hello everyone and welcome to our speed
comparison between the iphone 12 pro max
and the samsung galaxy note 20 ultra
which one of them is the faster phone
my name is vic this is phone arena and
we haven't done one of these speed
comparisons in a while so it's time to
shake things up
and what we'll be doing here is testing
these phones in three different aspects
first is general use just general
everyday apps
second thing is for those of you who do
a lot of photo and video editing on
their phone
it's not something that everyone does
but some people are interested
and of course you also have gaming which
one of these performs
best for gaming so what they can tell
you about these phones
in terms of specs the iphone 12 pro max
is a beast
powered by the apple a14 chip the
world's first
five nanometer chip a lot of transistors
and it also comes with six gigabytes of
ram on board
while the samsung galaxy note 20 ultra
comes with either a snapdragon 865
or the exynos 990 version that we have
up here for
this test and it comes with 12 gigabytes
of ram which is
double that on the iphone so it should
do better with multitasking
so let's go ahead and start with the
first test
which as we said is multitasking we have
14 apps
we have cleared the cache we have logged
in with our credentials and we are
ready to go so at the count of three to
one
let's get this started and notice that
both of these phones are
super fast they open the phones without
a stutter
they're going very fast to this first
round of cold runs
and they're doing very well here neck to
neck
almost no differences
and now it's time for the second round
opening the apps again
as i speak it's going so fast
and finally both finish at about the
same pace with a very slight difference
that could be attributed to the margin
of error
since this is not an automated test
we're doing this by hand but we're
trying to be as
accurate as possible especially in that
editing so in terms of daily use what
you can see is there is no big
difference between the iphone 12 pro max
and the note 20 ultra both run very fast
and you have that 120 hertz refresh rate
on the note 20 now
which gives it that smooth feel and when
scrolling and just using it
but both of them super fast phones for
this next test we're using a 3-minute
4k video that we have recorded on the
samsung galaxy note 20 ultra
and we'll be doing something interesting
we'll just apply a color filter
to make it look a little bit better a
little more vivid
so this is a three minute 4k video let's
go into the native apps
on both devices and apply a warm color
filter
and then save the video and see how long
it takes for these phones
to process this file and then get ready
with the warmer more pleasing version of
this clip
and we'll fast forward this because it
starts to take
a lot of time for both of these phones
this is not an easy task
applying a color filter to a 4k video
it takes a while
and interestingly the note finishes
first with a score of 2 minutes and 58
seconds which is quite fast
and it's doing a good job and the iphone
is still running
so let's see how long it takes the
iphone to complete the task
it is using the native photos app and it
takes around 3 minutes and 10 seconds
until the iphone is also done not a huge
difference
but the note comes up on top by a slight
margin
so the next step on our photo video
editing journey would be to take that
warmer clip that we've just created
and transcode it and make it smaller
turn it from a 4k
clip into a 1080p clip and for this
we'll be using adobe rush
which is a very nice application by
adobe available on both android
and ios
so we're starting the process and you
just notice that
the iphone just flies through the files
it's doing it very quickly let's see how
long it takes it
it's doing very fast and the note is
taking its time
and boom voila the iphone is already
done it took it just around 38 seconds
to complete this task which is super
fast
while the note will still keep on going
and we actually fast things forward a
bit so we don't have to wait out the
whole thing
fast forward
so
and finally the note finishes the task
with three minutes and
one second on the clock so for that
transcoding test the iphone really is
the superior device
so for those of you editing video they
might want to go with the iphone which
is faster in those tasks and it also
comes with imovie which is a nice
application a free application to have
for
video editing and also ios supports more
advanced applications so
the iphone has the advantage for photo
and video editing
okay and for our last round we have the
gaming test and for this gaming speed
test
we have three of the most popular games
out there we have call of duty mobile
we have nba 2k and we have asphalt 9.
and meanwhile we'll be starting them up
and the iphone seems to load it up a
little bit faster
it also has that advantage with nba 2k
and it's also loading up asphalt a
little bit faster than the node
and it's already down so now we can go
into the browser
and then quickly start these apps and
they're all available in the memory on
the iphone
which will win this round great showing
for the iphone
and the note takes just a bit more time
now to explore their gaming performance
further we're also running two popular
benchmarks we're using
gfx bench with the car chase scene so
let's start that benchmark up
and you're already seeing that the note
again takes a bit longer to start up the
benchmark
but once it's loaded up both phones are
running at a pretty good pace
you see no visible dropped frames both
are running pretty smoothly you can see
the car
race textures everything looks brilliant
these phones are really
very capable gaming machines but if we
had to pick a favorite
you have to look at the scores and the
iphone is a bit
ahead again with its gpu pulling a hat
and finally it finishes this test
slightly ahead of the note
and we have one more test here that we
want to show you
again let's start it up and see a
different graphics benchmark with very
beautiful scenery
you can see in the beginning here the
note kind of drops a few frames
so it's not quite as smooth and you're
starting to notice it
because it drops below that 30 frames
per second limit when your eye starts
noticing that the frame
rate is not quite all right but anyway
after a while it stabilizes
and let's wait it out
okay and finally the iphone finishes
first on this test as well with a
slightly higher
graphic score which means that it is
also a slightly better device for gaming
with a slightly more powerful gpu
with it however find some issues with
certain games for example
minecraft tends to melt the battery very
quickly on this iphone while other games
don't
so for some games you might see
increased battery drain
that's probably due to the games not
being optimized yet
and the galaxy note 20 ultra is just
very slightly behind
but it's also a very capable phone so if
you had to pick a winner
now these phones in daily use they're
very similar but the iphone pulls
slightly ahead for photo and video
editing
and also for 3d gaming okay guys thanks
for watching this speed comparison let
me know what you thought about it
which phone did you prefer do you prefer
the iphone 12 pro max or the galaxy note
20 ultra
let me know in the comments