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With the arrival of smartphones equipped with the new flagship system-on-chip (SoC) for Android, such as Snapdragon 8Gx Gen1, Dimensity 9000, and Exynos 2200, the performance comparison with the iPhone 13 series is drawing attention.
Can these new Android SoCs beat Apple’s A15 Bionic? Notebookcheck is considering it.
The manufacturing process is better for SoC for Android
When it comes to the semiconductor manufacturing process that is the basis for determining SoC performance and power consumption, the later SoC for Android is more advantageous.
The A15 Bionic is manufactured on TSMC’s 5nm process, while Snapdragon and Exynos are manufactured on Samsung’s 4nm process and Dimensity is manufactured on TSMC’s 4nm process.
Generally, the more miniaturized the process, the more advantageous it is in terms of performance and power consumption.
Is the CPU performance better on the A15 Bionic?
On the other hand, Notebookcheck thinks that the A15 Bionic will be better in terms of CPU performance.
About the A15 Bionic Apple claims it’s 50% faster than its competitors, and Anandtech also says it’s 62% faster than the Snapdragon 888.
On the other hand, Arm says that the CPU core of the Armv9 architecture installed in the new flagship SoC for Android is “30% or more performance improvement” compared to the Armv8 architecture such as Snapdragon 888.
MediaTek also gave a 35% performance improvement over the Snapdragon 888 at the announcement of the Dimensity 9000.
Based on this information, Notebookcheck states that SoCs for Android will not be able to beat the A15 Bionic in terms of CPU performance.
While SoC for Android uses a general-purpose CPU core, Apple has invested a huge amount of R & D expenses to develop its own CPU core, and it is thought that the difference has come out.
Qualcomm is aware of this and has announced that it will acquire Nuvia, a developer of high-speed CPU cores, and release a product that can compete with Apple’s M1 / M2 chips.
Is GPU performance better than A15 Bionic?
Notebookcheck believes that the A15 Bionic is faster, as is the GPU, which is an important factor that determines the performance of smartphones as well as the CPU.
Even the Exynos 2200 with a high-speed GPU co-developed with AMD is said to be inferior to the A15 Bionic, and the rationale is that Snapdragon and Dimensity will be inferior to the Exynos 2200.
Is the iPhone more advantageous from the current information?
The actual performance comparison will be after the release of smartphones equipped with all SoCs, but from the current information, it seems that the iPhone is more advantageous than Android in the performance competition of the flagship smartphone in 2022.
It is said that smartphones equipped with Snapdragon 8Gx Gen1 will appear in December this year, and smartphones equipped with Dimensity 9000 and Exynos 2200 will appear in February 2022.
Source: Notebookcheck, Anandtech
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