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Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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Re: Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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The exynos vs snapdragon issue is a long standing issue with Samsung. There's also very significant differences between the flagship phones like the S22 ultra sold in EU (exynos) and the ones sold in the US or Asia (snapdragon) Getting an Exynos galaxy means more thermal throttling, lower performances and is just not competitive with other brands for the budget.

is it legal to sell products with different quality under same brand ? I mean if I consider myself mislead, do I have a case ?

Re: Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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post #141

The exynos vs snapdragon issue is a long standing issue with Samsung. There's also very significant differences between the flagship phones like the S22 ultra sold in EU (exynos) and the ones sold in the US or Asia (snapdragon) Getting an Exynos galaxy means more thermal throttling, lower performances and is just not competitive with other brands for the budget.

is it legal to sell products with different quality under same brand ? I mean if I consider myself mislead, do I have a case ?

In the same market, maybe, but Samsung has U.S. versions of their products as do many other brands.

Re: Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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Why would Samsung own flagship chip perform worse than qualcoms? Wouldn't it be in Samsung's interest to either use an inferior version of the snapdragon or throttle it?

They still need a competitive offering against other Android manufacturers at the high end. Xiaomi and others are happy to buy Qualcomm chips if it gives them the high end advantage

I don't understand, in the US Samsung uses Qualcomm but it is the US where a lot of these Chinese phones are not available yet in Europe where I can buy a Huawei phone Samsung uses Exynos.

Re: Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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post #141

The exynos vs snapdragon issue is a long standing issue with Samsung. There's also very significant differences between the flagship phones like the S22 ultra sold in EU (exynos) and the ones sold in the US or Asia (snapdragon) Getting an Exynos galaxy means more thermal throttling, lower performances and is just not competitive with other brands for the budget.

is it legal to sell products with different quality under same brand ? I mean if I consider myself mislead, do I have a case ?

Happens all the time with monitors and dual sourcing of parts like panels where it is lottery on who has supplied. With the s22 the 'intl' and 'us' models have different model numbers. I'm more concerned when buying a car and trying to figure out in which country it has been assembled (quality and parts used can differ)

Re: Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They still need a competitive offering against other Android manufacturers at the high end. Xiaomi and others are happy to buy Qualcomm chips if it gives them the high end advantage

I don't understand, in the US Samsung uses Qualcomm but it is the US where a lot of these Chinese phones are not available yet in Europe where I can buy a Huawei phone Samsung uses Exynos.

To be honest, I also do not get Samsung's strategy. None of my tech literate friends in europe would buy Samsung because of this. I really wonder how much it impacts their sales.

Re: Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They still need a competitive offering against other Android manufacturers at the high end. Xiaomi and others are happy to buy Qualcomm chips if it gives them the high end advantage

I don't understand, in the US Samsung uses Qualcomm but it is the US where a lot of these Chinese phones are not available yet in Europe where I can buy a Huawei phone Samsung uses Exynos.

This is because of old contracts and agreements, including patent agreements for LTE modem etc

Re: Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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It is not at all surprising to me that the A52s’ 768G benches higher since it has 4 A78s vs the 1280’s 2. It is surprising that it seems to do better in power as well, since the 1280 is manufactured on a superior process.

What is surprising to me is that they compare A53 to A52s and not A52.

Re: Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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>Rumors are the iPhone 14 will have the same A15 and only the Pro will get the A16. I think you'll see a bunch of people freak out about this, but honestly, phones really don't need to be faster at this point. I think if this rumor were true then Apple would not have launched the iPhone SE with the A15. There was really no reason for the SE to have the A15 but they shoved it in there, anyway.

The SE is an odd ball device. It is a device that is explicitly for the crowd that will not upgrade their phone every year. Apple wanted to make sure they had a 5G phone for that crowd because they want all their devices on 5G now. They could have put an A14 in it, but they needed the efficiencies of the A15 to make up for the 5G battery suck because they could only increase battery capacity so much and still fit the…

Possibly. However, Apple does continue to sell the 12 and 12 Mini. However, the 12 Mini is substantially more expensive... because reasons.

TBH the Apple lineup has never been more confusing.

Re: Samsung's latest Galaxy A53 is 33% slower than the previous Galaxy A52s

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post #32

Fight me: Single-core performance is still much more important than multi-core performance for most things you do on a phone, including web browsing.

I get down voted every time I say that. Single core performance will always be the best indicator of how fast the phone is IRL. Any application that is basically a wrapper around a javascript heavy web app is going to run like ass on a phone that has a low single core performance even if the phone has great multicore performance.
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