The Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 Work & Gaming Performance, Battery Life & Recharging Speed

Work Performance – PCMark

We tested the 2018 Samsung Galaxy A8’s performance using PCMark, which simulates work applications like web browing, playing video, writing text and editing photos.

Work 2.0	ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro	Samsung Galaxy S8	Samsung Galaxy A8 2018	ASUS ZenFone 4 Max Pro
Performance Score (Average)	5656	5303	5197	3846
Web Browsing	5708	5155	5035	4371
Video Editing	5888	4998	4433	3716
Writing	4509	5158	5607	2822
Photo Editing	10698	7082	7238	6671
Data Manipulation	3570	4458	4183	2753
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The Samsung Exynos 7885-powered Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 (Price Check) was just 2% slower than the Samsung Galaxy S8, that runs on the faster Samsung Exynos 8895.

 

Battery Life – PCMark

We then tested the 2018 Galaxy A8’s battery performance using PCMark. It basically ran the PCMark work tests until its battery capacity dropped to 20%.

Work 2.0	ASUS ZenFone 4 Max Pro	Samsung Galaxy A8 2018	Samsung Galaxy S8	ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro
Battery Life	14 hours 19 mins	12 hours 19 mins	10 hours 32 mins	8 hours 41 mins
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This is amazing performance! The Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 (Price Check) lasted almost 2 hours longer than the Galaxy S8, and 3.5 hours longer than the ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro. Only the ZenFone 4 Max Pro lasted longer – by exactly 2 hours.

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Battery Recharging Performance

The Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 comes with an adaptive fast charger with a power output of 15 W. Take a look at how fast it recharged the 3,000 mAh battery.

It only took the Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 (Price Check) just over 86 minutes (1 hour 26 minutes) to recharge its battery from 17% to 100%. That is a battery life : recharging ratio of 8.6 : 1 – a truly amazing performance.

The Galaxy A8 2018 recharged fastest in the first 85%, taking only 54 minutes. Its recharging speed slowed them for the remaining 15%, taking an additional 32 minutes.

 

Gaming Performance – 3DMark

We tested the 2018 Galaxy A8’s gaming performance using 3DMark, using the Ice Storm Unlimited test.

Ice Storm Unlimited	Samsung Galaxy S8	Samsung Galaxy A8 2018	ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro	ASUS ZenFone 4 Max Pro
Gaming Score	29509	14684	14015	9751
Graphics	33279	15201	13470	9609
Physics	21130	13121	16328	10285
Graphics Test 1	173.1 fps	134.4 fps	80.7 fps	55.1 fps
Graphics Test 2	124.3 fps	43.8 fps	46.0 fps	33.6 fps
Physics Test	67.1 fps	41.7 fps	51.8 fps	32.7 fps
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The Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 (Price Check) is not a gaming powerhouse like the Galaxy S8, but it has more than decent performance, coming in a little faster than the Snapdragon 625-powered ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro. It was 50% faster than the Snapdragon 430-powered ZenFone 4 Max Pro.

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