Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and LG G5 compete favorably in terms of speed. (Photo : YouTube/Android Authority)
While they were launched in a difference of less than one month, LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge compete favorably. As a result, the Internet has been aligning the two standard flagships against each other.
The latest comparison come from XeeTechCare, which pit LG G5 and Galaxy S7 Edge in terms of speed test focusing on booting, browsing, app loading, multitasking, and fingerprint sensing challenges. Before embarking on the speed test, it is important to review their specs and features.
Both Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and LG G5 pack quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipsets, although a variant of the Galaxy S7 Edge packs a Samsung Exynos 8890 CPU instead. Furthermore, versions of the two smartphones ships with Andreno 530 GPUs.
On the other hand, the two flagship phones from Korean tech companies, Samsung and LG, have 4 GB of RAM beside 32 GB storage capacity. Galaxy S7 Edge has a somewhat larger display of 5.5 inches as compared to the LG G5's 5.3-inch display. However, both handsets have a screen resolution of 1440 by 2560.
When it comes to speed test, Galaxy S7 Edge beat the LG G5 in terms of fingerprint sensing and boot up, although G5 was better in each of the five legs in Browsing portion of trial, according to Android Community. LG G5 was faster when using Google Chrome, visiting websites, following links, and opening news stories.
When it came to app loading, the challenge was split. In fact, both S7 Edge and G5 tied on the Instagram and Facebook parts of the challenge.
LG G5 was faster in loading the Google Play Store, YouTube app, and "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" as compared to S7 Edge. However, it was notable that the Galaxy S7 Edge was faster to search YouTube, quicker on the draw with video playback, started Subway Surfer sooner, and loaded "Temple Run" faster than LG G5. In general, XeeTechCare was impressed with both smartphones.
The Galaxy S7 Edge is better in terms of benchmarks, especially because of having a better multi-core score, according to Android Authority. However, XeeTechCare did not find any noticeable difference between the two phones. Watch the clip below for further details.
