Samsung’s latest telephone has arrived and it’s already among the best telephones of the 12 months. Together with a 200MP fundamental digicam, 100X zoom, and a large 6.8-inch display screen, the Galaxy S23 Extremely additionally has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy which has a better CPU clock velocity (3.36GHz vs 3.2GHz) and GPU clock velocity (719MHz vs 680MHz) than the usual chip, together with 12GB of RAM. Which means it must be the quickest Android telephone ever.

However that doesn’t imply it’s the quickest telephone ever. Apple’s chips have traditionally dealt with the newest Snapdragon chips with ease, however with a comparatively small velocity bump from the A15 to the A16, it appeared attainable, even doubtless, that Qualcomm would lastly catch as much as Apple’s latest iPhone chips.

Not so. In benchmarks recorded by our colleagues at TechAdvisor, the Galaxy S23 Extremely will get soundly crushed by the A16 within the iPhone 14 Professional and the A15 within the iPhone 13 Professional, and may’t even sustain with the iPhone 12’s A14 chip in Geekbench’s single-core take a look at. The S23 fares higher within the multi-core exams, nevertheless it additionally has extra cores and RAM and nonetheless barely beats final 12 months’s chip.

For specifics, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has an 8-core CPU whereas the A16 has a 6-core design. On the graphics facet, Apple makes use of a 5-core GPU and the Snapdragon has an Adreno 740 GPU. As you may see within the Wild Life benchmark above, the S23 Extremely really shines in the case of graphics, really besting the A16 in 3D Mark’s Wild Life Excessive Limitless take a look at, which will likely be nice for avid gamers.

It additionally exhibits how Qualcomm has prioritized graphics enhancements with the Gen 2 chip. In the identical take a look at with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, the Wild Life Excessive Limitless benchmark recorded 2577, making the brand new chip greater than 40 % sooner. In the meantime, the A16 was a considerably minor improve, with positive factors of roughly 10 % over the A15. Whereas Apple has made main positive factors with the GPUs in its Max and Extremely Mac chips, iPhone graphics have been considerably stagnant.

However in the case of on a regular basis efficiency, the S23 nonetheless lags behind the iPhone—and the hole is more likely to develop this 12 months. Whereas leaked Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 benchmarks present scores of 1930 (single-core) and 6236 (multi-core), each of which beat the A16, Apple is more likely to ship an enormous leap in efficiency with its 3nm A17 chip when it launches the iPhone 15 handsets. However a minimum of S24 Extremely patrons may have a telephone that beats the iPhone 13.