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But which phone is likely to come out on top?
which gets you 256GB of storage.
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
Especially considering the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s starting price.
This $100 price difference would give Apple the edge on Samsung.
Likewise both phones have a 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate.
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
Samsung also beats out Apple in other key display tests.
On top of that Samsung covered 90.8% of the DCI-P3 color space compared to iPhone’s 80.9%.
The S25 Ultra also offered more accurate coloring with a Delta-E score of 0.24 versus Apple’s 0.26.
In this case the lower score is the better one.
It’s difficult gauge screen durability without some in-depth testing.
The phone started picking up scratch damage at level 6 of Mohs scale of hardness.
The iPhone 16 Pro Max came out withscratches at the same level.
We compared the two in a200 photo shoot outto see how they compare to one another.
Despite having a disadvantage on the resolution front, the iPhone 16 Pro Max narrowly won that shoot-out.
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
But the difference between the two wasn’t as wide as we’d have hoped.
There’s a lot more detail and sharpness in them.
In the standard Geekbench 6 benchmarking test, the results were mixed.
iPhone 16 Pro Max.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
Those are actually pretty typical of recent benchmarking comparisons withQualcomm’s latest flagship against a comparable Apple A-series chipset.
The phone scored 11,140 in 3DMark’s Solar Bay Unlimited test, and an average framerate of 42.4 fps.
That dwarfs the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which scored 7,396 with an average frame rate of 28.1 fps.
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
However Apple always exceeds at video transcoding tests.
One seemingly-Apple-inspired change is splitting off the Quick options menu from notifications.
iOS 18.4 came and went without the long-promised upgrades toSiriwhich has been delayed indefinitely.
iPhone 16 Pro Max.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
The one thing we’re very glad to see issatellite connectivity on Galaxy S25 Ultra.
Plus upgrades to Galaxy AI, and the One UI 7 software update.
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
iPhone 16 Pro Max.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
iPhone 16 Pro Max.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
iPhone 16 Pro Max.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
iPhone 16 Pro Max.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
iPhone 16 Pro Max.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
Galaxy S25 Ultra.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
iPhone 16 Pro Max.(Image credit: Tom’s Guide / John Velasco)
