Galaxy: Pro and Why It Matters

The Galaxy S26 Ultra speed test is finally here. And it's going head-to-head against the iPhone in our most intensive gauntlet ever, where we're not just opening apps, we're interfacing with everything on the phone, from scanning QR codes to taking burst shots with dynamic lighting in the camera. We built a custom website hosted locally on our own server for deeper, more controlled results. And we're even running AI models on device to really push these phones and their RAM to the limit. This year, Samsung brought some pretty big improvements, starting with the fastest clock speed ever recorded in a phone at a whopping 4.74 GHz. It's also got 24% faster graphics rendering, higher memory bandwidth, and a vapor

chamber that's 15% larger. Of course, the iPhone also got a massive overhaul compared to the iPhone 16, where it has the Apple made A19 Pro chip, 12 GB of RAM, and that new aluminum unibody with Apple claiming a 40% improvement in sustained performance. Will that be enough to get the iPhone back into the win column? Or will Samsung's recent win streak continue? Let's find out. This video is sponsored by Anker, who sent out their new 300 W power bank from their flagship Prime lineup. And it is easily the most advanced power bank I've ever tested. It's pretty compact given its massive 26,000 mAh capacity, but

what really makes it stand out is how smart it is. It's got a screen for real-time charging data, and with the app, you can actually control everything. You can choose how the power gets distributed, either letting it manage things automatically or customizing it by limiting certain ports or even setting timers. So, you can get up to 140 watts from a single port, which is enough to bring something like a MacBook Pro to 50% in under 30 minutes. Or you can get 300 watts of total output across the ports, letting you charge two laptops and a phone or a tablet at the same time. And when the power bank fully depletes, you can recharge it up to 50% in as little as 13 minutes. By using two USBC ports for up

to 250 watts of input. Anker also sent out their Prime charger, which they say is the world's most compact 160 watt multiport charger with it using Gan Prime 2.0 and Power IQ 5.0, know, which automatically detects what each device actually needs and allocates the right amount of power to each port, so everything charges at its own maximum speed all at the same time. I especially like how the screen on here adapts to the orientation when you plug it in, either upside down or sideways, which is one of those things that sometimes you just have to do. And just like the power bank, it can do up to 140 watts from a single port or 160 watts across all three, all in this super compact design.

You can learn more at the first link down below. All right, we'll kick things off like we always do, starting the stopwatches on each phone and then jumping into the first row where this time we're scanning a QR code. And while the Galaxy was faster at recognizing the QR, the iPhone was faster at loading the actual textbased menu, giving it the early lead as both phones snap 10 portrait shots as fast as they can, where from the looks of it, they do so at about the same rate, allowing the iPhone to maintain its lead as we work on the 4K video recording. Now, this task isn't about speed. They're both recording the same 1 minute clip and instead it's about pushing the thermals and those new vapor chambers in a

realworld task that generates quite a bit of heat, especially since we have the cameras constantly making exposure and focusing adjustments with our model moving back and forth. So, it's going to be interesting to see how these phones respond as we work on the browser, which is made up of six different tasks, including loading the full locally hosted websites, playing and decoding a video, rendering a 3D model, loading a map, and also zooming in on it, as well as making calculations, and plotting a 2D chart where while the iPhone was faster at initially loading the website, the Galaxy made up for it in these subtasks, meaning the phones are still neck andneck midway through this second

row. But there is still a lot of test left to go and every new task that we go through further stresses the phones and their thermal limits. However, it doesn't seem like either phone is being affected. They're both just blazing through these apps with the iPhone still being able to hang on to that early lead. We'll see if it can create some separation here in the gaming row, but no, it was only able to trade blows with the Galaxy through the first two games. And hearing Going Balls, from the looks of it, the Galaxy was a bit faster. So, it's closing in on the iPhone as we work on the last game in Zombie Fire where there you go. The Galaxy makes the comeback with us now all tied up as we

start working on the AI task. So, what we're doing here is running Google's Gemma 4 model locally on each phone. So, there's no internet or cloud involved. And for this task, we're uploading a restaurant menu for OCR or visual processing and then asking the model to output structured JSON. Now, this really taxes the GPU and the NPU, but it especially taxes the RAM since the entire AI model, we're talking gigabytes, has to fit in memory, and every single word it generates has to run through it. The Galaxy's UI unfortunately doesn't scroll like the iPhones does here. So, the indicator to pay attention to is this button right here, where the Galaxy finishes first, officially taking the lead and moving on

to photo editing in Snapseed. The iPhone is just about done with the AI task, but it did dig itself in a bit of a hole. It was 9 seconds slower in that AI task overall, and the Galaxy is showing no signs of slowing down with it absolutely ripping through this video export, while the iPhone is just barely getting started with the photo export. And unfortunately for the iPhone, it's doing so at a significantly slower rate, causing it to fall another 8 seconds behind the Galaxy, which is wrapping up with the final task in this first lap, unzipping a 6 GB file, clocking in a time of 3 minutes and 59 seconds in lap number one. But I'm really looking forward to what happens here in lap

number two, because with the AI model and all the heavier duty tasks we did this time around, I don't know if these phones are going to be able to keep all the apps open in the background. And there you go. The Galaxy fails to keep flip diving open, which technically could open the door for the iPhone to make a comeback. And with the Galaxy also failing to keep Subway Surfers open, it's not entirely impossible, especially since the Galaxy looks like it's going to have to continue to reopen these apps as the iPhone finishes the first lap with a time of 4 minutes and 32 seconds. But no, it looks like it's going to be too little too late for the iPhone with the Galaxy finishing up with

Facebook and crossing the finish line in 4 minutes and 46 seconds. So, at this point, the iPhone is just working on cutting down on the deficit. And it is doing a surprisingly good job at keeping every single one of the apps open and ready to go. cutting its deficit in half in lap number two, finishing the total test 15 seconds later with a time of 5 minutes and 1 second, making the winner and still fumbluff style speed test champ, the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Anyways, that is it for me in this video. Thank you for watching and as always, I'll see you in the very next episode.