Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium hands-on review

Synthetic benchmarks

The Xperia XZ2 Premium has the Snapdragon 845 under the hood, like pretty much every high-end phone this year except for Huawei's and Samsung's (some Samsungs too, in fact).

But it's disclaimer time again. This is a pre-production unit running non-final software. Therefore, while the hardware is to the best of our knowledge identical to future retail units, the performance of the finalized units may differ.

Having said that, the Premium already puts out the numbers you'd expect from its top-tier hardware. One thing we need to point out is that in graphics benchmarks the onscreen tests are still carried out at 1080p and not in the full 4K resolution of the panel.

GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)

Higher is better

• Apple iPhone X
  10215
• HTC U12+
  9001
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
  8883
• LG G7 ThinQ
  8865
• Xiaomi Mi 8
  8494
• Sony Xperia XZ2
  8466
• Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (pre-production)
  8392
• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (Snapdragon)
  8349
• Samsung Galaxy Note8
  6784
• Huawei P20 Pro
  6679
• Samsung Galaxy Note8 (SD 835)
  6590
• Google Pixel 2 XL
  6428
• LG V30
  6365
• Sony Xperia XZ Premium
  5460

GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)

Higher is better

• Apple iPhone X
  4256
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
  3771
• HTC U12+
  2456
• Sony Xperia XZ2
  2454
• Xiaomi Mi 8
  2431
• Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (pre-production)
  2423
• LG G7 ThinQ
  2395
• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (Snapdragon)
  2199
• Samsung Galaxy Note8
  1987
• Google Pixel 2 XL
  1915
• Huawei P20 Pro
  1907
• LG V30
  1901
• Samsung Galaxy Note8 (SD 835)
  1862
• Sony Xperia XZ Premium
  1836

AnTuTu 7

Higher is better

• Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (pre-production)
  266723
• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (Snapdragon)
  264044
• HTC U12+
  263696
• LG G7 ThinQ
  259393
• Sony Xperia XZ2
  259244
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
  246660
• Xiaomi Mi 8
  217298
• Huawei P20 Pro
  209884
• Google Pixel 2 XL
  203119
• Samsung Galaxy Note8
  201065
• LG V30
  182374

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (Snapdragon)
  83
• Sony Xperia XZ2
  82
• Apple iPhone X
  81
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
  74
• Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (pre-production)
  72
• Huawei P20 Pro
  66
• LG G7 ThinQ
  66
• HTC U12+
  64
• Xiaomi Mi 8
  64
• Samsung Galaxy Note8 (SD 835)
  63
• Google Pixel 2 XL
  61
• LG V30
  60
• Samsung Galaxy Note8
  51
• Sony Xperia XZ Premium
  50

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

• Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (pre-production)
  59
• Apple iPhone X
  59
• Sony Xperia XZ2
  59
• Xiaomi Mi 8
  57
• Huawei P20 Pro
  55
• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (Snapdragon)
  51
• HTC U12+
  50
• Sony Xperia XZ Premium
  47
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
  45
• LG G7 ThinQ
  43
• Samsung Galaxy Note8
  42
• Samsung Galaxy Note8 (SD 835)
  37
• Google Pixel 2 XL
  36
• LG V30
  35

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (Snapdragon)
  61
• Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (pre-production)
  60
• HTC U12+
  60
• LG G7 ThinQ
  57
• Sony Xperia XZ2
  55
• Xiaomi Mi 8
  53
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
  47
• Apple iPhone X
  44
• Samsung Galaxy Note8 (SD 835)
  43
• Samsung Galaxy Note8
  42
• Google Pixel 2 XL
  42
• LG V30
  41
• Huawei P20 Pro
  40
• Sony Xperia XZ Premium
  39

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

• Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (pre-production)
  57
• Sony Xperia XZ2
  51
• Apple iPhone X
  51
• Xiaomi Mi 8
  50
• Sony Xperia XZ Premium
  41
• Huawei P20 Pro
  37
• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (Snapdragon)
  34
• HTC U12+
  33
• LG G7 ThinQ
  30
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
  24
• Samsung Galaxy Note8
  23
• Google Pixel 2 XL
  21
• Samsung Galaxy Note8 (SD 835)
  20
• LG V30
  19

Basemark X

Higher is better

• HTC U12+
  44390
• Sony Xperia XZ2
  44097
• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (Snapdragon)
  44013
• LG G7 ThinQ
  43833
• Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (pre-production)
  43802
• Xiaomi Mi 8
  43285
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
  42134
• Samsung Galaxy Note8
  40890
• Huawei P20 Pro
  39945
• Google Pixel 2 XL
  39143
• Sony Xperia XZ Premium
  38507
• Samsung Galaxy Note8 (SD 835)
  37211
• LG V30
  36704

Basemark OS 2.0

Higher is better

• Apple iPhone X
  4708
• Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (pre-production)
  4360
• HTC U12+
  4300
• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (Snapdragon)
  4196
• Sony Xperia XZ2
  3859
• Xiaomi Mi 8
  3858
• Samsung Galaxy Note8 (SD 835)
  3424
• Google Pixel 2 XL
  3379
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
  3354
• Samsung Galaxy Note8
  3333
• Huawei P20 Pro
  3252
• Sony Xperia XZ Premium
  3174
• LG V30
  2705