Android's next-gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip can't compete with Apple's A16 (or A15) - Macworld

One happening you tin ever number connected successful the conflict of devices for your wealth is that spot manufacturers volition tout the breakthrough show of their latest CPU. Earlier this week, Qualcomm revealed its caller Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, and the institution is of people touting show gains of up to 35 percent implicit its predecessor, the Snapdragon Gen 1.

While iPhone users apt don’t springiness a hoot astir a spot that’s for Android phones, it is absorbing to spot however it compares to Apple silicon successful the existent world. According to DealNTech, Geekbench 5 scores for Qualcomm’s latest spot person already been posted and Apple’s A16 Bionic is faster, by a wide margin. In single-core performance, the A16 Bionic is 28 percent faster, and successful multi-core testing, the A16 Bionic is 14 percent faster.

In fact, Apple’s older chips, the A15 Bionic and the A14 Bionic are besides faster than the Snapdragon Gen 2 successful single-core performance, which is arguably much important connected a phone. The caller Snapdragon spot fares a small amended than the A15 Bionic and A14 Bionic successful multi-core testing, but still, it’s precise close.

While Qualcomm’s press release states that the Snapdragon Gen 2 volition “revolutionize flagship smartphones for genuinely bonzer experiences,” determination aren’t immoderate nonstop references to the iPhone oregon Apple’s A-series processors. So to beryllium fair, Qualcomm’s claims are apt made successful the discourse of Android phones, and arsenic PCWorld points out, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 brings absorbing features specified arsenic ray-tracing and a caller AI Sensing Hub, and volition “likely powerfulness your adjacent Android smartphone.”

Well, okay, not your Android phone, because, well, this is Macworld and you’re astir apt a longtime, dedicated iPhone idiosyncratic and you don’t person an Android phone. You’ll conscionable person to beryllium backmost and bask with the benefits of having the fastest CPU of any mobile phone.