Introduction

While it’s all the time nice enjoyable to look at the flagship smartphones and marvel at their tech highlights, the fact is that most individuals will find yourself shopping for a extra reasonably priced midrange machine. It’s the midrangers that transfer quantity in at the moment’s market, and issues can understandably get very aggressive.

That is especially true within the hotly-contested value vary of round €300 to €400 the place the Samsung Galaxy A54 and the Xiaomi Poco F5 reside compete with one another. Both are nice telephones on paper, every with its personal respective highlights. Plus, each gadgets appear to be available throughout most markets worldwide.

And whereas the A54 is the clear winner within the recognition division, at the very least based on our specs pages, there may be much more to this comparability to discover. Do try how their full spec sheets evaluate or examine our editor’s evaluation under.

Size comparability

The two telephones are roughly comparable in measurement, although the Poco F5 clearly has the dimensions benefit over the Galaxy A54. It is rocking a 6.67-inch 20:9 show, in comparison with the Galaxy’s 6.4-inch, 19.5:9 one. Despite that, the Poco F5 is not drastically taller than the Galaxy A54, measuring 161.1 mm, in comparison with 158.2 mm on the Samsung.

The Galaxy A54 is, nevertheless, barely wider and thicker than the Poco F5 – 76.7 mm, in comparison with 75 mm and eight.2mm thickness, in comparison with 7.9 mm, respectively. That’s in addition to the truth that each gadgets are rocking the identical measurement, 5,000 mAh battery packs.

Despite its bigger show, the Poco F5 is noticeably lighter than the Galaxy A54. It weighs in at 181 grams, versus 202 grams on the Samsung. Perhaps a considerable chink of the distinction stems from the truth that the Galaxy A54 has a Gorilla Glass 5 again, which weighs greater than the plastic again panel on the Poco F5.

Speaking of supplies and construct high quality, the Poco F5 additionally has a Gorilla Glass 5 entrance glass, and each gadgets are rocking a plastic center body.

However, the Galaxy A54 has that coveted IP67 score, whereas the Poco is caught with a way more fundamental IP53 score.

Display comparability

As already talked about, the 2 telephones have a notable distinction in show measurement. The Galaxy A54 is extra compact, with a diagonal of 6.4 inches and a 19.5:9 facet ratio. All the whereas, the Poco F5 is rocking a strong 6.67 inches with a 20:9 facet ratio.

Both shows have a FullHD+ decision and look very comparable in particular person by way of sharpness. Both telephones handle to come back very near the 1,000nit mark in our testing by way of most brightness. That makes them equally nice even in shiny outside situations.

Maximum brightness is essential for HDR playback; each telephones have HDR assist on their shows. The Poco F5 does have the Galaxy A54 barely beat on this class because it helps Dolby Vision on prime of the HDR10 and HDR10+ requirements that each telephones cater to.

Samsung has a strong repute in relation to shade accuracy and copy. The A54 doesn’t disappoint on this division, doing notably effectively with the sRGB shade area. The Poco F5 is not far behind by way of accuracy, and it does have the clear good thing about providing a 12-bit panel in comparison with Samsung’s 8-bit one. This means much less shade banding in some demanding pictures.

Both telephones assist a 120Hz most refresh fee and deal with automated refresh fee switching fairly effectively to steadiness smoothness and battery endurance.

Battery life

Both the Galaxy A54 and the Poco F5 are outfitted with hefty 5,000 mAh battery packs. The pair carried out very equally in our proprietary battery endurance check.

There are marginal variations in how the 2 faired in our testing. For occasion, the Galaxy A54 did ever so barely higher within the Wi-Fi internet shopping portion of the check. But actually, it isn’t even price stating. For all intents and functions, the 2 telephones supply similar battery endurance.

Charging pace

While battery endurance could be a wash between the 2 telephones, there’s a clear winner in relation to charging pace. That could be the Xiaomi Poco F5 with its 67W quick charging answer. Meanwhile, the Galaxy A54 is caught with simply 25W of PD+PPS charging.

The distinction in charging fee is obvious. Thirty minutes on the charger brings the Samsung as much as 56%, whereas the Poco F5 finally ends up at 83%.

A full cost takes simply over an hour on the A54 and a bit underneath 50 minutes for the Poco F5.

It can be price noting that the Poco F5 additionally comes with the 67W quick charger bundled, whereas the Galaxy A54 sells with out a charger.

Speaker check

Both the Galaxy A54 and Poco F5 have stereo audio system. The Galaxy makes use of the earpiece as a secondary front-facing channel for a hybrid setup, whereas the Poco has a speaker grill for sound to come back out on the highest of the telephone as effectively, making for a extra balanced sound output.

The Poco F5 additionally has the Galaxy A54 barely beat by way of loudness, managing a VERY GOOD rating in our testing in comparison with Samsung’s GOOD one.

There is not a significant distinction between the 2 telephones by way of precise sound high quality. Both have little distortion within the highs, lack bass and have usually clear mids and vocals. Perhaps the Xiaomi, as soon as once more, has a slight edge.

The Poco F5 has one other edge with its 3.5mm audio jack, which is absent from the Galaxy A54.

Performance

Samsung wager by itself in-house Exynos 1380 chipset for the Galaxy A54. It is a 5nm chip with an octa-core CPU configuration consisting of 4×2.4 GHz Cortex-A78 and 4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A55 cores. The GPU is a Mali-G68 MP5.

The Galaxy A54 begins with a 128GB 6GB RAM base configuration. But it will also be bought with 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 6GB RAM and 256GB 8GB RAM.

It is necessary to notice right here that the Galaxy A54 comes with expandable storage. There is a hybrid microSD card slot, so that you do have to decide on between a second nano SIM card and extra storage, however at the very least the choice is there, which is greater than will be stated for the Poco F5.

That’s about the one edge the Galaxy A54 has on this division, nevertheless, because the Poco F5 is supplied with a noticeably extra highly effective all-around Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 chipset. It is a 4nm half with an octa-core CPU config consisting of 1×2.91 GHz Cortex-X2, 3×2.49 GHz Cortex-A710 and 4×1.8 GHz Cortex-A510 cores. The onboard GPU is an Adreno 725.

The Poco F5 would possibly lack expandable storage, but it surely does include 256GB of UFS 3.1 even in its base variant, which additionally has 8GB of RAM. You can get a 12GB plus 256GB mannequin as effectively for a premium.

Xiaomi

Poco F5

AnTuTu
931,174

Geekbench 6
1,639 single-core

Geekbench 6
4,348 multi-core

As we already talked about, the Poco F5 has noticeably extra uncooked energy than the Galaxy A54. That consists of each CPU and GPU efficiency. Even so, we would not say the Galaxy A54 is strapped for energy. It runs easily with no noticeable hiccups.

Camera comparability

The Galaxy A54 and the Poco F5 have fairly comparable digicam setups in most respects. The Samsung is rocking a 50MP, f/1.8 1/1.56″, 1.0µm main cam with OIS and PDAF. As for the Poco F5, its main cam is a 64MP, f/1.8 unit with 1/2″ measurement, 0.7µm pixels and likewise OIS and PDAF.

Both telephones even have a devoted ultrawide with fastened focus – 12MP on the Samsung and 8MP on the Xiaomi. Both telephones even have a devoted macro cam on the again – 5MP on the Samsung and 2MP on the Xiaomi. As we stated, these are fairly comparable setups.

The Galaxy A54 does supply a superior 32MP selfie, able to capturing 4K video, in comparison with the 16MP, 1080p selfie on the Poco F5. Unfortunately, although, neither selfie cam has autofocus.

Both telephones seize nice daylight photographs with good element and colours.

Samsung Galaxy A54: 0.6x • 1x • 2x • 50MP

More samples and an in depth evaluation will be present in our Galaxy A54 evaluate.

Xiaomi Poco F5: 0.6x • 1x • 2x • 64MP

More samples and an in depth evaluation will be present in our Poco F5 evaluate.

Both additionally supply very competent 2x zoom photographs as a crop from the primary digicam. Daytime video is nice coming from each gadgets as effectively.

Despite the disparity in selfie decision, each telephones supply aggressive selfies too.

Both telephones additionally handle to shine properly in low-light seize, which is spectacular. All in all, neither telephone will disappoint within the digicam division, as each rock strong digicam setups.

Here’s a glimpse of how the Galaxy A54’s major digicam compares in picture high quality to the Poco F5’s in our Image evaluate software.

And this is how the Galaxy A54’s major digicam compares in video high quality to the Poco F5’s in our Video evaluate software.

Verdict

It’s exhausting to crown considered one of these two telephones as being higher than the opposite since they differ notably of their priorities. For occasion, Samsung clearly paid much more consideration to the construct high quality and ingress safety of the Galaxy A54. That is to not say that the Poco F5 is a flimsy machine, removed from it. However, if you’re a bit extra careless in the direction of your telephone, you may want the additional peace of thoughts afforded by Gorilla Glass 5 on each side of the telephone and the IP67 ingress safety provided by the Galaxy.

The Samsung additionally has that expandable storage going for it and arguably a barely extra polished digicam expertise. It’s undoubtedly a greater selfie cam, able to 4K video seize.

On the opposite hand, Xiaomi appears to have targeted extra on delivering higher {hardware} worth for cash with the Poco F5. While not miles higher than the one on the Galaxy, its show presents higher colours and Dolby Vision assist. And it edges out the Galaxy A54 in efficiency by a big margin. Plus, whereas each gadgets are almost similar by way of battery endurance, the additional comfort afforded by the a lot sooner Xiaomi charging is plain.

At the tip of the day, the choice between these two glorious worth midrangers needs to be a private one – relying by yourself priorities and even model choice. We can say with confidence that neither will disappoint, and they’re each extremely beneficial gadgets.