Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 Performance - Work, Gaming, Battery
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Work Performance – PCMark
We tested the Samsung Galaxy A7 2018’s performance using PCMark, which simulates work applications like web browsing, playing video, writing text and editing photos.
Work 2.0 | Honor Play | Honor 10 | Samsung Galaxy S9 |
Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 |
Performance Score (Average) |
7361 | 7106 | 5618 | 5379 |
Web Browsing | 7695 | 7295 | 5357 | 5278 |
Video Editing | 5499 | 5159 | 5265 | 4413 |
Writing | 6649 | 6752 | 4673 | 5056 |
Photo Editing | 13326 | 12910 | 7560 | 7427 |
Data Manipulation | 5764 | 5524 | 5616 | 5147 |
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Samsung Exynos SoCs have never been particularly strong in work applications, and the Samsung Exynos 7885 is no exception. After all, it only has two high-performance ARM Cortex-A73 cores.
Gaming Performance – 3DMark
We tested the Galaxy A7 2018’s gaming performance using 3DMark, using the Ice Storm Unlimited test.
Ice Storm Unlimited | Samsung Galaxy S9 |
Honor Play | Honor 10 | Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 |
Gaming Score | 39588 | 31622 | 30560 | 15354 |
Graphics | 45577 | 37351 | 34801 | 15788 |
Physics | 27116 | 20576 | 21423 | 14005 |
Graphics Test 1 | 267.9 fps | 208.9 fps | 206.2 fps | 136.5 fps |
Graphics Test 2 | 157.2 fps | 132.8 fps | 119.5 fps | 45.8 fps |
Physics Test | 86.1 fps | 65.3 fps | 68.0 fps | 44.5 fps |
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The Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 (MY | US | UK) has modest gaming performance. Unlike the Honor Play and Honor 10, which boast a 12-core GPU, or the Galaxy S9 with its 18-core GPU, the Galaxy A7 2018 only has a dual-core GPU.
Battery Life – PCMark
We then tested the Galaxy A7 2018’s battery performance using PCMark. It basically ran the PCMark work tests until its battery capacity dropped to 20%.
Work 2.0 | Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 |
Honor Play | Samsung Galaxy S9 |
Honor 10 |
Battery Life | 11 hours 25 mins | 9 hours 56 mins | 9 hours 6 mins | 8 hours 56 mins |
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Now that is really amazing battery life – just short of 11.5 hours! This is not just screen-on time. It’s running the Work 2.0 benchmark over, and over again, for over 11 hours!
It lasted 1.,5 hours longer than the Honor Play, 2 hours longer than the Samsung Galaxy S9, and an astounding 2.5 hours longer than the Honor 10!
Of course, it was still not as good as last year’s Galaxy A7 2017, which lasted 12 hours on its larger 3,600 mAh battery.
Battery Recharging Performance
The Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 (MY | US | UK) comes with an adaptive fast charger with a power output of 7.75 W. Take a look at how fast it recharged the 3,300 mAh battery.
It took the Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 (MY | US | UK) just 115 minutes (1 hour 55 minutes) to recharge its battery from 20% to 100%. Pretty good performance, considering it’s just using a 7.75 watt charger.
That is a battery life : recharging ratio of 5.8 : 1 – a good ratio. A rule of thumb – for one hour of battery life, charge it for 10.5 minutes.
The fastest recharging happened up to the 90% level. This took just 87.5 minutes. Then the recharging speed slowed down, and it took a further 27.5 minutes to top up the remaining 10%.
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