S10, the Ultra’s camera is a monster.are lightning-quick. To give you an idea of
how it feels to have this much RAM: I
stopped counting the apps on my Recents
screen at 50.
Even the SSD has improved. It’s not just
the 128GB capacity—once again, twice as
much as the Pixel and iPhone—but the
speed: Samsung is using UFS 3.0 storage
on all S20 models. While it’s not quite as
fast as the UFS 3.1 storage that will
probably debut in the Note 20, it’s a huge
jump over what you got with the S10, and
it even bests other UFS 3.0 phones
(though I’m not sure what’s going on with
random write results):S20 (UFS 3.0)
Sequential read: 1,592.46 MBps
Sequential write: 662.75 MBps
Random read: 45,172.27 IOPS
Random write: 33,764.08 IOPS