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Video shows the Galaxy Note 5 can’t keep up with the iPhone 6 despite superior hardware

Published Aug 25th, 2015 3:30PM EDT
Galaxy Note 5 Vs. iPhone 6 Speed Test
Image: Zach Epstein, BGR

If you were to pit the Galaxy Note 5 against the iPhone 6 in terms of raw specs, the Note 5 would clobber Apple’s 2014 flagship phone. As we’ve seen in the past, however, hardware specs don’t tell us everything we need to know about a phone’s performance.

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A YouTuber with the account name DroidModderX ROOT Master (in other words, not an Apple fanboy) recently decided to pit the Galaxy Note 5 against the iPhone 6 in a speed test for opening up various applications. Despite the fact that the Note 5 has 4GB of RAM and the iPhone 6 has just 1GB of RAM, the iPhone 6 kept pace with the Note 5 in terms of being able to quickly open and load common apps.

But where the iPhone really blew the Note 5 out of the water was when DroidModderX started opening up apps for the second time. In this case, the apps that had already been opened once on the iPhone 6 popped up instantly while the apps that had been opened on the Note 5 still had to go through their full load times.

“As you can see, [the iPhone 6] is kind of blowing the Note 5 out of the water now because it doesn’t have to totally reopen apps,” DroidModderX explains during the video. “The Note 5 closes out every app and then totally has to reopen it… Part of the problem with TouchWiz is the way it handles memory… where as the iPhone 6 was able to just reopen the app from in the background.”

Check out the whole video below and see for yourself.

Prior to joining BGR as News Editor, Brad Reed spent five years covering the wireless industry for Network World. His first smartphone was a BlackBerry but he has since become a loyal Android user.