Apple launched the world’s first 5nm course of with their new A14 chip earlier this week. The theme of the occasion was “Hello, Velocity” and evidently, you’d count on this cutting-edge know-how on the newer iPhone 12 collection to not simply go away its rivals within the mud, but in addition show to be a leap over the last-gen A13. Curiously sufficient, a screenshot floating on the net suggests in any other case. 

The mentioned screenshot options the alleged AnTuTu benchmarking scores for the brand new iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Professional. The usual iPhone 12, operating on the brand new A14 Bionic and iOS 14.1, baggage 564,899 factors.

Whereas the Professional mannequin manages a rating of 572,133. To place that in perspective, final yr’s iPhone 11 maxed out at 491,792 and the iPhone 11 Professional at 516,635.

So we’re taking a look at roughly an 11-12% enchancment in efficiency. That’s removed from ground-breaking. Even the A13 chipset from the iPhone 11 collection noticed twice as a lot improve in uncooked figures over the A12. The iPhone 12 mini or the professional max weren’t benchmarked however it did not matter because the gadgets pack the identical chipset.

Within the Android world (barring that cross-platform benchmarking isn’t at all times very dependable), flagships powered by the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 865+ (7nm) chipsets outstrip the 2 iPhones, at the least on paper. The Asus ROG Telephone three ranks on high with a complete rating of 642,671. Xiaomi Mi 10 Extremely, sitting on the second spot, additionally hovers near that 640okay+ quantity. The identical goes for the Oppo Discover X2 Professional at 610,961. The highest-ranking Android outperforms the iPhone 12 Professional by simply half some extent shy of 20%.

Artificial benchmarking scores don’t inform your complete story although. These telephones run totally different working programs and Apple’s optimized software program wouldn’t permit for a efficiency discrepancy in the actual world.

That being mentioned, for tech fanatics these metrics matter. Plus, it could have been fascinating to see the A14 and its 5nm fabrication course of high the charts — or on the very least, a big leap over the past technology of iPhones.