Samsung’s new Galaxy S22 series models are the fastest Android smartphones ever made, but Apple still has the world’s fastest mobile processor by a considerable margin.
In PCMag’s Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Galaxy S22 Ultra with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor achieved a multi-core score of 3,433 points, while the iPhone 13 Pro Max with Apple’s A15 Bionic chip scored 4,647 points.
Based on these results, the CPU performance of the iPhone 13 Pro Max is around 35% faster than the Galaxy S22 Ultra. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra scored 1232 points in the single-core test, and the iPhone 13 Pro Max scored 1735 points in the single-core test.
In the US, all Galaxy S22 series models are equipped with the Snapdragon 8 chip, but the models sold in Europe use Samsung’s Exynos 2200 chip. However, the multi-core score of the Exynos 2200 model’s Geekbench 5 results is above 3000 points, so the iPhone 13 model maintains a sizable lead in performance.
PCMag also ran Geekbench ML for machine learning performance, and the iPhone 13 Pro Max scored 948, more than double the Galaxy S22 Ultra, which scored 448. Apple’s A15 chip has a new 16-core Neural Engine capable of 15.8 trillion operations per second for machine learning tasks like on-device Siri processing. Apple will expand its performance lead with a faster A16 chip for the iPhone 14 series later this year.