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iPhone xiii benchmarks — Apple but blew away Android phones

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All four of our iPhone 13 reviews are in, every bit are our benchmark results from testing. Apple tree promised gains with the new A15 Bionic chip, and while it's an iterative upgrade over last year'south A14 Bionic in about respects, information technology crushes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 that powers several of the best Android phones.

From synthetic benchmarks to real-earth testing, the iPhone thirteen series (especially the Pro models) pulled even further alee from the all-time chips Apple tree'south competitors apply. In some cases, the gap is incredibly wide. Qualcomm has its work cut out for it with the next-generation 800-series Snapdragon, not to mention the Tensor chip Google is working on to power the Pixel half-dozen.

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Apple fifty-fifty said that the A15 Bionic'due south GPU in the Pro models would be l% faster than the competition. (The best rival graphics engine right at present is the Adreno 660 in the Snapdragon 888.) In our testing, that proved true in many cases. The A15's operation hike over iPhone 12 phones is middling, but Apple upgraded the Neural Engine on its chipset this year. This has allowed for the new Cinematic style and Photographic Styles, which heavily leverage AI to do their affair.

Measuring a phone's performance goes beyond raw numbers. It's more about what the phone can do in a real-world setting, and in that regard, the iPhone 13 certainly delivers. Only those raw numbers exercise tell an important story, so here's how the iPhone 13 stacks upwards to what's already out there, for both the Pro, standard and mini models.

iPhone 13: Geekbench results

Geekbench 5 measures the CPU'southward overall performance, broken out into single- and multi-cadre results.

Geekbench 5

	Processor	Single core	Multicore
iPhone 13 Pro	A15 Bionic	1733	4718
iPhone xiii	A15 Bionic	1688	4436
iPhone 12 Pro	A14 Bionic	1595	3880
iPhone 12	A14 Bionic	1593	3859
Milky way S21 Ultra	Snapdragon 888	1123	3440
Galaxy S21	Snapdragon 888	1048	3302
Galaxy Z Fold 3	Snapdragon 888	1107	3418
OnePlus 9 Pro	Snapdragon 888	1126	3685
Asus ROG Phone v	Snapdragon 888	1127	3672
Pixel 5	Snapdragon 765G	596	1617

Geekbench 5 scores are arbitrary in a vacuum, but they aid mensurate a device'southward performance in context to other devices — even if you lot go slightly different scores every time you run the test.

Every bit y'all can see, the iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini models are quite a ways ahead of the Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 765G. More than a chiliad points separates the iPhone xiii Pro from the 2 most powerful Android phones we've ever tested, the OnePlus 9 Pro and Asus ROG Telephone five. That'southward non to mention that the new iPhones pull well ahead of the Milky way S21, Milky way S21 Ultra and Galaxy Z Fold 3, the best that Samsung has to offer.

And nosotros'll simply skip over that delta betwixt the iPhone 13 and the Pixel v. Allow'south hope the Pixel vi helps Google take hold of upwards a bit.

iPhone 13: Graphics benchmarks

A lot of people play games on their phones, with the iPhones leading the charge. For the following criterion, we use 3DMark's Wild Life Unlimited test, which produces a score and boilerplate frames per 2d. It'due south meant to provide a realistic impression of a phone'southward gaming performance.

The A15 Bionic pushes the boundaries on mobile gaming, as you'll see in the results below.

3DMark Wild Life Unlimited

	Processor	Score	Frames per second
iPhone 13 Pro	A15 Bionic	11,693	70
iPhone 13	A15 Bionic	9331	56
iPhone 12 Pro	A14 Bionic	8619	51
iPhone 12	A14 Bionic	8555	51
Galaxy S21 Ultra	Snapdragon 888	5739	34
Galaxy S21	Snapdragon 888	5805	35
Milky way Z Fold 3	Snapdragon 888	5622	34
OnePlus 9 Pro	Snapdragon 888	5755	35
Asus ROG Phone 5	Snapdragon 888	5806	35
Pixel 5	Snapdragon 765G	1160	vii

Like Geekbench, the Wild Life Unlimited score is meaningless on its own and should simply be used for comparison to other devices. However, the of import metric is the average FPS, which is a real-world benchmark.

The iPhone 13 Pro with its five-core GPU smokes the competition, even its iPhone 13 sibling and that telephone's quad-core GPU — the extra core seems to actually matter, based on these results. But look at how far alee the A15 Bionic is compared to the Snapdragon 888 phones, which hadn't defenseless up to the A14 Bionic from last twelvemonth.

The iPhone 13 Pro netted double the Snapdragon 888'southward all-time framerate in our testing, which is insane. The Wild Life Unlimited benchmark is pretty hard on phones. (I didn't even include the newer Wild Life Farthermost Unlimited, which nosotros've only recently started using in our testing.) Then seeing the iPhone 13 Pro fare so well is a bit mind-extraordinary.

iPhone thirteen: Video encoding speeds

Another real-world application to gauge a phone's performance is our Adobe Premiere Blitz exam. This tasks a phone to transcode a 4K video file to 1080p. The results below are listed equally minutes:seconds.

Adobe Premiere Rush

	Processor	Fourth dimension (Mins:Secs)
iPhone 13 Pro	A15 Bionic	0:26
iPhone 13	A15 Bionic	0:26
iPhone 12 Pro	A14 Bionic	0:27
iPhone 12	A14 Bionic	0:26
Galaxy S21 Ultra	Snapdragon 888	1:03
Milky way S21	Snapdragon 888	i:03
Galaxy Z Fold 3	Snapdragon 888	0:50
OnePlus nine Pro	Snapdragon 888	1:03
Asus ROG Phone 5	Snapdragon 888	1:00
Pixel 5	Snapdragon 765G	2:52

Yr-over-year, in that location's functionally no difference betwixt the iPhone 13 and iPhone 12 — perhaps a second here or there. Yet, Apple'southward lead over Qualcomm remains, performing the transcode in half the time that most of the Snapdragon 888-equipped phones needed.

Transcoding is a CPU-intensive chore, and it makes sense that Apple'south phones would pb the way on this detail benchmark. Apple tree has said that y'all can perform a full video workflow from shooting to rendering on the iPhone 13. The iPhone xiii can also tape in the ProRes format natively, which is what many professionals use.

The poor Pixel 5 needed triple the time required by the other Android phones.

iPhone 13 performance outlook

Another twelvemonth, and Apple has further cemented its pb over Qualcomm. Non only does the iPhone 13 serial have splendid bombardment life (excluding the mini, which is beneath boilerplate) and stellar cameras, but it's the near powerful suite of phones you can buy. If having the best operation is a acme priority for you, then you'll want to look at the iPhone 13 or iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max. The phones went on auction on September 24.

Let'due south promise Qualcomm's next loftier-end Snapdragon or Google's Tensor can narrow the gap with what Apple has built.

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Jordan is the Phones Editor for Tom'south Guide, covering all things phone-related. He'south written about phones for over five years and plans to proceed for a long while to come. He loves nothing more than than relaxing in his domicile with a book, game, or his latest personal writing project. Jordan likes finding new things to swoop into, from books and games to new mechanical keyboard switches and fun keycap sets. Jordan tends to lurk on social media, but yous can best reach him on Twitter.

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