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The 5 most powerful smartphones in Geekbench today

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WELL, make that five for each Geekbench 4 test — five smartphones for single-core and another five for multi-core. In case you didn’t know, Geekbench is one of the industry-standard, cross-platform benchmarking tools. It’s synthetic, yes, but until many apps have been optimized for iOS 11, we’d settle for this than for supposedly real-world “(insert name of iOS device here) vs (insert name of Android handset here)” tests. Just to be fair.

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So how do the lists look as of today? Do Android phones rule the roost, so to speak? Or do Apple chips make iOS devices look good?

Before you check out the results below, keep in mind that higher scores are better, with double the score indicating double the performance. And as developer Primate Labs says, “Geekbench 4 scores are calibrated using a Microsoft Surface Book with an Intel Core i7-6600U processor as a baseline with a score of 4,000 points.”

Single-core benchmarks

Yes, you’re looking at an all-iPhone list, with the first three being powered by Apple’s new A11 Bionic chip and the last two being handled by 2016’s A10 Fusion. The top Android smartphone is the Exynos 8895 Octa-powered Samsung Galaxy S8, and its score of 1966 is not even remotely close to last year’s iPhone 7 Plus.

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Multi-core benchmarks

Finally, two Android phones have been able to penetrate the list, albeit having a significant score difference between them and Apple’s latest offerings. Both of them are made by Samsung. Unfortunately for Qualcomm, the variants included here are using the Korean giant’s own Exynos chip, not Snapdragon 835.

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Will we see different results in “real” real-world tests? Let’s find out as soon as the dust settles for iOS 11.

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Editor-in-chief: Alora Uy Guerrero has 22 years of experience as an editor for print and digital publications such as Yahoo. She took time off journalism to manage OPPO’s digital-marketing campaigns. When not busy with her babies, she’s working on Revü, a passion project — or probably traveling or obsessing over her favorite bands, movies, TV shows, and basketball teams.