ASUS ZenFone 5 Work Performance, Battery Life + Recharging Speed
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Work Performance – PCMark
We tested the ZenFone 5’s performance using PCMark, which simulates work applications like web browing, playing video, writing text and editing photos.
| Work 2.0 | Honor 10 | ASUS ZenFone Max Pro M1 |
ASUS ZenFone 5 | Samsung Galaxy S9 |
| Performance Score (Average) |
7106 | 6118 | 5742 | 5618 |
| Web Browsing | 7295 | 5815 | 5382 | 5357 |
| Video Editing | 5159 | 4898 | 4938 | 5265 |
| Writing | 6752 | 5722 | 4900 | 4673 |
| Photo Editing | 12910 | 10041 | 9699 | 7560 |
| Data Manipulation | 5524 | 5240 | 4939 | 5616 |
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 is really fast at work applications, beating even flagship smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S9 (Price Check). Only the Kirin 970-powered Honor 10 (Price Check) was faster.
Battery Life – PCMark
We then tested the ZenFone 5’s battery performance using PCMark. It basically ran the PCMark work tests until its battery capacity dropped to 20%.
| Work 2.0 | ASUS ZenFone Max Pro M1 |
ASUS ZenFone 5 | Samsung Galaxy S9 | Honor 10 |
| Battery Life | 14 hours 12 mins | 10 hours 20 mins | 9 hours 6 mins | 8 hours 56 mins |
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The ASUS ZenFone 5 (Price Check) has a 3,300 mAh battery, which gave it a battery life of just under 10.5 hours. This gave it a clear 13-15% advantage in battery life over the Samsung Galaxy S9 (Price Check) and Honor 10 (Price Check).
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Battery Recharging Performance
The ASUS ZenFone 5 (Price Check) supports 18W charging, but only comes with a 10W fast charger. Take a look at how fast it recharged its 3,300 mAh battery.
It took the ASUS ZenFone 5 (Price Check) 104.5 minutes (1 hours 44.5 minutes) to recharge its battery from 20% to 100%. This gives it a battery life : recharging ratio of just under 6:1.
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