INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S11 is going to be more powerful than the Apple's iPhone 11 Pro, at least according to our benchmarks of the
Snapdragon 865 chipset.Qualcomm, the chipmaker behind the Snapdragon 865, gave TheIndianSubcontinent the chance to test out an 865-loaded
reference device, and with that, we ran all of the usual benchmarking applications: Geekbench, GFxBench and AnTutu to name a few.What's
important are these two things:The Samsung Galaxy S11 is likely to be powered by the Snapdragon 865 chipset in some countries where Samsung
doesn't use its own Exynos chipset
In the US, the Galaxy S10 series had the Snapdragon 855, the Galaxy S9 series used the Snapdragon 845, and so on
The 865 will be the chipset at the heart of a majority of Android flagship phones in 2020.The Snapdragon 865 benchmark results proved to
outpace Apple's A13 Bonic chipset (found in the iPhone 11 series) in some key areas
You may think that's a given since the iPhone is a bit older, but last year the Snapdragon 855 trailed the A12 Bionic chipset
So this is an important distinction for 2020 Android phones.Without further ado, let's check out Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 reference device,
its specs and the benchmarks that come from it.(Image credit: Future)Snapdragon 865 reference device and specsTechnically, this is the first
Snapdragon 865-powered smartphone, although you'll never be able to buy it
It's just a reference device that Qualcomm uses to demo the capabilities of its brand-new chipset.It's also perforated with holes on the
back, but other than that, the partially-visible guts of the handset are exactly what you'd want from a phone in 2020: a Quad HD+ 2880 x
1440 resolution, 12GB of LP5 dual rank RAM, an octa-core CPU (4xA77 + 4xA55) and 128GB of internal storage.Before we set out to benchmark
the Snapdragon 865 and gain insight into what the Samsung Galaxy S11 could be capable of, Qualcomm reps did note that there's a "performance
mode," which speeds up the chipset while draining the battery a bit faster
That did make a difference in some of our tests, as you'll notice.(Image credit: Future)Snapdragon 865 raise hopes for the Galaxy S11When we
test smartphones at TheIndianSubcontinent, we often rely on benchmark apps like Geekbench 5, and it has some good news for the Galaxy S11
thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865: its multi-core score assessment shows that Android phones will be able to outpace Apple's A13 Bionic
chipset when it comes to complex workloads.With a multi-core score of solid 3,450, the Snapdragon 865 reference phone pulled ahead of our
iPhone 11 Pro Max, which had a multi-core score of 3,337
Large tasks like video rendering, 3D gaming and image processing benefit from higher scores.The single-core score, however, told a different
story with a 931 Geekbench 5 score on Qualcomm's reference device
The iPhone 11 Pro Max got a rather appropriate 1331 when we re-ran tests today using the latest version of iOS 13.The single-core compute
score is better for simple tasks, like mobile web browsing, which can't be broken up to take advantage of eight cores at once
Single cores are becoming less important, and Qualcomm is putting emphasis on the multi-core score, GPU and AI chips within its multi-fanged
Snapdragon 865 chipset.For these tests, we turned to tools like GFxBench and AnTuTU for GPU benchmarks and AITutu and Ludashi AI Mark for
All four met or exceeded the scores that Qualcomm had in its 'expected' score range
The pre-installed GFxBench Manhattan offscreen test gave us a score of 89, AnTuTU's GPU test ran topped 221,435, Ludashi AI Mark went above
100K at 105,072 and AITuTu went to 455,235 after three consecutive tests on each app.Translation? We're expecting powerful graphics and AI
performance from Android phones in 2020, and the heavy tasks run by multi-core processors will catch up to and slightly exceed what Apple is
capable of doing on its iPhones right now
Qualcomm's chipsets still lag behind when it comes to simpler tasks, but as app developers spread workloads to more cores, the single-core
score is becoming less important than the combined effort of an eight-core mobile chipset. (Image credit: Future)A good sign for Android
phones in 2020Speed and processing power aren't everything
But there were so many close calls on our best phones list in 2019 that any edge could shake up our rankings in 2020. The iPhone 11 was in
many ways more capable than the many, many Galaxy phones in 2019, but the value of Samsung's devices were a win when it came to storage and
price – that's what swayed us in the end
Little factors can make a big difference.We're seeing a powerful yet efficient 5G-capable chipset from Qualcomm, so even if you're a fan of
iPhone series, it's going to push Apple, Huawei and other non-Snapdragon-using smartphone manufacturers to compete
And that's a win-win for consumers no matter how they shop for phones.The Snapdragon 865 will power next year's handsets, so here's the
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