Anandtech did their usual stellar job of reviewing the new iPhone 12 and 12 Pro. Part of that involves the most detailed technical analysis you’ll see anywhere on the web. But the thing that jumped out to me the most was the inclusion of Apple’s iPhone XS from 2 years ago. It is still ahead of almost all the current Android flagship phones offered today.
Forget about Apple’s new A14 hotness. The A12 from two years ago still beats the best that Android currently has to offer. That’s how far ahead of the Android pack Apple is. If you were wondering why iPhones have superior resale value, this is a big contributing factor. Android phones from 2 years ago are lucky if they’re still getting software updates.
CPU Performance
I got a chuckle out of this quote from Anandtech after they performed their Speedometer 2.0 benchmark test.
Usually at this point we would point out that it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison to other devices in the chart, and that Apple’s Nitro JavaScript engine could simply be much superior to Google’s V8 engine, but the new release of the Apple Silicon Macs where we could finally compare Safari versus Chrome has shown very little performance discrepancy, meaning the performance here is actually due to the CPUs themselves.
Having that in mind, it means that Apple’s performance advantage over Android devices has grown even bigger this generation, with little hope for upcoming Cortex cores to catch up with such a gap. —Anandtech 11/30/2020
CPU Performance
I got a chuckle out of this quote from Anandtech after they performed their Speedometer 2.0 benchmark test.
Usually at this point we would point out that it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison to other devices in the chart, and that Apple’s Nitro JavaScript engine could simply be much superior to Google’s V8 engine, but the new release of the Apple Silicon Macs where we could finally compare Safari versus Chrome has shown very little performance discrepancy, meaning the performance here is actually due to the CPUs themselves.
Having that in mind, it means that Apple’s performance advantage over Android devices has grown even bigger this generation, with little hope for upcoming Cortex cores to catch up with such a gap. —Anandtech 11/30/2020
GPU Performance
The performance gap is similar when you look at the GPU side of things. The only notable exception is the Huawei Mate 40 Pro. Huawei is using it’s own Kirin 9000 chipset which is a generation ahead of the Snapdragon 865 which most of the Android flagships use. Huawei is using a 5nm design vs the 7nm in the Snapdragon. But even this updated chipset is still beat by last year’s iPhone 11 let alone the current 12.
The performance gap is similar when you look at the GPU side of things. The only notable exception is the Huawei Mate 40 Pro. Huawei is using it’s own Kirin 9000 chipset which is a generation ahead of the Snapdragon 865 which most of the Android flagships use. Huawei is using a 5nm design vs the 7nm in the Snapdragon. But even this updated chipset is still beat by last year’s iPhone 11 let alone the current 12.
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