David here and today we have a very special speed test

that involves a little bit of sibling rivalry

between the Snapdragon and Exynos variants

of the Galaxy S7.

But before we get to racing,

I want to give a quick shout out to Norton,

the go-to source for internet security software

who recently released part two of their documentary series,

The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet.

This latest episode covers what are called cyber bunkers,

where organizations can safely

host and store their sensitive data.

Like many documentaries of this type,

there are plenty of heated moments.

For example, when the journalist gets cussed out

by a company that doesn't want to be videotaped.

It's actually a pretty intense documentary

so if you're interested in cyber security,

you own a phone or you use the internet,

this may be a documentary worth checking out,

which will be linked for you down below in the description.

Alright, let's get to the speed test.

So you guys know the drill.

We'll get this thing going by starting

the stopwatches on each phone and then jumping to the

first row of system apps.

On your left, you have the quad core Snapdragon 820 S7

and on your right, you have the octa core Exynos 8890 S7,

which has quickly pulled ahead in this first lap

with it already finishing up with Angry Birds

and starting to work on Asphalt 8.

But we're not even half way through this first lap

so there is still plenty of time

for both variants to show off what they can do.

And really, it's this first lap that I'm

most interested in seeing as a phone's processor

can make a significant difference during the

initial loading of an application.

So we're really getting to see which processor

is faster with this type of usage

and so far, it looks like the Exynos is edging out

the Snapdragon with it being almost a full app ahead.

We're finishing up Photoshop Mix

and heading into Lapse It,

where each phone will create a time lapse

from the same exact video file.

So this could be where the Snapdragon 820

makes up some ground on the Exynos.

Now at this point, it is worth noting

that while the phones are almost identical

outside of their processors from a hardware perspective,

there are also some differences in software

as the Snapdragon variant being tested here is from AT&T,

which has the bad habit

of putting bloatware on their phones.

However, we did disable all the AT&T apps

we were able to beforehand

so in theory the software shouldn't make

too much of a difference.

After finishing up Spotify,

the Exynos variant of the S7 moves on to the

last leg of this first lap,

loading up both the mobile and the desktop

versions of the Amazon website.

And there you go, it finishes the first lap

with a time of one minute and 27 seconds,

which is almost a good 10 seconds faster

than the Snapdragon variant's time

of one minute and 36 seconds.

And the Exynos version looks to keep its lead

with it actually keeping at least most of these games

open up in the background,

which the Snapdragon variant does not.

So an unexpected turn of events

with the Exynos version just breezing through

this second lap while the Snapdragon variant

is having the same old issues we've seen

other Samsung phones have in the past,

struggling to keep all the apps open in the background,

despite having the same amount of visible RAM.

So the Exynos variant finishes the race with

a total time of two minutes and three seconds,

while the Snapdragon variant is still stuck

on the gaming row so we'll go ahead and fast forward it

to the finish line where nearly 40 seconds later

it logs a total time of two minutes and 41 seconds.

Okay, so very interesting results.

The Exynos variant did better

than the Snapdragon variant in that first lap,

which is kinda something I expected.

But what surprised me was that the Exynos variant

also did better in the multitasking lap,

which I didn't expect since both phones

have the same amount of RAM

and supposedly run on the same software.

But either way, the Exynos variant

is definitely the faster of the two

so it'll be interesting to see how it does

against the iPhone 6S Plus and other phones down the line.

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Alright guys, that is it for me in this video.

Thank you for watching and, as always,

I'll see you in the very next episode.