According to a recent teaser shared by Xiaomi (via Alvin), the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip on the 13 series devices features a 37% improvement in CPU performance and a 42% improvement in GPU performance when compared to Apple’s A16 Bionic chip. If these figures are taken at face value, this would end Apple’s longstanding dominance on the most powerful smartphone SoC, at least until the A17 Bionic comes around. But again, given these results are from Xiaomi’s own labs, these figures should be taken with a heavy dose of skepticism.
— Alvin (@sondesix) November 29, 2022 We already have a good idea of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC’s performance, given benchmark figures from a reference handset were released last week. Contrary to Xiaomi’s claims, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 still falls behind the A16 Bionic in GeekBench 5, with a single-core score of 1489 and a multi-core score of 5178. Although on the GPU front, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 manages to outperform by A16 Bionic in quite a few benchmarks. For example, just in 3DMark Wildlife the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 leads the A16 Bionic by about 30%, with a score of 13596. It is hard to put any of the numbers in context, given Xiaomi did not specify the benchmarks used for the test, or even the testing conditions. But given what we have seen so far on existing Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 phones, these figures are either cherry picked, or worse, downright misleading. Why would Xiaomi do this? Well, their flagship phones directly compete against Apple’s devices in China, which is also the company’s primary market. And we see this almost every year, where Xiaomi would specially refer to the iPhones in various comparisons, also using it as a marketing theme. – India Today
