Apple’s A14 outperforms the new Snapdragon 888 chip coming to future Android phones

Qualcomm has today shared the benchmark results of the Snapdragon 888 SoC to be used on Android mobile phones coming out in 2021 and is unable to keep pace with the A14 chip of the iPhone 12 models or the A13 of the iPhone 11 .

AnandTech compared Qualcomm benchmarks to benchmarks from Apple devices, with the iPhone winning the Geekbench 5 and GFXBench tests.

The Snapdragon 888 chip scored a single-core score of 1,135 and a multi-core score of 3,794, while the iPhone 12 Pro with A14 chip scored a single-core score of 1,603 and a multi-core score. core of 4,187.

In the GFXBench test, which measures GPU performance, Samsung scored 86 (in frames per second), compared to the 102.24 of the 12iphone 12 Pro‌. Continued performance is unknown so far and will depend on the power consumption of the chip, however AnandTech he believes the Snapdragon 888 could ultimately be won over to the “iPhone” if power consumption is competitive.

While the Snapdragon 888 doesn’t seem to match the maximum performance scores of the A13 or A14 SoCs used in Apple iPhones, sustained performance will depend heavily on the chip’s power consumption. If it produces between 4 and 4.5 W, most Android mobile phones by 2021 will likely be able to maintain that maximum performance figure and allow Qualcomm to regain Apple’s mobile performance crown. Otherwise, if the chip is to accelerate significantly, it is likely that the 888 will fail to recover the crown. But even if that’s the case, for Android users it shouldn’t matter too much: the generational leap over 2020 phones would still be huge, and by far one of the biggest GPU performance jumps that Qualcomm has succeeded so far.

The Snapdragon 888 chip does not perform well on the level of Apple’s A13 or A14 chips, but it is a significant improvement over previous-generation Snapdragon chips used in current Android smartphones. CPU performance increases by 25% and GPU performance increases by 35%.

AnandTech states that because these parameters were provided by Qualcomm and not obtained independently, we must trust that Qualcomm’s numbers are accurate, but the site expects the figures to be “accurate and reproduced on commercial devices.”