Android Magazine UK - Issue No. 49

Amidst reports of the Qualcomm Snapdragon

810 overheating, Samsung has dropped the

American brand chip and taken the processor

in-house with their very own Exynos 7420.

Sohowdothetwocompare?Bothmodelsare

octa-corebutthe7420runsatatopspeedof

2.1GHz, leaving the 810 trailing behind at just

1.6GHz.Thisisbecausethe7420isbuiltona

14nm process, while the 810 is created on a

20nm process. In simple terms, the 7420 packs

thesamenumberoftransistorsontoasmaller

processor, which creates a faster and inevitably

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Intermsofbenchmarking,theExynoscomes

outontoponceagain.Thesinglecorescorefor

the7420and810were1520and

respectively,andthemulti-corescoreswere

5478and3604respectively.

If we put the overheating issue aside, it seems

like Samsung have made a good call on

choosing their own processor over the

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810.

Samsung has put a fair bit of work into both of the S6’s cameras. The 16MP

rear-facingcamerahasstayedthesameresolutionbuttheyhavemorethan

doubled the pixel count in the front-facing camera, upping it from 2MP to

5MP. It still has OIS for helping take steadier shots and it now offers face

recognition as well.

Thetworealdevelopments,however,aretheapertureandthelaunch

method. The S6 has changed the aperture from f/2.2 to f/1.9, which means

itwillletintwo-thirdsmorelightthantheS5and,probablymoreimportantly,

theiPhone6.Itisalsomucheasiertogettothecamerathanbefore.The

buttononthelowerbezelnowoperatesasashutterbutton.Adoubleclick

whenthephoneisstilllockedcapturesapictureinanimpressive0.

seconds, while a single click takes you straight to the camera app, which is a

really pleasing development.

Octa-core processing

Camera

Feature
»^ S6: Can it save the Galaxy?

A57 and A

Eight Cortex-A57 and

Cortex-A53 processors

both run at 2.1GHz and

1.5GHz respectively

RAM raid

The Galaxy S6 heralds the

true age of the LPDDR

RAM standard

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