Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 Performance - Work, Gaming, Battery

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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