Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 Review : Tech ARP Editor’s Choice!

Work + Gaming Performance

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 Work Performance

We first tested the Galaxy Z Flip 6 using PCMark, which simulates work applications like web browsing, playing video, writing text and editing photos.

Work 3.0	Z Flip 6	S23 Ultra	S24 Ultra	Z Flip 5	Z Flip 4
Mobile Platform	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8+ Gen 1
Performance Score	17784	16408	14931	14655	14429
Web Browsing	14520	15680	11663	11404	12097
Video Editing	8117	7879	6474	7943	7387
Writing	23424	22257	20333	19525	17593
Photo Editing	33048	35533	34350	324420	31762
Data Manipulation	19501	12171	14070	11788	12523

Will you look at that? The Galaxy Z Flip 6 was able to deliver 19% better performance with the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as the Galaxy S24 Ultra, and 21% better performance than the SD 8 Gen 2 used in the Galaxy Z Flip5.

This is likely due to its vapour chamber – the first in a Galaxy Z Flip smartphone, and 150% larger than the one used in the Galaxy S23 Ultra.

 

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 Storage Performance

PCMark also has an Android Storage 2.0 benchmark that measures the smartphone’s storage I/O performance.

Storage 2.0	Z Flip 5	Z Flip 6	S23 Ultra	S24 Ultra	Z Flip 4
Mobile Platform	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8+ Gen 1
Storage Score	48435	47552	41647	33005	27271
Sequential Read (MB/s)	2676.53	2696.61	2592.42	2907.37	1350.51
Random Read (MB/s)	49.95	59.23	38.25	60.98	33.94
Sequential Write (MB/s)	2631.38	2956.52	603.29	3084.95	256.81
Random Write (MB/s)	76.66	100.39	81.44	106.34	50.29

The Galaxy Z Flip 6 appears to be using flash memory with significantly faster random read and write speeds compared to the Galaxy S24 Ultra.

 

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 Gaming Performance

For gaming, we tested the Galaxy Z Flip 6 using 3DMark, with these results :

3DMark (Unlimited)	S24 Ultra	Z Flip 6	S23 Ultra	Z Flip 5	Z Flip 4
Mobile Platform	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8+ Gen 1
Steel Nomad Light	1470	1447	NA	659	NA
Solar Bay	8576	8588	NA	5481	NA
Wild Life Extreme	5020	4810	3814	3705	2636
Wild Life	20534	20291	14554	14823	11144
Sling Shot Extreme	19653	11570	13904	13558	6912
Sling Shot	22656	19341	16344	16661	10690

Despite having an ultra-slim, foldable design, the Galaxy Z Flip 6 is no gaming slouch. It handily outperforms last year’s Galaxy Z Flip5 by 16% to 37%.

This comes as no surprise as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 really shines in gaming performance. Its Adreno 750 GPU not only supports ray tracing, it does a fantastic job of delivering top-notch 3D graphics performance.

On top of that, the Galaxy Z Flip 6 now boasts a vapour chamber, and one that is 150% larger than the one used in the Galaxy S23 Ultra. This allows its CPU and GPU to better sustain peak performance during intense gaming sessions.

Although ray tracing games are far and few in between for now, the Solar Bay benchmark shows that the Galaxy Z Flip 6 delivers 57% better 3D with ray tracing performance than the Galaxy Z Flip5!

 

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 Overall Performance

We then tested the Galaxy Z Flip 6 using AnTuTu, yielding these results :

AnTuTu	S24 Ultra	Z Flip 6	S23 Ultra	Z Flip 5	Z Flip 4
Device	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8+ Gen 1
AnTuTu Score	1826776	1419487	1212174	1187296	856357
CPU	456400	364215	261886	393404	205939
GPU	682555	525041	538823	282780	362669
Memory	380519	253538	236163	291048	135707
UX	307302	276693	175302	220064	152042

Not bad! The AnTuTu benchmark shows that the Galaxy Z Flip 6 is 17% and 20% faster than the Galaxy S23 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 5 respectively – both powered by last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Very nice!

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