OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra
OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra: Which Android phone wins?
The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and the OnePlus 9 Pro are the two all-time Android phones around right now. But which one can claim the elevation spot as the all-time Android phone?
Since it arrived earlier this year, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has been the ultimate example of all the features and capabilities Samsung tin can bring to a smartphone. But there's a new big-screen challenger.
Anything the Milky way S21 Ultra can do, the new OnePlus 9 Pro claims to be able to do it better. Give users a large brandish with a fast refresh rate? The OnePlus 9 Pro tin do that. Concluding a long time on a charge? No sweat, OnePlus says. Even cameras — a long-standing issue with OnePlus phones — have received a lot of attending with the OnePlus 9 Pro.
- All-time phones overall
- What's different between the OnePlus 9 vs. OnePlus 9 Pro
Can OnePlus unseat Samsung from the Android phone throne? To find out, we conducted a OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra face-off. This smartphone battle couldn't be closer.
OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra
| OnePlus 9 Pro | Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra | |
| Starting toll | $969 | $1,199 |
| Screen size | half dozen.7-inch AMOLED (3168 x 1440) | half-dozen.8 inches AMOLED (3200 ten 1400) |
| Refresh rate | 1Hz to 120Hz | 10Hz to 120Hz |
| CPU | Snapdragon 888 | Snapdragon 888 |
| RAM | 8GB, 12GB | 12GB, 16GB |
| Storage | 128GB, 256GB | 128GB, 256GB, 512GB |
| microSD? | No | No |
| Rear cameras | 48MP wide (f/i.8), 50MP ultrawide (f/ii.ii), 8MP telephoto (3x zoom, f/2.4), monochrome lens | 108MP wide (f/1.8), 12MP ultrawide (f/2.2), 10MP telephoto (3x zoom, f/two.iv), 10MP telephoto (10x zoom, f/four.ix), light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation AF sensor |
| Front end cameras | 16MP (f/two.4) | 40MP (f/2.2) |
| Battery size | 4,500 mAh | five,000 mAh |
| Battery life (Hrs: Mins) | 10:38 (60Hz); 10:40 (adaptive) | 11:25 (60Hz), 10:07 (adaptive) |
| Size | 6.4 10 2.9 10 0.34 inches | 6.5 ten 2.97 ten 0.35 inches |
| Weight | half-dozen.9 ounces | eight.08 ounces |
OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra price and availability
Exterior of Samsung'south folding phones, the Galaxy S21 Ultra is the most expensive Samsung device you can buy, with a starting toll of $one,199 for the 128GB model. If you want to increment that storage to 256GB, you'll pay an actress $50, while the ultimate S21 Ultra — which includes 512GB of storage plus 16GB of RAM — costs $1,379. That'southward nevertheless cheaper than last year's base of operations model Galaxy S20 Ultra, which debuted at $1,399.
Even so, the OnePlus 9 Pro costs less than the Galaxy S21 Ultra. OnePlus' entry-level model, with 8GB of memory and the aforementioned 128GB of storage, costs $969. Upgrading to a 256GB model with 12GB of RAM will cost you $1,069.
It's easier to get a Galaxy S21 Ultra, which is available from every major U.Due south. carrier likewise as from Samsung. T-Mobile is the only carrier selling the OnePlus nine Pro in the U.S., though the telephone is too bachelor through OnePlus and retailers like Amazon, Best Purchase and B&H.
Winner: OnePlus nine Pro
OnePlus nine Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra design
Relieve for the dissimilar company logos on the back of each phone, the OnePlus 9 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra await a lot akin. You lot'll find a pair of phones with subtly curved displays — the OnePlus 9 Pro's curve is far less dramatic than last year'southward OnePlus eight Pro — without a whole lot in the style of bezels on the top and bottom of the screen. Flip the phones over, and you'll see rectangular camera arrays in the upper left corner; the photographic camera crash-land on the Galaxy S21 Ultra looks a picayune less prominent thanks to a profile cut blueprint in which the array blends into the side of the phone.
The OnePlus 9 Pro is probably the easier of the two phones to tote around, as it's slightly shorter and not as wide equally the six.5 x 2.97 x 0.35-inch Galaxy S21 Ultra. Samsung's phone weighs in at viii.08 ounces, more than an ounce heavier than the 6.nine-ounce OnePlus nine Pro.
One advantage Samsung ordinarily lords over OnePlus phones has disappeared. The Galaxy S21 Ultra has an IP68 rating for water resistance, simply then does the OnePlus 9 Pro. That's something OnePlus unremarkably skips on its flagships. (The cheaper OnePlus nine, for instance, doesn't have such a rating if you buy the unlocked version.)
the Galaxy S21 Ultra comes in pretty standard Phantom Black and Phantom Silverish colors. Buy the phone directly through Samsung, though, and you tin branch out into Phantom Navy, Phantom Titanium and Phantom Brownish options. And of course, you've got the best Galaxy S21 Ultra cases if you want a different look and added protection and features on top.
OnePlus takes more of a chance with colour than Samsung does, as the OnePlus ix Pro has simply two color options — Forenoon Mist and Pine Green. The former offers a overnice mirror-like sheen, but one that tin attract fingerprints. Besides in some markets, OnePlus locks these colors depending on which spec you're buying, which might be frustrating for some users.
Winner: OnePlus 9 Pro
OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra display
Information technology's a battle of dynamically refreshing displays in a OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Milky way S21 Ultra showdown. Samsung helped introduce this tendency, first with the Galaxy Notation 20 Ultra, and now with the S21 Ultra. That phone'southward massive 6.8-inch AMOLED panel adjusts the speed at which refreshes, depending on what you're doing. Activities like scrolling that benefit from a faster refresh rate tin can brand the display scale up to the maximum 120Hz speed, while more than static activities brand the S21 Ultra'southward screen drop down to 10Hz.
Merely the OnePlus 9 Pro features the same LTPO engineering science in its 6.7-inch display. The refresh range is even wider here than on the Galaxy S21 Ultra, with the OnePlus nine Pro capable of scaling down to 1Hz.
The OnePlus 9 captures more of the DCI-P3 color gamut — 84.9% to the S21 Ultra'southward 81.4%. Those colors are more authentic, too, given the OnePlus nine Pro's Delta-E rating of 0.20 versus a 0.iii rating for the S21 Ultra. (Numbers closer to zero are more than accurate.)
Where the Galaxy S21 Ultra regains an edge over the OnePlus nine Pro is in just how bright its screen gets. Measuring 722 nits, the OnePlus nine Pro is far from dim. But the Galaxy S21 Ultra is even brighter at 821 nits, ensuring that you lot'll come across all of that display even when y'all're in bright sunlight.
Winner: Galaxy S21 Ultra
OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra cameras
Past camera competitions involving Samsung and OnePlus oasis't been much of a fight. Samsung flagships tend to regularly rate among the all-time camera phones available, while OnePlus' cameras accept struggled to keep upwards. Simply the OnePlus 9 Pro introduces a new twist to this long-standing rivalry, with OnePlus teaming up with photo specialist Hasselblad to improve its cameras.
This involves more than simply stamping Hasselblad's name next to the rear lenses on the OnePlus ix Pro (though that branding is certainly there). Instead, the OnePlus 9 Pro benefits from improvements to color calibration that OnePlus and Hasselblad have worked on together.
Going up confronting the cameras on the Galaxy S21 Ultra certainly requires an extra effort. Samsung's phone features four rear shooters — a massive 108MP main sensor, along with a 12MP ultrawide angle lens and a pair of 10MP telephoto lenses offering respective zooms of 3x and 10x. In contrast, there's a unmarried 8MP telephoto lens on the OnePlus 9 Pro with a 3x zoom of its own. You lot also get a 48MP master camera and 50MP ultrawide angle lens also equally a dedicated monochrome camera that, frankly, doesn't add much to the picture.
Nosotros immediately see the benefit of OnePlus' focus on improved colour with this photo of a fruit and vegetable stand up. The OnePlus 9 Pro's shot is vibrant, but nevertheless realistic, while the Galaxy S21 Ultra over-saturates the green peppers, which too appear slightly out of focus.
Moving outside for a close-up shot of a blossom, the S21 Ultra redeems itself. In the S21 Ultra photo, the blossom is in abrupt focus, and the S21 Ultra picks upward small details like chaplet of water on the leaf. The OnePlus nine Pro photograph isn't bad, but those details don't actually stand out, every bit the green leaves in the background seem to blend together.
Low low-cal photos were i area where we really spotted inconsistencies when testing the OnePlus 9 Pro and that's continued in the OnePlus nine Pro vs. Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra face-off. The streetlamp in the OnePlus shot is over-exposed and the night sky around looks fuzzy as a result. Things are placed into much sharper relief in the Galaxy S21 Ultra's photo where the lamps don't blow out details all around them, and the yellow hues from the street lights stretch out beyond the grass.
Testing out the portrait features of the respective camera phones, information technology's something of a tossup. My colleague Marker stands out a little better against the background in the OnePlus ix Pro shot, just apart from his vivid blue shirt, there'south a hazy cast to the background. OnePlus also seemed to smooth things out in a mode that the S21 Ultra did not — y'all tin can see the folds and wrinkles in his t-shirt more distinctly in that photo. The colour cast looks more than natural in the Samsung shot, likewise.
For the OnePlus 9 Pro's ultrawide angle shooter, OnePlus used a freeform lens that's supposed to remove some of the distortion constitute around the edges of broad-angle shots. I can't really say that's in evidence in this particular shot of a lake, but I have seen improved ultrawide shot comparisons elsewhere that demonstrate the OnePlus 9 Pro's skill in keeping that curve out of photos. I just call back the OnePlus ix Pro does a better job keeping the entire paradigm in focus — meet how the dock looks in both shots — fifty-fifty if the bluer sky in the S21 Ultra photo is more than attractive.
We maxed out the zoom on both cameras to 30x to see which telephoto lens you'd trust. Neither photo is really a standout, merely the Milky way S21 Ultra handles colors meliorate — that hazy cast has returned to the OnePlus shot — and everything's in a little better focus thanks to the Zoom Lock feature that can steady your shot from far away.
Overall, I think the Milky way S21 Ultra comes out ahead in this photographic camera face up-off, though information technology'due south much closer than previous OnePlus vs. Samsung showdowns. The OnePlus 9 Pro features the best cameras OnePlus has put in its phones, and that's on brandish here.
Winner: Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra
OnePlus ix Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra performance and 5G
"Ultra" does not necessarily mean "ultimate." While the Galaxy S21 Ultra performs very well on benchmark tests, information technology doesn't noticeably outperform the OnePlus 9 Pro. In fact, on some tests, the OnePlus 9 turns in the ameliorate numbers.
That's non really a surprise, as both phones are powered by a Snapdragon 888 system-on-chip, the all-time silicon Qualcomm has to offering these days. Samsung augments that processing platform with either 12GB or 16GB of RAM. OnePlus ix Pro users get either 8GB or 12GB.
On Geekbench five, the two phones can match each other footstep for stride in the single core test, as the Milky way S21 Ultra turned in a 1,123 score to the OnePlus 9 Pro's 1,126. The OnePlus handset pulls ahead withe multicore performance, reaching 3,685 on Geekbench to the S21 Ultra'south 3,400 result.
Graphics are besides evenly matched, based on the results of 3D Marking's Wild Life Unlimited Exam. Here, the S21 Ultra turned in a 34.4 frames per second score, essentially tying the OnePlus ix Pro's 34.v FPS result. In other words, yous're essentially getting the same performance from either phone — a marking in the OnePlus 9 Pro's favor since it's nigh $250 cheaper than its Samsung rival.
However, the Galaxy S21 Ultra holds an border over the OnePlus 9 Pro when it comes to 5G connectivity. You can use Samsung's phone on any 5G network in the U.S. The OnePlus 9 Pro is a footling more restricted. It works perfectly fine with T-Mobile'due south 5G, but not at all with AT&T 5G.
After this OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra face-off showtime appeared, Verizon and OnePlus announced that the OnePlus ix Pro will work on Verizon 5G — both the slower nationwide network also as the fast Ultra Wideband 5G Verizon has launched in more than 60 cities. The cheaper OnePlus ix won't piece of work with Ultra Wideband, Verizon says.
Winner: Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra
OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra battery and charging
The Galaxy S21 Ultra would seem to have an edge in battery life, given that information technology's powered by a 5,000 mAh battery to the iv,500 mAh power pack within the OnePlus ix Pro. And to be certain, the S21 Ultra lasted a long time on our battery examination, in which nosotros accept phones surf the web continuously over cellular (5G in this case) until they run out of power. With a fourth dimension of 11 hours and 25 minutes, the Galaxy S21 Ultra lasts long enough to country on our best phone bombardment life list.
But there's a large caveat there. We got that long-lasting result when we set up the Galaxy S21 Ultra'due south refresh rate to 60Hz. Enabling the dynamic display feature ate upwardly more battery life, with the S21 Ultra lasting 10 hours and 7 minutes on that exam. That's still really practiced.
Yet, information technology's non as good as the 10 hours and twoscore minutes that the OnePlus 9 Pro lasted with its dynamic display feature turned on. Setting the OnePlus nine Pro to a 60Hz refresh rate really lowered the result by 2 minutes to 10 hours and 38 minutes, which is puzzling.
Regardless, the S21 Ultra manages to win the bombardment life battle, since it clearly can final significantly longer than the OnePlus 9 Pro.
If the OnePlus nine has a slight advantage in terms of bombardment life, it's got a big border over the Galaxy S21 Ultra when information technology comes to recharging the battery. OnePlus equipped this phone with WarpCharge 65T technology which essentially powered up the OnePlus 9 Pro after just 30 minutes. (It got the telephone's to 98%, if you want to split hairs.) The OnePlus 9 Pro besides supports 30W wireless charging with the right charging accompaniment.
That wireless speed is faster than the 25W charging speed that the Milky way S21 Ultra offers. After 30 minutes of charging, our S21 Ultra bombardment was at 56%, well behind the OnePlus nine Pro. And we had to supply our own charger — the Galaxy S21 Ultra doesn't ship with one.
Winner: OnePlus nine Pro
OnePlus nine Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra software and special features
Personally speaking, I prefer the Oxygen OS build of Android that OnePlus uses in its phones over Samsung'south One UI peel. OnePlus' approach looks cleaner and feels more like a pure Android experience. I've also never warmed up to the rounded, large icons that Samsung favors on its phones.
Despite all that, Samsung has an edge over OnePlus that has zero to practice with the software. For starters, the Milky way S21 Ultra is the starting time phone exterior of Samsung's Galaxy Note serial to support the S Pen stylus. (You buy the stylus separately for $forty and you'll need a case to store it in, as there'due south no place on the phone itself to store your new Southward Pen.)
So there'southward the not inconsiderable matter of Android support. Samsung says it will support three major Android updates along with four years of security updates. That's a year longer than what OnePlus promises for both software updates and security.
Winner: Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra
OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra verdict
Past the thinnest of margins, the Galaxy S21 Ultra noses its style past the OnePlus 9 Pro equally the best Android phone yous can buy. Despite the OnePlus 9 Pro coming closer to Samsung's crown than ever, the S21 Ultra still wins out, notably in the camera and software support department.
| OnePlus ix Pro | Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra | |
| Cost and availability (10 points) | viii | half-dozen |
| Design (ten points) | 8 | 7 |
| Display (15 points) | xiv | 15 |
| Cameras (20 points) | fifteen | 17 |
| Functioning and 5G (twenty points) | fifteen | xvi |
| Battery life and charging (15 points) | xiv | 13 |
| Software and special features (10 points) | 7 | 9 |
| Overall (100 points) | 81 | 83 |
The Galaxy S21 Ultra'southward narrow win shouldn't obscure the fact that the OnePlus 9 Pro remains a nifty phone. And for many people, the S21 Ultra will be the better choice in whatever OnePlus 9 Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 decision. Besides the slightly better cameras, the S21 Ultra offers a brighter, bigger brandish, and it'due south easier to connect to 5G networks on Samsung's telephone. The added year of Android support is likewise ideal if you want to hold onto your telephone longer.
Only powerful performance with its Snapdragon 888 processor and copious amounts of RAM — not to mention impressive battery life and ultra fast charging — brand the OnePlus 9 Pro a very compelling phone. The fact that the cameras are now in the same conversation as some of the best camera phones out there brand a case for OnePlus. But Samsung is still rex for the best Android phone, even if its crown is strongly contested.
We can't wait to meet how this kind of competition will shape up for 2022. Unfortunately neither phone maker looks to be launching another big phone this year. Samsung has all only confirmed the Galaxy Note 21 isn't happening, plus it's rumored that the OnePlus 9T isn't happening either. And then if y'all desire to purchase the best Android phone of 2021, it looks like these are going to be the only 2 contenders. Unless the Google Pixel 6 surprises everyone.
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