**Samsung DeX on Windows: A Gaming and Productivity Powerhouse**

In recent years, Samsung has been working on enhancing its DeX (Desktop Experience) feature for its Android devices. The latest iteration of this technology allows users to transform their smartphones into powerful desktop-like machines. In this article, we'll explore the capabilities of Samsung DeX on Windows, including its gaming and productivity features.

**Performance Comparison**

When compared to other Samsung phones, such as the Note 10 Plus, Samsung DeX on Windows performs admirably. According to our tests, it scores around 198 points out of 300 in the Cinebench multithreading test, which is very close to what the Note 10 Plus achieves. This suggests that DeX on Windows offers similar performance to its mobile counterparts. However, when running a few more tests, we noticed some inconsistencies in performance, with choppiness observed during video playback at certain frame rates. These issues could be due to the limitations of the Dex app itself or the frame rate rendering capabilities.

**Drag and Drop Files between Operating Systems**

One of the most exciting features of Samsung DeX on Windows is its ability to drag and drop files between different operating systems. This means that users can easily transfer files from their desktop in Windows to their smartphone, allowing for seamless workflow between devices. To test this feature, we dragged a few video files onto our Dex window, which successfully copied them over to the phone.

**Video Playback**

To test the video playback capabilities of DeX on Windows, we loaded up a 4K 30fps MP4 file using the built-in video player. Unfortunately, we noticed some choppiness during playback, even at lower frame rates like 1080p 60fps. This could be due to the limitations of the Dex app itself or the processing power of the device running the application.

**Native Android Gaming**

While DeX on Windows excels in terms of productivity, its gaming capabilities are somewhat limited. We tested Real Racing 3, a popular racing game that requires precise controls. The game performed well with windowed mode and controller support, but we encountered some latency issues while playing at higher frame rates.

**Controller Support**

The lack of controller support for certain games is a notable limitation of DeX on Windows. This can make it challenging to play games like Hearthstone or other touchscreen-based titles. However, the device's native controller support for Android games is a welcome feature.

**Touchscreen Games**

We tested one more game, Fortnite, which supports native controllers on Android. While we couldn't achieve 60fps performance due to the limitations of DeX on Windows, the gameplay was smooth and enjoyable at lower frame rates.

**Emulation**

For those interested in exploring additional gaming options, emulation is also possible with Samsung DeX on Windows. We used the Dolphin Emulator to play an GameCube title, Timesplitters, which worked surprisingly well despite the limitations of DeX on Windows.

**Multitasking and Productivity**

One of the most significant advantages of Samsung DeX on Windows is its ability to multitask. Users can continue working on their phone while using Dex, receiving notifications and calls with seamless integration into the device's interface. This feature makes it easy to stay productive and responsive to work demands.

**Conclusion**

Samsung DeX on Windows offers a robust set of features for gaming and productivity enthusiasts. While some limitations exist, such as frame rate rendering capabilities and controller support, the device remains an excellent option for those looking to transform their smartphones into powerful desktop-like machines.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys the CTA Prime back here again today we're gonna be taking a look at decks on Windows now this feature was recently released with the brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 plus but hopefully in the future it does come to the older note phones and the Galaxy S series that support decks already and by the way this will also work on OSX so if you have a Mac book or an iMac you can get this up and running as long as you have a note 10 or a note 10 plus now I'm going to be running this on a relatively low powered Lenovo laptop this is a dual-core laptop it costs $200 new and it really can't even get out of its own way I'll be using the note 10 plus for this and if you're a regular viewer of the channel you know I personally really like samsung decks I've recently done a couple videos on it with the galaxy s 10 and it's a really awesome feature of these new Samsung phones the way I usually do it is just plug in a USB type-c to HDMI adapter like this one here and then I'll plug this into my TV or monitor and it basically turns my samsung galaxy phone into an Android desktop but I'm not always carrying a monitor or a television with me but I usually always have a low powered laptop on hand somewhere in case I need to get something done so in order to get this up and running you're obviously going to need some type of Windows PC be it a laptop desktop or a computer running OSX you'll also have to download the new Samsung Dex app and you'll need a USB type-c cable so I've got the app running I've plugged in my note 10 plus and we'll just wait a second and it'll boot right into the Dex desktop so whether you're running a game or editing a word document index it's using the CPU inside of the phone the computer CPU and RAM is pretty much untouched here except for running the Dex app in the background the Wi-Fi and everything is still coming from the phone but we can use the keyboard and trackpad or keyboard and mouse depending on how you have this set up to control Dex inside of windows and yes you can switch between Dex and windows at any time it automatically starts in full-screen mode but you can use this in windowed mode if you want to so here we have Dex running on top of the Windows desktop and unfortunately Dex will not use the snap feature built into Windows 10 hopefully they fix this in the future because I'd actually like to have this snapped over to the right-hand side so in this video I'm just going to test out few things here with Dex on Windows we'll get into a little bit of native Android gameplay I'll test out some video playback run some benchmarks and by the end I'll give you my final thoughts of running decks and windows so the one major downside that I've already noticed to running decks on Windows or decks through USB type-c to HDMI is the framerate when you're using an HDMI adapter with the s 10 or the note 10 or no 10 plus you'll get 60fps I'm running this from the Samsung decks app in Windows and I'm at 30 and you'll see we have some drops all the time it's running in OpenGL mode now I'm not exactly sure how accurate this is I am using afterburner to check the FPS and I've really never had trouble in the past if it's using OpenGL this is pretty accurate so the very first thing I wanted to see was how much more powerful this phone is than the laptop Irene a quick Geekbench on the samsung galaxy note 10.1 10440 on the laptop I'm running 26:36 in 5018 for the multi-core score keep in mind this is definitely gonna vary between machine to machine and this laptop was only $200 the note 10 plus is much more expensive than this I expected it would be - in single and multi this was just a quick little test that I wanted to run and any further benchmarks that I run inside of decks on the note 10 plus will not be compared with this PC because it's gonna vary between PC to PC so what about decks performance versus the built-in screen without running decks whatsoever I ran a couple benchmarks without decks running and with decks and we're gonna check those out now first up we have 3d mark for the opengl score we squared a 5555 vulcan 4826 with just the built-in screen on the note 10 plus running the same exact benchmark opengl 5585 vulcan 4835 so his GPU performance ghost there's really no difference between decks and the built-in screen next up we have an 2:2 and I ran this index three hundred sixty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety eight three hundred sixty eight thousand four hundred and twenty-two we did score a little higher with the built-in screen but if I ran this a few more times I think we can match or even beat that score inside a Dex so as a whole you're still getting the same performance that the note 10 or the note 10 plus can put out index mode another cool feature that was added to dex on windows is the ability to drag and drop files between each operating system so here I have a couple video files on my Windows desktop and I'm just going to drag them right to my Dex window it's now gonna copy them right over to the note and this will work with any kind of file so if you've been working on let's say some Word documents in Windows so you can just drag and drop them right over here to text and start editing them in Microsoft Word for Android so I now have my files transferred over to my note and since we're here let's go to my files these were two videos so we'll go to videos since they're video files let's go ahead and test them out this one is 4k 30fps mp4 we'll just use the built-in video player I do notice a little bit of choppiness and this could be due to the frame rate that decks on Windows is running out because on the phone itself these run flawlessly so that's 30 FPS 4k will try 1080p 60fps and even in the same spot I do notice some choppiness even at 1080p so I'm gonna chalk this up to the Dex app itself in Windows so now it's time to move on to a little bit of native Android gaming as you can see here I have my xbox one controller connected over bluetooth that works really well with these Samsung phones and Dex another thing you might want to do is go into Dex labs and make sure you have force apps to resize now some apps just won't do it we'll go with Real Racing 3 as you can see it goes windowed mode and will have to restart if we want to go to fullscreen performance really isn't that bad and controller latency can be dealt with there is a little bit of latency here and running over Bluetooth plus we're kind of mirroring this Dex into Windows in my experience gaming on Dex will be much better using just USB type-c to HDMI but in a pinch this can work now that was a game that can easily be played with the controller what about touchscreen games well a lot of them that require let's say multiple touches aren't going to work well but let's say you want to play hearthstone it's going to function perfectly index mode a lot of the smaller multi-touch games just aren't going to work so well because you need to use the mouse you only have one point of touch but something like hearthstone is perfectly playable so we'll test out one more game here and I wish I could do pup G mobile but unfortunately the developers haven't had a true controller support you could always use a controller mapper like octopus if you really wanted to but we'll just go with fortnight because it does support native controllers on Android so here we are 30 FPS epoch I'll go to settings unfortunately I can't switch it to 60 for some reason but I have the resolution at a hundred percent and the FPS is on screen so it's not ideal playing it like this there's still a little bit of latency it's actually not as bad as I expected it would be with this controller though and 30fps I mean it still looks good and functions properly you could play fortnight like this if you really wanted to emulation on decks is also possible I'll just go with the dolphin emulator will start timesplitters - this is the GameCube emulator works really well I have the FPS listed up here but remember Dex is only running at 30fps because we're using Dex in Windows so overall Dex on Windows performs much better than I thought it would and by the way yes you can still use your phone while you're using Dex on Windows you'll still receive your notifications and calls plus they'll show up in Dex other than the 30fps limit that I'm having on this laptop here performance is great but I'd rather use an HDMI adapter with the note 10 or the s10 using Dex with one of these it's just a much better experience you do get a cleaner picture and a higher frame rate so that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching I do have a couple more videos on the note 10 plus coming up very shortly and if you want to see anything else running on the 10 plus or if you have any questions about this video let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watching youwhat's going on guys the CTA Prime back here again today we're gonna be taking a look at decks on Windows now this feature was recently released with the brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 plus but hopefully in the future it does come to the older note phones and the Galaxy S series that support decks already and by the way this will also work on OSX so if you have a Mac book or an iMac you can get this up and running as long as you have a note 10 or a note 10 plus now I'm going to be running this on a relatively low powered Lenovo laptop this is a dual-core laptop it costs $200 new and it really can't even get out of its own way I'll be using the note 10 plus for this and if you're a regular viewer of the channel you know I personally really like samsung decks I've recently done a couple videos on it with the galaxy s 10 and it's a really awesome feature of these new Samsung phones the way I usually do it is just plug in a USB type-c to HDMI adapter like this one here and then I'll plug this into my TV or monitor and it basically turns my samsung galaxy phone into an Android desktop but I'm not always carrying a monitor or a television with me but I usually always have a low powered laptop on hand somewhere in case I need to get something done so in order to get this up and running you're obviously going to need some type of Windows PC be it a laptop desktop or a computer running OSX you'll also have to download the new Samsung Dex app and you'll need a USB type-c cable so I've got the app running I've plugged in my note 10 plus and we'll just wait a second and it'll boot right into the Dex desktop so whether you're running a game or editing a word document index it's using the CPU inside of the phone the computer CPU and RAM is pretty much untouched here except for running the Dex app in the background the Wi-Fi and everything is still coming from the phone but we can use the keyboard and trackpad or keyboard and mouse depending on how you have this set up to control Dex inside of windows and yes you can switch between Dex and windows at any time it automatically starts in full-screen mode but you can use this in windowed mode if you want to so here we have Dex running on top of the Windows desktop and unfortunately Dex will not use the snap feature built into Windows 10 hopefully they fix this in the future because I'd actually like to have this snapped over to the right-hand side so in this video I'm just going to test out few things here with Dex on Windows we'll get into a little bit of native Android gameplay I'll test out some video playback run some benchmarks and by the end I'll give you my final thoughts of running decks and windows so the one major downside that I've already noticed to running decks on Windows or decks through USB type-c to HDMI is the framerate when you're using an HDMI adapter with the s 10 or the note 10 or no 10 plus you'll get 60fps I'm running this from the Samsung decks app in Windows and I'm at 30 and you'll see we have some drops all the time it's running in OpenGL mode now I'm not exactly sure how accurate this is I am using afterburner to check the FPS and I've really never had trouble in the past if it's using OpenGL this is pretty accurate so the very first thing I wanted to see was how much more powerful this phone is than the laptop Irene a quick Geekbench on the samsung galaxy note 10.1 10440 on the laptop I'm running 26:36 in 5018 for the multi-core score keep in mind this is definitely gonna vary between machine to machine and this laptop was only $200 the note 10 plus is much more expensive than this I expected it would be - in single and multi this was just a quick little test that I wanted to run and any further benchmarks that I run inside of decks on the note 10 plus will not be compared with this PC because it's gonna vary between PC to PC so what about decks performance versus the built-in screen without running decks whatsoever I ran a couple benchmarks without decks running and with decks and we're gonna check those out now first up we have 3d mark for the opengl score we squared a 5555 vulcan 4826 with just the built-in screen on the note 10 plus running the same exact benchmark opengl 5585 vulcan 4835 so his GPU performance ghost there's really no difference between decks and the built-in screen next up we have an 2:2 and I ran this index three hundred sixty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety eight three hundred sixty eight thousand four hundred and twenty-two we did score a little higher with the built-in screen but if I ran this a few more times I think we can match or even beat that score inside a Dex so as a whole you're still getting the same performance that the note 10 or the note 10 plus can put out index mode another cool feature that was added to dex on windows is the ability to drag and drop files between each operating system so here I have a couple video files on my Windows desktop and I'm just going to drag them right to my Dex window it's now gonna copy them right over to the note and this will work with any kind of file so if you've been working on let's say some Word documents in Windows so you can just drag and drop them right over here to text and start editing them in Microsoft Word for Android so I now have my files transferred over to my note and since we're here let's go to my files these were two videos so we'll go to videos since they're video files let's go ahead and test them out this one is 4k 30fps mp4 we'll just use the built-in video player I do notice a little bit of choppiness and this could be due to the frame rate that decks on Windows is running out because on the phone itself these run flawlessly so that's 30 FPS 4k will try 1080p 60fps and even in the same spot I do notice some choppiness even at 1080p so I'm gonna chalk this up to the Dex app itself in Windows so now it's time to move on to a little bit of native Android gaming as you can see here I have my xbox one controller connected over bluetooth that works really well with these Samsung phones and Dex another thing you might want to do is go into Dex labs and make sure you have force apps to resize now some apps just won't do it we'll go with Real Racing 3 as you can see it goes windowed mode and will have to restart if we want to go to fullscreen performance really isn't that bad and controller latency can be dealt with there is a little bit of latency here and running over Bluetooth plus we're kind of mirroring this Dex into Windows in my experience gaming on Dex will be much better using just USB type-c to HDMI but in a pinch this can work now that was a game that can easily be played with the controller what about touchscreen games well a lot of them that require let's say multiple touches aren't going to work well but let's say you want to play hearthstone it's going to function perfectly index mode a lot of the smaller multi-touch games just aren't going to work so well because you need to use the mouse you only have one point of touch but something like hearthstone is perfectly playable so we'll test out one more game here and I wish I could do pup G mobile but unfortunately the developers haven't had a true controller support you could always use a controller mapper like octopus if you really wanted to but we'll just go with fortnight because it does support native controllers on Android so here we are 30 FPS epoch I'll go to settings unfortunately I can't switch it to 60 for some reason but I have the resolution at a hundred percent and the FPS is on screen so it's not ideal playing it like this there's still a little bit of latency it's actually not as bad as I expected it would be with this controller though and 30fps I mean it still looks good and functions properly you could play fortnight like this if you really wanted to emulation on decks is also possible I'll just go with the dolphin emulator will start timesplitters - this is the GameCube emulator works really well I have the FPS listed up here but remember Dex is only running at 30fps because we're using Dex in Windows so overall Dex on Windows performs much better than I thought it would and by the way yes you can still use your phone while you're using Dex on Windows you'll still receive your notifications and calls plus they'll show up in Dex other than the 30fps limit that I'm having on this laptop here performance is great but I'd rather use an HDMI adapter with the note 10 or the s10 using Dex with one of these it's just a much better experience you do get a cleaner picture and a higher frame rate so that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching I do have a couple more videos on the note 10 plus coming up very shortly and if you want to see anything else running on the 10 plus or if you have any questions about this video let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watching you\n"