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AppleInsider disputes Samsung ‘Ingenius’ ad

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By Steven M. Peters Updated Published
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From New Samsung ad attacks iPhone X download speed, ignores performance benchmarks:

 

Samsung touts data obtained from Ookla’s Speedtest Intelligence Data obtained February through April of 2018 as the basis for the claim. Weighted average download speeds of all major LTE carriers were compared.

In our own testing of the S9+ vs iPhone X, we saw no such numbers, largely due to the actual speeds we were able to achieve in our area. Others out there, where faster speeds were available, were able to achieve some pretty remarkable download results on the S9 and S9+.

Regardless, the ad clearly doesn’t step into other, arguably more crucial, areas of phone performance where our tests had iPhone X in a clear lead. Looking at the Geekbench results, iPhone X completely destroys the S9+, especially in single core performance. The iPhone came in with single- and multi-core scores of 4,243 and 10,433, respectively, while the S9+ managed scores of 2,007 and 8,307.

Graphics-wise, iPhone X still outpaced the S9+. The S9+ scored 14,308, very close to, but not topping, iPhone’s 15,177. In all our testing, there were a couple tests where the S9+ won out, but by-and-large the iPhone X was the more powerful device.

Queue the ad:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7trMPJNBV20&w=840&h=503]

My take: Not Samsung’s finest. That would be this:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiVrBbWZQdQ&w=840&h=503]

or this:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QNfBG3pjJU&w=840&h=503]

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