Samsung Galaxy S5 vs. Apple iPhone 5s: Spec Showdown

In what appears to be an unending rivalry between two tech giants, Samsung and Apple continue their smartphone arms race. The Korean giant's new Galaxy S5 smartphone is poised to take on Cupertino's current champ, the iphone 5s, as each company tries to leapfrog over the other semiannually.
The Galaxy S5 doesn't look too different from the S4, but it sports a 2.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, a significant bump up from the S4's 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600. The iPhone 5s's A7 processor is impressive, and we won't know whether the Galaxy S5 will beat it until we benchmark it. The iPhone 5s generally
performed much better than the S4, and we'll have to see whether the S5's beefier CPU can jump ahead of it.

 For Wi-Fi the S5 stays ahead of the iPhone 5s, with 802.11ac support and MIMO for fast dual-band connections.

Apple's Retina display was impressive when it was first revealed, but it's fading fast compared to high-resolution Android smartphone screens. The Galaxy S4 already beat it in size and resolution with its 5-inch, 1080p screen, for a pixel density of 441 pixels per inch compared to the iPhone 5s's 4-inch, 1,136-by-640-pixel screen with 326 ppi. The Galaxy S5's slightly larger 5.1-inch 1080p screen shaves the pixel density to 432 ppi, but is still far more crisp than the iPhone 5s's Retina display.

The Galaxy S5's 16-megapixel camera offers double the resolution of the iPhone 5s's 8-megapixel camera, and can record 4K video at 30fps to add insult to injury. It keeps the same 2-megapixel front-facing camera as the Galaxy S4, still edging out the iPhone 5s's 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera.