It was the first time that Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and iPhone 13 Pro Max faced each other in a competition of powerful processors: Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 versus Apple A15.
The competition arena was the well-known Geekbench 5 benchmarking platform and Apple’s proprietary chip was the big winner of the competition.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Apple A15 face off in Geekbench 5 tests
Recently launched on the market, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is one of the most powerful Android smartphones of the moment and, therefore, it is natural that the first comparisons with Apple’s almighty iPhone 13 Pro Max begin to emerge.
And it is that the PCMag publication decided to put both terminals face to face to know who would be the winner in a processor war. But first, let’s introduce the contestants and the showdown arena.
The aforementioned publication for a competitor chose the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor and the iPhone 13 Pro Max with the Apple A15 chip at the controls. The selected “arena” was the Geekbench 5 test of the well-known benchmarking platform.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max leaves the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra behind
Now let’s go to the results. In the multi-core test, Samsung’s S22 Ultra competitor scored 3,433 points while the iPhone 13 Pro Max reached 4,647. In the single-core test, the South Korean model reached 1,232 points, with the Apple terminal recording a score of 1735 points. .
Given these results, the top smartphone from the Cupertino company is the big winner, showing significantly better results than Samsung’s premium model.
For many analysts, these results are not surprising. All because Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, compared to its predecessors, revealed only a slight improvement over the previous generation.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 features a slight improvement over its predecessor
More specifically, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, in single-core Geekbench tests, proved to be 13% better than its predecessor and only 9% better in multi-core tests. However, the publication PCMag points out that in certain tasks, Qualcomm’s new processor proved to be 20% more efficient than the previous generation.
In turn, the Apple A15, in a head-to-head with its predecessor A14, showed a significant increase in performance.
It’s worth noting that benchmark scores don’t effectively reflect smartphone performance in everyday use, considered “normal.” However, they provide very useful information for demanding tasks such as image processing and video games.