GSM finally re-did their tests on the final/retail S6/S6 Edge units today, and the performance and battery-life figures improved tremendously.
I'm relieved to see 11 hr web-browsing and 12 hr video playback, which confirms the official numbers Samsung gave us at MWC. I knew early numbers were incorrect, seeing as how Samsung never lied about battery life figures for previous Samsung phones.
Performance, especially 3D performance, has improved tremendously.
All the charts on this link: Samsung Galaxy S6 review: Subject Zero - page 5 - GSMArena.com
To summarize, the S6's benchmark scores are more stable now. On Antutu, it hovers around a 69,000-70,000 area instead of giving the odd 56,000-61,000 in the pre-release units.
Its GeekBench multicore score is now at 5,200, which is a sizeable increase from 4,500-4,600 from pre-release units.
Moving to 3D performance, the S6's off-screen performance for t-rex is now at 59 FPS, which is 10-11 higher than its performance pre-release and much higher than any other phone.
I suggest we ignore on-screen performance, since those numbers don't factor in resolution and almost every single game runs at 1080p, so those numbers won't give us accurate readings.
In terms of browser and storage performance, the S6 is far ahead of every other phone.
I'm relieved to see 11 hr web-browsing and 12 hr video playback, which confirms the official numbers Samsung gave us at MWC. I knew early numbers were incorrect, seeing as how Samsung never lied about battery life figures for previous Samsung phones.
Performance, especially 3D performance, has improved tremendously.
All the charts on this link: Samsung Galaxy S6 review: Subject Zero - page 5 - GSMArena.com
To summarize, the S6's benchmark scores are more stable now. On Antutu, it hovers around a 69,000-70,000 area instead of giving the odd 56,000-61,000 in the pre-release units.
Its GeekBench multicore score is now at 5,200, which is a sizeable increase from 4,500-4,600 from pre-release units.
Moving to 3D performance, the S6's off-screen performance for t-rex is now at 59 FPS, which is 10-11 higher than its performance pre-release and much higher than any other phone.
I suggest we ignore on-screen performance, since those numbers don't factor in resolution and almost every single game runs at 1080p, so those numbers won't give us accurate readings.
In terms of browser and storage performance, the S6 is far ahead of every other phone.