How much faster are new cellphones vs Galaxy Prevail LTE

Without trying one out, I’d like to know how much faster one of the better phones (perhaps a new Galaxy S7) will perform relative to my Galaxy Prevail LTE. Not talking internet speed limitations, but application performance. I’m looking for razor quick performance when navigating apps even if I have many apps going at once.

My phone seems ok until I add a certain amount of apps. I’d like it to never become sluggish especially when switching between apps, and I know that I can buy a phone with a lot more memory on-board to handle that to a great extent, but I’d also like to know how much faster a newer processor and other hardware advancements would be (from an human-observational standpoint, not gigaherz measurements).

Thanks!

http://www.androidbenchmark.net/passmark_chart.html

G930A , the S7, benchmarked at 9.3K
G360, representing prevail, benchmark at 2.3k

So … 3.something times faster, if your usage is like passmark’s.
They seem to have realised that 4 core’s will do. 8 cores affect each other too much , and you may as well devote the power and silicon to getting 4 cores running faster.

Given the complexity of hardware component configurations (e.g. the cpu must work together with other components which can slow the whole process down), I wonder if 3x cpu speeds result in 3x actual user interface speeds

The benchmarks aren’t just CPU speed.

PassMark is synthetic and measures artificial tasks like CPU chores, disk writes/reads, memory, and graphics: PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile - Android and Apple iPhone Benchmark Software

PCMark for Android is a bit more representative, measuring real-world tasks like web browsing or video or text editing: http://d1ejs5fxm96rib.cloudfront.net/pcmark-android-technical-guide.pdf

But that still only goes so far. Go to a cell phone store and play with them yourself to feel the difference. As someone who just upgraded from a LG G2 (3900) to a Nexus 6p (6900), it definitely feels faster but is still what I would call “laggy”, especially with multiple apps open in the background – no matter what Google claims about multitasking, even in the latest Android.