IPhone 12 May Be Even More Powerful Than 2021 Flagship Android Phones
Those familiar with Qualcomm chipsets would know that the company, each year in December, launches its flagship processor for smartphones that will be used by OEMs next year. Also this year, the company introduced the flagship Snapdragon 888 on-chip system. This is supposed to power all premium Android phones in 2021. But SoC performance might not be as good as Apple’s processor used in iPhones this year.
Anandtech recently received benchmarks from Qualcomm, which were compared to known scores of Apple’s 14 bionic chipsets and A13 from last year.
In the Geekbench 5, a popular processor benchmarking tool, while the Apple iPhone 12 Pro (A14 Bionic) scored 1603 in single-core performance, the Snapdragon 888 scored lower than 1135. It was even less than iPhone 11 Pro (A13) score 1331. In terms of multi-core performance, iPhone 12 Pro again scored higher at 4187 compared to Snapdragon 888’s 3794.
The website also tested the performance of the GPU using the results of the GFX bench. According to the results, the iPhone 12 Pro recorded 102.2 peak frames per second. The Snapdragon 888 hit 86 peak frames per second. That’s even lower than the scores for the iPhone 12, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11, and even iPhone SE (2020).
However, on the brightest side, in the Geekbench and GFX Bench results, the Snapdragon 888 performed better than some of the current high-end Android flagship phones such as the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, Galaxy S20 Ultra, Huawei 40 Pro and the Asus ROG phone. 3.
It is worth adding that Snapdragon 888 and Apple A14 Bionic are made using a 5nm process. Qualcomm’s chipset also uses Cortex X-1 as part of its big-little design, similar to that used in A14 Bionic.
