Battery Life + Recharging, Performance
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Samsung Galaxy A52 : Battery Life
The Samsung Galaxy A52 comes with a large 4,500 mAh battery.
To test its battery life, we turned off Automatic Brightness, and set its display brightness to 50%.
Why 50%? That is actually slightly higher than the average indoor brightness level of 40% during the day, and is what we usually use in all our mobile battery life tests.
It is important to fix the brightness level, to make sure the screen brightness does not change as the ambient brightness changes.
We then ran the PCMark Work 2.0 battery life test until its battery capacity dropped to 20% several times, and this was the best result we obtained with 60 Hz and 90 Hz refresh rates :
| Work 2.0 | Galaxy A52 (60 Hz) |
Redmi 9T | Galaxy A52 (90 Hz) |
Galaxy S20 Ultra |
Note20 Ultra |
| Battery Capacity | 4,500 mAh | 6,000 mAh | 4,500 mAh | 5,000 mAh | 4,500 mAh |
| Battery Life | 15 hrs 33 mins |
19 hrs 50 mins |
12 hrs 30 mins |
11 hrs 32 mins |
10 hrs 9 mins |
| Battery Utilisation (per min.) |
3.86 mAh | 4.03 mAh | 4.80 mAh | 5.78 mAh | 5.91 mAh |
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That’s excellent battery life! Over 15.5 hours with the display set to 60 Hz, and 12.5 hours with a 90 Hz refresh rate.
Samsung Galaxy A52 : Recharging Speed
Take a look at how fast it recharges its 4,500 mAh battery.
| Galaxy S20 Ultra |
Galaxy Note10+ |
Note20 Ultra |
Galaxy A52 |
Redmi 9T | |
| Battery Capacity | 5,000 mAh | 4,300 mAh | 4,500 mAh | 4,500 mAh | 6,000 mAh |
| Charger Output | 25 watts | 25 watts | 25 watts | 15 watts | 18 watts |
| Recharging Time | 57.5 mins | 63 mins | 66.5 mins | 84.5 mins | 184 mins |
| Recharging Speed (per minute) |
69.6 mAh | 54.6 mAh | 54.1 mAh | 42.4 mAh | 26.1 mAh |
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Very nice! Even though it only comes with a 15 watt fast charger, the Samsung Galaxy A52 recharged 62% faster than the Redmi 9T with its 18 watt fast charger!
Samsung Galaxy A52 : Work Performance
We tested the Galaxy A52 using PCMark, which simulates work applications like web browsing, playing video, writing text and editing photos.
| Work 2.0 | Note20 Ultra |
Galaxy Note10+ |
Galaxy A52 |
Galaxy S10+ |
Redmi 9T |
| Mobile Platform | Exynos 990 |
Exynos 9825 |
SD 750G | Exynos 9820 |
SD 662 |
| Performance Score
(Average) |
10523 | 8981 | 7874 | 7846 | 5986 |
| Web Browsing | 8865 | 8293 | 7021 | 8583 | 5844 |
| Video Editing | 6232 | 9166 | 5693 | 5524 | 3423 |
| Writing | 11112 | 9579 | 7454 | 9076 | 6657 |
| Photo Editing | 30789 | 19376 | 15812 | 10710 | 12031 |
| Data Manipulation | 6825 | 6155 | 6424 | 6450 | 4799 |
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G is a powerful mid-range mobile SoC. It is actually as powerful as the flagship Samsung Exynos 9820 in work applications!
Samsung Galaxy A52 Gaming Performance : 3DMark
For gaming, we first tested the Galaxy A52 using 3DMark, with these results :
| 3DMark | Note20 Ultra |
Galaxy Note10+ |
Galaxy S10+ |
Galaxy A52 |
Redmi 9T |
| Device | Exynos 990 |
Exynos 9825 |
Exynos 9820 |
SD 750G | SD 662 |
| Sling Shot Extreme (OpenGL) | 6642 | 5037 | 4470 | 2565 | 1174 |
| Sling Shot Extreme (Vulkan) | 5722 | 4794 | 4314 | 2416 | 1098 |
| Sling Shot | 8128 | 4883 | 4343 | 3764 | 1844 |
The Samsung Galaxy A52 is definitely not as fast in games, as flagship mobile platforms. But it is just over twice as fast as mid-range smartphones like the Redmi 9T.
Samsung Galaxy A52 Overall Performance : AnTuTu
We then tested the Galaxy A52 using AnTuTu, yielding these results :
| AnTuTu | Note20 Ultra |
Galaxy Note10+ |
Galaxy A52 |
Galaxy S10+ |
Redmi 9T |
| Device | Exynos 990 |
Exynos 9825 |
SD 750G | Exynos 9820 |
SD 662 |
| AnTuTu Score | 522735 | 348397 | 341908 | 330549 | 173559 |
| CPU | 146783 | 101187 | 105098 | 100272 | 64505 |
| GPU | 215205 | 156700 | 88068 | 149930 | 31734 |
| Memory | 89376 | 72051 | 60642 | 68188 | 40377 |
| UX | 71371 | 18459 | 88100 | 12159 | 36943 |
Will you look at that? The Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G is right between the Exynos 9820 and Exynos 9825 – both flagship mobile SoCs from Samsung.
It is also notably twice as fast as the old Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 used in the Xiaomi Redmi 9T.
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