Google Pixel 9 Pro XL vs Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra - Speed Test (WOW)

Summary

In this tech comparison, the Google Pixel 9 Pro and the Galaxy S24 Ultra go head-to-head in a speed test, showcasing their performance with the Tensor G4 and Snapdragon Gen 3 chips, respectively. From boot-up times to CPU benchmarks, app loading speeds, and gaming performance, the S24 Ultra consistently outperforms the Pixel 9 Pro in most tests. The video rendering test reveals a significant difference, with the S24 Ultra rendering a 4K video much faster than the Pixel 9 Pro, which experiences a rendering issue. The Pixel 9 Pro, despite its smooth user experience, falls short in comparison to the superior real-life performance of the Snapdragon Gen 3 chip.

Takeaways

• 📱 The video is a speed test comparing the Google Pixel 9 Pro with the Galaxy S24 Ultra.
• 🛤️ Google Pixel 9 Pro uses a Tensor G4 chip, while the Galaxy S24 Ultra uses a Snapdragon Gen 3 chip.
• 🏁 The boot-up test shows the Galaxy S24 Ultra boots faster than the Pixel 9 Pro XL.
• 📊 Geekbench 6 CPU benchmark results indicate a significant performance difference, favoring the Galaxy S24 Ultra.
• 👍 Both phones have smooth animations and quick fingerprint scanner responses, but the S24 Ultra's scanner works with the display off.
• 🔁 In the app opening test, the Galaxy S24 Ultra generally loads apps faster than the Pixel 9 Pro XL, with some initial lag observed on the Pixel.
• 🎮 Gaming performance tests show the Snapdragon Gen 3 chip in the S24 Ultra provides faster load times and smooth in-game performance.
• 📹 The video rendering test with Adobe Rush reveals the S24 Ultra outperforms the Pixel 9 Pro XL, which experiences a rendering issue.
• 🔄 RAM management test shows the Pixel 9 Pro XL retains more apps in memory possibly due to its 16 GB of RAM.
• 🏆 Overall, the Snapdragon Gen 3 chip in the Galaxy S24 Ultra demonstrates superior performance in both benchmarks and real-life usage compared to the Tensor G4 in the Pixel 9 Pro XL.
• 🗣️ The video concludes by inviting viewers to share their thoughts in the comments section.

Q & A

What is the main focus of the video?

The main focus of the video is a speed test comparison between the Google Pixel 9 Pro and the Galaxy S24 Ultra, specifically examining the performance of their respective processors, the Tensor G4 in the Pixel 9 Pro and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in the S24 Ultra.

Which phone won the boot-up test in the video?

The Galaxy S24 Ultra won the boot-up test, beating the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL.

What was the Geekbench 6 multi-core score for the Galaxy S24 Ultra?

The Geekbench 6 multi-core score for the Galaxy S24 Ultra was 7,500.

How does the fingerprint scanner on the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL differ from the one on the Galaxy S24 Ultra?

The fingerprint scanner on the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL requires the display to be turned on before it can be used, whereas the Galaxy S24 Ultra's scanner can unlock the phone even when the display is completely off.

Which phone was faster in opening YouTube and Spotify apps?

The Galaxy S24 Ultra was faster in opening both the YouTube and Spotify apps compared to the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL.

In the video, which game showed a significant difference in loading times between the two phones?

In the video, the game 'Asphalt 9 Legends' showed a significant difference in loading times, with the Galaxy S24 Ultra being faster.

What was the outcome of the video rendering test using Adobe Rush?

The video rendering test using Adobe Rush showed that the Galaxy S24 Ultra was faster, while the Pixel 9 Pro XL encountered issues and the rendering process got stuck at 0%.

How does the RAM management compare between the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL and the Galaxy S24 Ultra?

The Google Pixel 9 Pro XL has 16 GB of RAM, which could potentially offer better RAM management. However, the video does not provide a direct comparison of RAM management between the two phones.

What is the conclusion of the video regarding the performance of the two phones?

The conclusion of the video is that while the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL is a smooth and lag-free phone, the Galaxy S24 Ultra with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip shows superior performance in both benchmarks and real-life app loading times.

What is the narrator's opinion on the animations and UI of the two phones?

The narrator appreciates the smooth animations on both the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL and the Galaxy S24 Ultra, noting that the One UI 6.1 on the S24 Ultra, according to ISV, has the best animations at the moment.

Outlines

00:00

📱 Smartphone Speed Test: Google Pixel 9 Pro vs. Galaxy S24 Ultra

This paragraph introduces a speed test comparison between the Google Pixel 9 Pro and the Galaxy S24 Ultra, focusing on the unique Tensor G4 chip in the Pixel versus the Snapdragon Gen 3 in the Galaxy. The test begins with a boot-up test, where the Galaxy S24 Ultra outperforms the Pixel 9 Pro XL. A CPU benchmark using Geekbench 6 reveals a significant difference in multi-core and single-core scores, favoring the Galaxy S24 Ultra. The paragraph also touches on fingerprint scanner speed, with both phones performing similarly but noting the Galaxy's advantage in unlocking with the display off. The script promises a deep dive into app opening tests and real-life performance assessments.

05:01

🕹️ App and Game Performance Review in Speed Test

The second paragraph delves into the performance of various apps and games on both devices. It starts with a Reddit app test, where the Galaxy S24 Ultra shows superior loading and scrolling speed compared to the Pixel 9 Pro XL, which experiences initial lag. The trend continues with apps like Kora and Instagram, with the S24 Ultra consistently outperforming the Pixel 9 Pro. The paragraph also includes a test of the in-game performance of 'Asphalt 9 Legends' and 'PUBG Mobile', where the Snapdragon Gen 3 chip in the S24 Ultra demonstrates faster loading times and smooth gameplay at high settings. The section ends with a video rendering test using Adobe Rush, where the Galaxy S24 Ultra again shows faster processing capabilities, while the Pixel 9 Pro XL encounters an app bug preventing rendering.

10:02

🔍 Final Verdict on Performance and RAM Management

The final paragraph wraps up the speed test by evaluating the RAM management of both phones and summarizing the performance findings. Despite the Pixel 9 Pro XL having a larger 16 GB of RAM, the Galaxy S24 Ultra with its Snapdragon Gen 3 chip shows better app loading times and smoother initial app animations. The paragraph notes that while the Pixel 9 Pro XL is smooth in real-life use, the Snapdragon Gen 3 provides a noticeable performance edge, especially in gaming and app loading. The script concludes by inviting viewers to share their thoughts in the comments and signs off.

Keywords

💡Speed Test

A speed test is a measurement of the performance of a device, often used to compare the processing speed and responsiveness of smartphones. In the context of the video, the speed test is used to evaluate the boot-up time, CPU performance, and app loading times of the Google Pixel 9 Pro and the Galaxy S24 Ultra.

💡Google Pixel 9 Pro

The Google Pixel 9 Pro is a high-end smartphone developed by Google. It is one of the devices being tested in the video for its performance capabilities against the Galaxy S24 Ultra. The script mentions it in relation to its boot-up speed, CPU benchmark results, and its overall performance in various tests.

💡Galaxy S24 Ultra

The Galaxy S24 Ultra is a hypothetical next-generation smartphone from Samsung, used as a point of comparison in the video. It is highlighted for its Snapdragon Gen 3 chip and its performance in boot-up, CPU benchmarks, and app loading times, where it often outperforms the Google Pixel 9 Pro.

💡Snapdragon Gen 3

Snapdragon Gen 3 refers to the third generation of the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, which is a system on a chip that powers many Android smartphones. In the video, the Galaxy S24 Ultra is equipped with this chip, and its performance is compared against Google's Tensor G4 chip in the Pixel 9 Pro.

💡Tensor G4

Tensor G4 is Google's custom-designed system on a chip, which is used in the Pixel 9 Pro. The video discusses its performance in CPU benchmarks and real-life tests, comparing it to the Snapdragon Gen 3 chip found in the Galaxy S24 Ultra.

💡CPU Benchmark

A CPU benchmark is a test that measures the processing power of a computer's central processing unit. In the video, Geekbench 6 is used to perform a CPU benchmark on both the Google Pixel 9 Pro and the Galaxy S24 Ultra to compare their single-core and multi-core scores.

💡Fingerprint Scanner

The fingerprint scanner is a biometric security feature that allows users to unlock their devices using their fingerprint. The video script mentions a comparison between the 3D fingerprint scanner on the Pixel 9 Pro and the one on the Galaxy S24 Ultra, noting differences in their functionality and speed.

💡App Loading Times

App loading times refer to how quickly an application can be launched and become operational on a device. The video compares the app loading times of various third-party apps and games on both the Google Pixel 9 Pro and the Galaxy S24 Ultra, noting differences in performance.

💡Gaming Performance

Gaming performance is the ability of a device to run games smoothly and efficiently. The video script discusses the in-game performance of both devices when running games like Asphalt 9 Legends and PUBG Mobile, highlighting the differences in loading times and frame rates.

💡Video Rendering Test

A video rendering test assesses the device's ability to process and produce video content quickly. In the video, Adobe Rush is used to test the rendering capabilities of both the Google Pixel 9 Pro and the Galaxy S24 Ultra, with a focus on the smoothness of timeline scrubbing and the speed of rendering a 1080p video.

💡RAM Management

RAM management refers to how a device handles and utilizes its random access memory, which affects multitasking and the ability to keep apps running in the background. The video script examines RAM management by revisiting previously opened apps on both devices to see if they remain active and responsive.

Highlights

Speed test comparison between Google Pixel 9 Pro and Galaxy S24 Ultra.

Google Pixel 9 Pro uses Tensor G4 chip, unlike the Snapdragon in other phones.

Galaxy S24 Ultra wins the boot-up test against Pixel 9 Pro XL.

Geekbench 6 scores show a massive difference in CPU performance favoring S24 Ultra.

Both phones show smooth animations and performance in the initial tests.

Fingerprint scanner speed test reveals S24 Ultra's superior functionality.

Apps opening test shows Galaxy S24 Ultra generally loads apps faster than Pixel 9 Pro XL.

Pixel 9 Pro XL experiences initial lag in apps like YouTube and Spotify, unlike S24 Ultra.

Galaxy S24 Ultra demonstrates superior performance in game loading times.

In-game performance for both phones is smooth, with high settings on PUBG Mobile.

Video rendering test in Adobe Rush shows S24 Ultra's faster processing.

Pixel 9 Pro XL's RAM management retains more apps in memory compared to S24 Ultra.

S24 Ultra's One UI 6.1 provides smooth animations and app performance.

Pixel 9 Pro XL is smooth in real-life use but shows slight differences when compared to Snapdragon Gen 3.

Snapdragon Gen 3 is confirmed as the superior chip in both benchmarks and real-life performance.

Call to action for viewers to share their thoughts in the comment section.

Transcripts

what's up guys welcome to a speed test

comparison between the Google pixel 9

Pro versus the Galaxy s24 Ultra while

everyone is using qualcom or mediatech

chips Google is walking on a separate

path we have tensor G4 on the inside and

let's see in real life can it actually

match or even beat the snapon agent 3

that we have inside the Galaxy s24 Ultra

so sit back relaxed we're going to do

everything let's get right into it now

as always we're going to kick things off

by booting up both phones at the same

time here we

go obviously we can never miss the

classic boot up test and uh let's see

which one

wins okay so Galaxy s24 Ultra beats the

pixel 99 Pro XL when it comes to booting

up uh pixel 9 Pro XL is still taking

some time and now it is done now Fresh

Off The Boot first up we're going to

perform a quick CPU Benchmark just to

see a quick difference in terms of the

CPU numbers on the Ed gen 3 versus the

denser G4 firing up geekbench 6 as

always let's run at the same time so we

are done on the Galaxy s24 Ultra as you

can see very very impressive result

we've got 7,50 multi-core score 2,245

single core score pixel 9 Pro still

taking its sweet time okay that is a

massive massive difference in terms of

the multi-core score especially single

core score is not bad but wow that is a

huge difference let's see if it matters

in real life or not we're going to jump

out at the same time also checking out

the animations and everything which

looked really good and smooth on both

phones but will see throughout this test

who is the ultimate smooth king of this

game before we do the apps opening test

I just want to quickly do a quick

fingerprint scanner speed test now that

we have a 3D fingerprint scanner on the

pixel 9 Pro and the pro XL so let's try

it at the same time wow that looked

beautiful and about the same on both

phones of course with different

animations let's try it one more time

yeah definitely do like the animation

style of the Google pixel9 pro Exel but

still do you know Samsung sing scanner

is Superior in one big way which is you

can actually unlock the phone when the

display is completely off so you know

this is the area if I try it it unlocks

right away but on the pixel there's no

fingerprint scanner hotspot like it has

to wake the display up so if I do this

if I keep hold you can see there is no

unlocking which means the display needs

to be turned on on for this fingerprint

scanner to work a little bit weird but

yeah speed-wise it is on par with the

s24 ultra but still s24 Ultra in my

opinion is superior with that out of the

way let's begin the apps opening test

starting off with the basic stuff just

to see the animations on both phones you

can see really butter we've got settings

that also looked very smooth on both

phones can see so far so good but let's

load up more third party applications

including some games and see if these

phones can keep that same level of

smoothness starting things off with

YouTube that is definitely faster on the

Galaxy s24 Ultra uh let's check out the

scrolling speed or smoothness oh did you

notice that lag on the pixel 9 Pro think

it was still loading oh there was still

some lag there let's try again

okay now that everything is

loaded it looks smooth but yeah there

was definitely a lag in the beginning

Spotify that's again faster on the

Galaxy s24 Ultra I'm going to try and do

scrolling and again I there was some lag

there on the

pixel 9 for XL let's try the scrolling

again and now it is smooth so again same

Trend when you open the app app maybe

it's just that it's loading stuff but we

don't see that on the

s24 ultra do

we let's exit open again check out the

exit animation or swipe

animation that looks really smooth on

both phones next up we have Subway

Surfers first game of the test you can

see this is where Snap Dragon agent 3 is

going to flex its

muscles just going to start and leave

that there exit the same time oops try

it one more time

resume yeah that looked really smooth on

both devices no jumpy animations so far

let's try out the Reddit app and see if

we can find the same kind of situation

so here we

go so that loaded up quickly on both

phones at the same time let's

scroll okay definitely better but

nah yeah definitely not like the Galaxy

s24 Ultra which is kind of shocking you

know uh I don't know if you can see

through camera I mean it is a 4K 60 FPS

video so I hope you can see

but um yeah it needs like a few seconds

once everything is loaded then it seems

smooth so I don't know why there's a

noticeable lag in the beginning but uh

yeah let's jump into the next

application which is

Kora slightly faster on the

s24 ultra scroll again now this is

smooth yeah this is smooth definitely no

issues there

whatsoever

Instagram that is uh really fast on both

devices I think the s24 ultra maybe just

a little bit quicker there let's scroll

around okay that is very smooth just

going to load up my profile that is very

fast on both devices let's open the

insta camera and see which one is

quicker so here we go that is definitely

faster on the Google pixel 9 Pro yeah

decisively faster on the pixel 9 Pro

next we got Tik Tok

that is faster on the Galaxy s24

Ultra

um just a little bit of difference there

but yeah performance is looking really

good make sure to follow up your boy on

Tik Tok zare at zero going to check out

next up we have Asphalt 9 Legends which

is now called asphal 9 Legend unite I

think this is the latest update for

Android and iOS so you can see Galaxy

s24 Ultra was definitely faster there

loading up this game let's check out the

ingame loading time so we're going to be

loading up the same stage on both phones

and 3 2 1

go wow that was super duper quick on the

Galaxy s24 Ultra with V8 gen 3 chip

and in terms of the in-game performance

this is definitely this is definitely

running on high settings

with 60 frames per second on both phones

so that is really

good and yeah this is looking very solid

on both devices

let's go ahead and exit at the same time

once again smooth exit on both phones

next we're going to go ahead and launch

pubg Mobile on both phones and uh so far

Snapdragon agent 3 and s24 Ultra has

shown that yes benchmarks do results uh

does result a better performance in real

life you can see it is just faster in

loading up all the games as well as you

know in-game loading times but let's

check out the actual in-game performance

with pubg Mobile on both phones I've set

the graphics as high as possible on both

devices let's first check out the

performance on the Google pixel 9 Pro XL

so it's all loaded up on both

devices you can see now the actual

in-game performance looks very good very

very smooth this is running on the full

Mac settings on both devices yeah it's

looking really good really smooth

checking things on the Google pixel 9

Pro

XL yeah looking pretty

good no France drop whatsoever obviously

for longer period of time there will be

some

differences which is where I think the

s24

ultra should perform better yeah it's

looking really good when it comes to the

the actual in-game performance now with

the Galaxy s24 Ultra with their

Snapdragon H gen 3 chip we've already

tested out many times it is looking very

very good very solid performance when it

comes to gaming in fact agent 3 has the

best GPU for mobile phones mobile phones

when it comes to gaming as concerned so

yeah it's going to look really really

good time to exit out on both phones so

that was again a smooth exit no worries

now last ly we're going to be performing

a video rendering test between these two

phones with Adobe Rush application so

here we

go that was about the same on both

phones we're going to create a new

project and load up the same video on

both phones let's see so far everything

is looking pretty good and equal Let's

test out the timeline scrub on both

phones so you can

see this is definitely looking faster on

the or I would say smoother on the

Galaxy s24 Ultra let's go ahead and

apply the same L on this video and time

to share this in the 1080p option cuz I

don't have the pro version so we're

going to go with 1080p but this video

was in 4k shot on A7 S3 let's go at the

same time

boom

and there we go that is very fast

on the Galaxy s24 Ultra pixel hasn't

even started for some

reason um it's still stuck at

0% yeah maybe that's a bug and I'm going

to try to render this out again on both

phones at the same time and see if this

works

um well seems like this app isn't

working on the pixel 9 Pro XL at this

current time of recording I have the

latest version of this app so you can

see the rendering is just stuck at 0% so

we're just going to leave this at that

and basically give this win to the

Galaxy s24 Ultra but even if it was

rendering pretty sure that the a gen 3

would have uh beaten the tensor G4 let's

check out the RAM management on both of

these two phones now this is where pixel

could come out on the top because it has

16 GB of RAM we're back to our very

first application that we opened the

geekbench 6 so going on both phones you

can see that is still there moving on to

the phone dollar still there okay so

maybe that's a refresh I'm not sure

let's see the other application

sometimes phones have animations and you

know let's try settings okay that is

still there time to launch third party

applications YouTube still there on both

phones

Spotify Subway Surfers

looking nice Reddit

Kora Instagram Asphalt

9 that is a Ana refresh

pubg still there on both phones and

lastly we're back to the Adobe rush so

there we go so it's not just benchmarks

but even in real life you're definitely

going to see better performance on the

AG Gen 4 in terms of apploading times

and even with some application ations in

the beginning you saw how there was a

scrolling lag on the denser G4 on the

pixel9 pro XL for some reason and once

everything was loaded it got smooth so

maybe some apps need to be optimized and

updated for this phone because it just

came out but uh yeah things are looking

quite stable on the oneui 6.1 the latest

version of the s24 ultra even have the

latest uh one UI home app which

according to isiv has the best

animations and at the moment so it was

able to hang up pretty good with the

smooth animations of the pixel9 pro XL

pixel9 Pro XL is definitely a very

smooth phone to use in real life no lag

whatsoever it's been really good but

when you compare it with the agent 3

side by side loading up games there are

definitely slight slow differences you

can notice and uh yeah agent 3

definitely is the superior chip uh in

both benchmarks and real life

performance wise so let me know your

thoughts in the comment section below as

always I'll catch you guys later peace

out