Last night, both LG and Samsung launched their respective flagship smartphones for the year. Both phones come with the latest hardware and two new SoCs in particular, the LG G5 uses the Snapdragon 820 and the Samsung Galaxy S7 uses the Exynos 8890 SoC. According to Phonearena, the LG G5 beats the Galaxy S7 in synthetic benchmarks. The LG G5 was able to post considerably better scores than Galaxy S7 in the AnTuTu, Vellamo Metal and GFXBench benchmarks.
This latest revelation puts the LG G5 ahead of the Samsung Galaxy S7, at least in the performance department. That said, it should be kept in mind that these are just preliminary results and more synthetic benchmarks, as well as thorough real life usage, are required to conclude on the phones' performance. It's a good start for Qualcomm though, who is betting big on the Snapdragon 820. Qualcomm has used a new Kryo core CPU architecture for the Snapdragon 820. Samsung's Exynos 8890 has the Mongoose architecture. While the Snapdragon 820 uses a quad-core SoC, the Exynos 8890 has an octa-core setup.
To recap, the LG G5 sports a 5.3-inch display offering 2K resolution, has 4GB of RAM, 32GB of on-board storage, a 16MP+8MP dual camera setup at the rear and an 8MP camera at the front. This is also the first phone to have a modular metal unibody allowing users to remove the 2800mAh battery.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 on the other hand features a 5.1-inch AMOLED display with a 2K resolution. It also comes with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of on-board storage. There is a 12MP ‘dual-pixel’ camera at the back and a 5MP camera at the front. The S7 has a glass and metal unibody design with 3000mAh battery.
Both phones are expected to be launched in India in a few months.