14 DAY TRIAL // If you decided to spend 1,000 dollars on a new smartphone, you should choose carefully because newly released models aren't always the most powerful or fastest ones.
Samsung unveiled today what it would appear to be their fastest and most powerful smartphone to date, the Galaxy Note 9, which features a gorgeous and bright 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, an Adreno 630 GPU, and up to 8GB RAM.
Every time new flagship devices are unveiled, the first thing mobile customers want to know is how they stack up to other smartphones in the same category, and in this case, it's Apple's iPhone X because it features a big Super AMOLED display and also costs 1,000 dollars in the United States.
iPhone X vs Galaxy Note 9
Tom’s Guide already did some early benchmarks of the brand new Galaxy Note 9 with 6GB of RAM vs the iPhone X, which features only have the RAM, and we bet you're all dying to know how the two smartphones stack up to each other. The short answer is: Apple's iPhone X beats Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 in most tests.
Despite the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip and 6GB of RAM, the Galaxy Note 9 isn't as fast as the iPhone X, according to the benchmarks performed by Tom’s Guide. Galaxy Note 9 only managed to score 8,876 points Geekbench 4 compared to the 10,357 points scored by the iPhone X.
In fact, Samsung brand new Galaxy Note 9 proved to be slower even than the OnePlus 6, which scored 9,088 points. Also, its performance appears to be close to its little brother's, the Galaxy S9+, which scored 8,295 points on the Geekbench 4 multicore benchmarks performed by Tom’s Guide.
On the 3DMark Slingshot Extreme 3.1 benchmark, Galaxy Note 9 managed to get close to the iPhone X with a score of 4,639 vs 4,994. Close, but no cigar, since the OnePlus 6 beats both with a score of 5,124 points, and the performance of Galaxy Note 9 is very close to that of Galaxy S9+ with its score of 4,634 points.
One thing were Samsung's brand new Galaxy Note 9 smartphone outperformed the iPhone X and other smartphones in the same category is in display testing, where Galaxy Note 9's Super AMOLED prove to be the bright and gorgeous display we thought it is by emitting 604 nits of brightness vs 574 nits of the iPhone X.
Furthermore, the Galaxy Note 9's display is so colorful that it beat iPhone X's display in display color gamut test by registering 224 percent of the sRGB color gamut vs only 128.6 percent registered by the iPhone X. But, at the end of the day, Apple's one-year-old iPhone X is still faster than Samsung's brand new Galaxy Note 9.