Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 released an unexpected early look at its benchmark tests and are already trashed by iPhone 12's A14 Bionic Chip and iPhone 11's A13, only ranking third alongside both Apple SoC processors. The flagship Android SoC ARM-based will see its initial release in 2021 with a new smartphone, but already faces a massive threat from Apple.
The popular smartphone processor and chip developer, Qualcomm, has shared a projection of Snapdragon 888's performance, which users could expect to see on the flagship Android releases of 2021. The new Qualcomm chip would be used for the top tiers of smartphone manufacturer's devices, competing with each other and another rival.
Apple has released the A14 Bionic Chip to the four-variant iPhone 12 earlier last October in the "Hi, Speed" virtual event and earlier in September with the fourth-generation iPad Air that sports the new edged design. The 2020 chip's match-up is already good enough for the Snapdragon 888 as its rival in the following year.
According to AnandTech, all of Apple's previous two releases and generations of the A chip, the A13, and A14, present a better score on various benchmark tests against the 2021 chip from Qualcomm. The tests were performed with the projections of specs that smartphone companies would combine with the Snapdragon 888.
Since Snapdragon 888 equipped smartphones are yet to release in the following year, these results are merely projections and estimates of the new SoC chip from Qualcomm. Results would still change once actual devices already carry the new chip and would undergo the benchmark tests alongside Apple's A chips.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888: Benchmark Results
According to XDA Developers, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 has undergone the Geekbench 5.0, GFXBench, and MLPerf tests which present different performance elements of the new smartphone ARM chip. Impressively, the Snapdragon 888 has shown significant changes compared to previous flagship chips of the company.
The Geekbench 5.0 tests Snapdragon 888's central processing unit (CPU) performance, making this one of the top tests to consider for new chips. The significant 22.17 percent (single-core) and 9.97 percent (multi-core) boost in performance compared to the Snapdragon 865, soon promising a projected 3 or more GHz clock speeds.
GFXBench presents the graphics benchmark performances of the ARM-based SoC from Qualcomm. The results have shown satisfactory results with an average rate of 169 frames per second (fps), with 34.13 percent and 83.7 percent higher than its predecessors the 865 and 855.
On the other hand, MLPerf tests the AI performance of smartphones and their processors, with Snapdragon showing a massive improvement and change from its predecessors. Snapdragon 888 has resulted in 26 TOPS in the test, compared to its previous 15 TOPS from Snapdragon 865.
With the three impressive scores from different aspects of the chip's new performance, Snapdragon 888 would deliver new dawn for Android smartphones in the following year. A14 Bionic chip versus the Snapdragon 888 actual faceoff would have to wait for 2021.
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Written by Isaiah Alonzo
