iPhone 13 benchmarks — Apple just blew away Android phones

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iPhone 13 benchmarks — Apple simply blew away Android phones

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All four of our iPhone 13 reviews are in, equally are our benchmark results from testing. Apple tree promised gains with the new A15 Bionic chip, and while information technology'southward an iterative upgrade over last twelvemonth'southward A14 Bionic in most respects, it crushes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 that powers several of the all-time Android phones.

From synthetic benchmarks to real-world testing, the iPhone 13 series (especially the Pro models) pulled fifty-fifty farther ahead from the best chips Apple's competitors utilise. 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 6.

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Apple fifty-fifty said that the A15 Bionic's GPU in the Pro models would be 50% faster than the competition. (The all-time rival graphics engine right now is the Adreno 660 in the Snapdragon 888.) In our testing, that proved true in many cases. The A15's performance hike over iPhone 12 phones is middling, but Apple upgraded the Neural Engine on its chipset this yr. This has allowed for the new Cinematic mode and Photographic Styles, which heavily leverage AI to practise their thing.

Measuring a phone's operation goes beyond raw numbers. It'southward more nearly what the phone tin do in a real-globe setting, and in that regard, the iPhone xiii certainly delivers. But those raw numbers do tell an important story, so here'south how the iPhone xiii stacks up to what's already out there, for both the Pro, standard and mini models.

iPhone 13: Geekbench results

Geekbench 5 measures the CPU'south overall performance, cleaved out into single- and multi-core results.

Geekbench 5

	Processor	Single core	Multicore
iPhone xiii Pro	A15 Bionic	1733	4718
iPhone thirteen	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 ix Pro	Snapdragon 888	1126	3685
Asus ROG Phone 5	Snapdragon 888	1127	3672
Pixel 5	Snapdragon 765G	596	1617

Geekbench 5 scores are arbitrary in a vacuum, but they help measure a device'south performance in context to other devices — fifty-fifty if yous get slightly unlike scores every time you lot run the test.

As yous can run into, the iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 and iPhone xiii mini models are quite a ways ahead of the Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 765G. More than than a thousand points separates the iPhone 13 Pro from the two well-nigh powerful Android phones nosotros've ever tested, the OnePlus ix Pro and Asus ROG Telephone v. That'due south not to mention that the new iPhones pull well alee of the Milky way S21, Galaxy S21 Ultra and Milky way Z Fold 3, the best that Samsung has to offer.

And we'll but skip over that delta between the iPhone 13 and the Pixel v. Allow'south hope the Pixel 6 helps Google grab up a bit.

iPhone 13: Graphics benchmarks

A lot of people play games on their phones, with the iPhones leading the charge. For the post-obit benchmark, nosotros use 3DMark's Wild Life Unlimited examination, which produces a score and average frames per second. It's meant to provide a realistic impression of a telephone's gaming operation.

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 2nd
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
Galaxy Z Fold 3	Snapdragon 888	5622	34
OnePlus ix Pro	Snapdragon 888	5755	35
Asus ROG Telephone v	Snapdragon 888	5806	35
Pixel five	Snapdragon 765G	1160	7

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

The iPhone 13 Pro with its 5-core GPU smokes the competition, even its iPhone thirteen sibling and that phone'south quad-core GPU — the extra core seems to really matter, based on these results. But expect at how far alee the A15 Bionic is compared to the Snapdragon 888 phones, which hadn't caught upward to the A14 Bionic from last twelvemonth.

The iPhone 13 Pro netted double the Snapdragon 888's best framerate in our testing, which is insane. The Wild Life Unlimited benchmark is pretty difficult on phones. (I didn't fifty-fifty include the newer Wild Life Extreme Unlimited, which we've only recently started using in our testing.) And then seeing the iPhone 13 Pro fare so well is a scrap heed-boggling.

iPhone thirteen: Video encoding speeds

Another existent-globe awarding to gauge a phone'south performance is our Adobe Premiere Rush test. This tasks a phone to transcode a 4K video file to 1080p. The results beneath are listed as minutes:seconds.

Adobe Premiere Rush

	Processor	Time (Mins:Secs)
iPhone 13 Pro	A15 Bionic	0:26
iPhone thirteen	A15 Bionic	0:26
iPhone 12 Pro	A14 Bionic	0:27
iPhone 12	A14 Bionic	0:26
Galaxy S21 Ultra	Snapdragon 888	one:03
Milky way S21	Snapdragon 888	1:03
Galaxy Z Fold 3	Snapdragon 888	0:50
OnePlus 9 Pro	Snapdragon 888	1:03
Asus ROG Phone five	Snapdragon 888	1:00
Pixel five	Snapdragon 765G	2:52

Year-over-year, there's functionally no departure between the iPhone 13 and iPhone 12 — maybe a second hither or at that place. Nonetheless, Apple's atomic number 82 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's phones would lead the way on this particular benchmark. Apple has said that yous tin can perform a full video workflow from shooting to rendering on the iPhone 13. The iPhone thirteen can also record in the ProRes format natively, which is what many professionals use.

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

iPhone xiii operation outlook

Some other yr, and Apple has further cemented its lead over Qualcomm. Not merely does the iPhone xiii series have excellent battery life (excluding the mini, which is beneath average) and stellar cameras, but it'south the most powerful suite of phones you lot tin buy. If having the best performance is a top priority for you, then you'll want to look at the iPhone thirteen or iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max. The phones went on sale on September 24.

Let's hope Qualcomm's next loftier-terminate 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's Guide, covering all things phone-related. He'due south written well-nigh phones for over v years and plans to continue for a long while to come. He loves goose egg more than relaxing in his home with a book, game, or his latest personal writing projection. Jordan likes finding new things to dive into, from books and games to new mechanical keyboard switches and fun keycap sets. Jordan tends to lurk on social media, simply you can all-time reach him on Twitter.

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