The Samsung Galaxy S10 performs even better than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 reference device we tested last month.
For this week, at least, the Samsung Galaxy S10+ is the fastest Android phone on the market. The S10+, currently on pre-order with a shelf date of March 8, is the first US phone we’ve seen with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 processor, which we discovered last month is significantly faster than the Snapdragon 845 in last year’s Android flagships.
(Earlier this week, Xiaomi announced the Mi 9, a Snapdragon 855-based phone that will never come to the US, so it isn’t competitively relevant here.)
At least on benchmarks, it looks like Samsung hasn’t damaged the 855’s performance. The Galaxy S10+ (we tested an 8GB RAM/128GB storage unit) benchmarked almost exactly like the 855 reference device all around, and better than the 855 reference device on PCMark, which uses some older APIs that Qualcomm warned me that the reference device didn’t support.
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That means a 40 percent jump in single-core Geekbench scores over the Galaxy S9, and a 20 percent improvement in GFXBench graphics frame rates.
