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what's up guys David hearing a really cool new feature on the Galaxy Note 7 is the phone's ability to scale its native 2k resolution all the way down to either 1080p like on d1 + 3 or even 720p like on the iPhone 6s now obviously Samsung's main intention with this feature is to help improve battery life as more pixels leads to more power consumption so by lowering the resolution in theory you should be able to save yourself some juice that's why it's under the power sitting mode in these settings however what's interesting is you have the ability to customize this mode now and you could actually lower the resolution while not affecting the CPU performance so you leave the CPU unaffected but you do lower the resolution which begs the question well the 720p note 7 perform better than the note 7 at the regular 2k resolution well that is exactly what we're going to be testing here in this video we're gonna be seeing whether or not the low resolution actually makes a difference and if so how much but before we get into it I want to give a big shout-out to Braintree payments for making this video possible so developing your own mobile app can be complex but integrating your own payment option doesn't have to be with Braintree your business can accept nearly every type of payment from any device with just one integration everything from pay cells to PayPal to Android pay or whatever new payment option comes next Braintree is simple flexible SDKs make your job and your payments easier learn more at Braintree payments comm / Bombo all right let's get right into it all right so on your left you have the Galaxy Note 7 running at its native 2k resolution and on your right is the note 7 scaled down to 720p so in the first row of system apps there is no separation between the two with both phones performing almost identically and so far here in the second row the phones look like mirror images of each other with each phone loading up subway surfers at pretty much the same exact rate so somewhat surprising results as you'd expect them to be at least some differences when loading up but we'll see what happens here in Angry Birds and yeah again the lower resolution at least the way Samsung has implemented it here has a made a difference yet as both won't start working on smash it it looks like these 720p note 7 has actually pulled ahead and moves on to Photoshop mix so there you go there's the first app that the lower resolution has seemed to load faster but it wasn't by much as the 2k note 7 is right behind the 720p note 7 with both phones struggling here to load up Photoshop mix so we'll see if these 720p note 7 could add onto its lead that it gained from smash it and know the opposite actually happens with the 2k note 7 finishing 1st and moving on to lab Civ so very mixed results thus far as both will start working on creating a time-lapse from the same exact video file now I don't expect either phone to have different results in this app as the display resolution most likely won't have an impact on processing the time-lapses frames and yeah from the looks of it both are rendering the file at an identical rate with the 2k note 7 remaining only slightly ahead thanks to it starting a bit earlier so at this point I think it's somewhat safe to say that a lower display resolution at least the way samsung has implemented it here doesn't make too much of a difference when it comes to the speed test honestly I was expecting the biggest difference to happen in the gaming row as that's usually where a higher resolution taxes the GPU but I see I saw it didn't seem to matter all that much of course which is quickly launched and jumped into the games and didn't actually play them where a lower resolution would have likely made a bigger difference but either way when it comes to overall performance the lower resolution settings on the note 7 doesn't seem to make much of a difference the 2k note 7 finishes the first stop at the time of 2 minutes and 2 seconds with the 720p notes I've been finishing one second later with the time of two minutes and three seconds so obviously not enough of a difference with either to call one faster or slower it just looks like the note 7 performs the same regardless of what you set the resolution to but nonetheless if this is an accurate indication of how a natively lower resolution phone would perform then the idea of a lower resolution being an advantage is obviously wrong but on the other hand it might just be that Samsung's implementation is not an accurate indication as technically those extra pixels are still there whereas on a natively lower resolution phone they aren't let me know what you guys think it is down below in the comments but with both bones finishing the second lap within one second of each other again that is it for me in this video thank you guys for watching and as always I'll see you in the very next episode