Reviewers have decided that iPhone 12 is unmatched in performance
In early reviews of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, reporters drew attention to the outstanding performance of the A14 Bionic SoC. It became faster, although in real work it is impossible to notice the difference in comparison with the A13 chip. Only test packages can show an increase.
Reporter Patrick Holland of CNet reported that in 3DMark and Geekbench benchmarks, the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro had the highest scores of any phone he had ever tested. The superiority over the ASUS ROG phone 3 is actually tangible – both in graphics and in single-threaded and multi-threaded modes:
Measurements by Engadget employee Chris Velazco showed roughly the same results. The ratings of this resource are interesting in comparison with other flagships – Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and Pixel 5, which remain behind even compared to last year’s iPhone 11 Pro.
The journalist also used the BrightRidge technical demo to measure graphics performance. It hasn’t been updated in two years and therefore hasn’t been optimized for the latest iPhones in any way. At maximum use of all imaginable options, the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro averaged about 25 frames per second. Last year’s iPhone 11 Pro averaged 20fps. In turn, the iPhone 8 Plus showed about 13 frames / s.
Meanwhile, the iPhone 12 Pro, in addition to a more powerful chip, is equipped with 6 GB of RAM versus 4 GB in a regular iPhone 12. In theory, this gives an advantage in multitasking, but in practice, it is impossible to notice the differences in the operation of the two phones.
Recall: the heart of the new Apple smartphones is the 5-nm single-chip Apple A14 Bionic system (11.8 billion transistors, 40% more than in A13), produced at TSMC facilities. The processor is still 6-core, but the number of neuro block cores for tasks related to AI, as well as opportunities in the field of AR, has doubled to 16. Apple calls the novelty the world’s first 5nm processor. Compared to the A13, the new chip offers a 50% increase in CPU and GPU performance.
