The Galaxy S23 Ultra nonetheless struggles to beat the iPhone—from 2020

Samsung’s latest telephone has arrived and it’s already the most effective telephones of the 12 months. Along with a 200MP principal digital camera, 100X zoom, and an enormous 6.8-inch display, it’s additionally received a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy which has the next CPU clock pace (3.36GHz vs 3.2GHz) and GPU clock pace (719MHz vs 680MHz) than the usual chip, together with 12GB of RAM. That means it must be the quickest Android telephone ever.

But that doesn’t imply it’s the quickest telephone ever. Apple’s chips have traditionally dealt with the most recent Snapdragon chips with ease, however with a comparatively small pace bump from the A15 to the A16, it appeared doable, even possible, that Qualcomm would lastly catch as much as Apple’s latest iPhone chips.

Not so. In benchmarks recorded by our colleagues at TechAdvisor, the Galaxy S23 Ultra will get soundly crushed by the A16 within the iPhone 14 Pro and the A15 within the iPhone 13 Pro, and might’t even sustain with the iPhone 12’s A14 chip in Geekbench’s single-core take a look at. The S23 fares higher within the multi-core assessments, nevertheless it additionally has extra cores and RAM and nonetheless barely beats final 12 months’s chip.

For specifics, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has an 8-core CPU whereas the A16 has a 6-core design. On the graphics aspect, Apple makes use of a 5-core GPU and the Snapdragon has an Adreno 740 GPU. As you may see within the Wild Life benchmark above, the S23 Ultra actually shines with regards to graphics, truly besting the A16 in 3D Mark’s Wild Life Extreme Unlimited take a look at, which can be nice for players.

It additionally reveals how Qualcomm has prioritized graphics enhancements with the Gen 2 chip. In the identical take a look at with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, the Wild Life Extreme Unlimited benchmark recorded 2577, making the brand new chip greater than 40 % quicker. Meanwhile, the A16 was a considerably minor improve, with beneficial properties of roughly 10 % over the A15. While Apple has made main beneficial properties with the GPUs in its Max and Ultra Mac chips, iPhone graphics have been considerably stagnant.

But with regards to on a regular basis efficiency, the S23 nonetheless lags behind the iPhone—and the hole is prone to develop this 12 months. While leaked Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 benchmarks present scores of 1930 (single-core) and 6236 (multi-core), each of which beat the A16, Apple is prone to ship an enormous leap in efficiency with its 3nm A17 chip when it launches the iPhone 15 handsets. But at the least S24 Ultra consumers may have a telephone that beats the iPhone 13.