One of AnandTech's more in-depth coverage pieces last year was our analysis of the two different version of the. Specifically we covered the quite large differences between units offered with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 and Samsung’s own Exynos 9810.This year again we’re seeing Samsung continue their dual-sourcing strategy in. This time we’re pitting the new against Samsung’s own new. We were able to extensively benchmark the new Snapdragon 855 back at CES – however we don’t know much about the new Exynos 9820.At last year’s Galaxy S9 reveal at MWC2018 we were able to. Unfortunately this year with Samsung dedicating the launch to a completely different event in San Francisco, we weren’t able to get our hands on the units immediately.
It took a while, but with the help of some fellow colleagues over at TechRadar, I was able to briefly have access to both units of the Galaxy S10 and run some quick benchmarks.I kept things to a minimum and opted to just run PCMark and Speedometer 2.0 – both benchmarks are some of my favourite in terms of representing the true perceived performance and experience of a smartphone. Both phones were set in performance mode and were running firmware as sampled by Samsung.In PCMark’s Web Browsing test, the new Galaxy S10s both perform well. Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - While I personally detest the practice, it's easy to understand why Samsung does this. They know better than AnandTech the deficiencies of their phones, they don't need AT to tell them. The key point is they don't want AT to tell consumers, because Samsung wants to sell phones.
The Samsung Galaxy Note10 will be fueled by the Exynos 9825 in Europe. And 9825 may not seem large, but it's possible that the Snapdragon 865 will. Note9 and iPhone X. So you can see how much of a change that is.
Especially during the launch when consumer sentiment and momentum is at its peak, Samsung doesn't want negative coverage, and so that would be a deciding factor why it would withhold phones from AT.Doesn't speak well of Samsung to do that, and one would think this wouldn't be an issue if they actually had confidence in the S10. The unimpressive performance of the Exynos vs. Snapdragon is probably one of the reasons why.