Apple iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro appear on AnTuTu, fail to impress

15 October 2020
The GPU of the A14 chipset is where the Apple devices fall short.

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  • AnonD-454049
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  • 16 Oct 2020

2020 is truly an eventful year. I'm not even surprised by anything anymore

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    • Anonymous
    • RIL
    • 16 Oct 2020

    Unless if the 12 mini REALLY does break its older 4.7" sibling models' past battery life curse, $699 for NEW non iPhone users are nowhere near a win at all because lol... extra $20 minimum for a charger.

    $700 in Malaysia gets you an Asus ROG Phone 3 Strix Edition complete with base accs + charger + dongle. It's not mini at all sure but with a comparable rival top SoC, big battery, better screen etc.

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      • Anonymous
      • u7V
      • 16 Oct 2020

      Hm looking at this I guess Apple chose efficiency for A14 compared to performance?

      I heard rumors that Apple actually fitted lower capacity battery in iPhone 12 series due to the need of space for 5G antenna, especially those mmWave one. If you look on the reveal, Apple didn't talk about battery capacity at all so this confirms my suspicion.

      So with lower battery capacity and power hungry 5G networks, Apple chose to focus on efficiency on A14 and this is why it only has modest gain on benchmark scores.

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        • Anonymous
        • I@a
        • 16 Oct 2020

        The unimpressive score is because of the new IOS 14. If IOS had the level of customization, versatility, flexibility and multi functionality of android, its benchmark scores will fall precipitously.

          Anonymous, 15 Oct 2020They'll have a special variant of the A series chips t... morestill...
          that would be alot worse than the 11th gen intel cpus
          atleast they should have gone for AMD for better integrated graphics, batterylife and thermals.
          this switch would have solve all macbooks problems.

            6ix, 16 Oct 2020You’re not smart enough to realize performance isn’t the qu... moreCry

              Lol can't wait to see what the next Snapdragon and Exynos is gonna be like

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                • Anonymous
                • j5$
                • 16 Oct 2020

                And thus demonstrates the uselessness of antutu.

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                  • Steve jobs
                  • L6g
                  • 16 Oct 2020

                  Anonymous, 15 Oct 2020When will people start to realize that for the same amount ... moreIt just works

                    Anonymous, 16 Oct 2020Thats like saying core i3 is the fastest chip on the market... moreHaha Yeah... They can only come with weak arguments.
                    If iPhone had more RAM it would score more,
                    If iPhone had more Cores, it would score more.
                    If iPhone had higher refresh rate screen, it would score more... Well Duh!

                    That's the same as saying...
                    if my phone had bigger battery, it would score higher in battery endurance tests.
                    if my phone had 5g, it would score higher on network speed tests.
                    if my phone had bigger camera sensor, it would score higher on camera performance charts.
                    if my phone was made out of higher quality materials, it would score higher on durability tests.

                    All their claims about the A14 chip performance improvements over Snapdragon chips are in their fantasy world of "if iPhone had 'x' hypothetical scenarios"

                      ASUS ROG Phone 3, 15 Oct 2020Having more RAM some cannot achive faster benchmark (NOT re... moreBasically, what you mean to say is that "Android is on a different level" and iOS simply can't match up to it in year 2020.

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                        • BlackJesus
                        • 8f2
                        • 16 Oct 2020

                        annoying customer, 15 Oct 2020what nerd care about refresh rate? It’s doesn’t matter, was... moreIt matters AF

                          Anonymous, 15 Oct 2020App reloads and crashes will happen because of low ram. Ope... moreIPhone due to low RAM is notorious for reloading apps.
                          Real world tests have proven this where phones like ROG 3 and OP8 pro can hold many games in memory while Apple starts reloading.

                            Alex, 15 Oct 2020yes, if you only see the numbers, but in day to day some ap... moreIt's not just you and Android doesn't feel faster, it indeed is faster.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • ntJ
                              • 16 Oct 2020

                              Sponge, 15 Oct 2020Surely anything between 500000-600000 is easily fast enough... moreThats like saying core i3 is the fastest chip on the market.
                              Ohhh... It just scores less on benchmarks compared to i7 since it has less cores compared to i7.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • ntJ
                                • 16 Oct 2020

                                AnonD-804996, 15 Oct 2020Neither do I. There is plenty of positives with Android pho... moreThe 5 year update system of iOS is a giant scam. You get latest features 5 years late on an average. Android is light years ahead of iOS in terms of functionality, customizability, security and ease of use. Android from 5 years back can do things current iPhone can't.

                                iOS 14 finally got an app drawer and fully functional widgets, Lol these are things that existed on Android a decade back.

                                Plus with every subsequent update, your battery and cpu are deliberately slowed down by Apple (Yes, they are paying fines for this malpractice) whereby one is forced to upgrade after a few years.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • ntJ
                                  • 16 Oct 2020

                                  Boggy-Stefy, 15 Oct 2020When will you guys learn? An Apple fanboy will never change... moreLearn about Harmony OS before bashing it.
                                  It will still be Android based, it's running on AOSP base with Harmony play services instead of Google Play services. Only Google Apps won't work.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • ntJ
                                    • 16 Oct 2020

                                    JDK, 15 Oct 2020lol and he calls me the "biggest apple fanboi" wh... moreA couple of months back you said you were using IPhone 11 pro....so that was a lie?
                                    In every thread you are blindly supporting Apple.

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                                      • Sawsan
                                      • q{r
                                      • 16 Oct 2020

                                      6ix, 16 Oct 2020You’re not smart enough to realize performance isn’t the qu... moreIt's more like you are not smart enough to realize that Apple have no qualms about updating their phones.

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                                        • Levy
                                        • q{r
                                        • 16 Oct 2020

                                        It failed to impress because people are too impressionant these days.