Samsung Galaxy S21 benchmarks leak — the iPhone 12 shouldn't be worried

Samsung Galaxy S21 benchmarks leak — the iPhone 12 shouldn't exist worried

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Samsung's Galaxy S21 may be arriving by the cease of adjacent month. And then it'southward not surprising that the leaks are starting to come fast and furious, with a steady stream of new information regarding its display, specs and cost coming over the final month.

Now nosotros are getting another glimpse at the kind of operation we might expect from the standard Milky way S21, courtesy of a set up of Geekbench v results. Unfortunately, things aren't looking that great for Samsung's flagship Android offering of 2022 right at present (via BGR).

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The Geekbench 5 result for this standard Galaxy S21 came in at i,075 for the single-core and 2,916 for the multi-core. For those keeping runway at home, that would exist a slight improvement on the single-cadre result from the Snapdragon 865+ powered Milky way Annotation 20 Ultra (985, 3,294). Yet, information technology's a step dorsum on multi-core result from the Snapdragon 865 results for the Galaxy S20 (3,147). But before Android fans panic, there are a few things to consider hither that make this not such bad news.

The first is that even with picayune more than a month to go before the declaration of these phones, it's still too early to put as well much weight backside benchmarks. In that location is no adventure that the Snapdragon 888 will exist behind its predecessor in whatsoever metric in one case it is properly optimized, so the only real question is whether that volition happen ahead of launch.

The other good news is that the chipset is the newly announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor and not Samsung's own Exynos chip. While the latter is starting to show some competitive operation on pure speed, Qualcomm has some really interesting stuff going on in the Snapdragon 888 that could yield some considerable real-earth gains beyond what would be captured by a Geekbench five consequence.

Now, none of this is going to allow the Milky way S21 to grab upwards to, much less surpass, the iPhone 12 and its A14 Bionic flake from a performance standpoint, that was never in the cards. Nonetheless, it seems reasonable to project that it will over again close the gap to something similar, if not slightly closer, than the difference betwixt Samsung and Apple tree's flagships concluding twelvemonth.

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