The iPhone 12 just blew away the fastest Android phone

The iPhone 12 only blew abroad the fastest Android phone

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The rivalry betwixt Samsung and Apple is fierce, and now that the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro are out, information technology just got even more intense.

Apple has spent a lot of time hying upward its A14 Bionic chip, but just how powerful is information technology? Judging from i new test, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is mode behind.

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The folks over at PhoneBuff put the iPhone 12 Pro up against the Samsung Milky way Note 20 Ultra, the latest ultra-premium Samsung phone to hit the market place. The goal: to see how the iPhone 12's A14 Bionic and 6GB of RAM fares against the Notation 20 Ultra's Snapdragon 865 Plus and 12GB of RAM. And the iPhone 12 Pro came out on top.

Equally you can see in the video, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra gets an early atomic number 82, simply falls behind cheers to the iPhone 12 Pro managing to power through a video rendering challenge faster than any other phone PhoneBuff has seen earlier. While the Note 20 Ultra is able to regain some time subsequently on, the iPhone managed to blitz through the mobile gaming section to create a lead Samsung wasn't able to shut.

The starting time "lap" of opening apps took the iPhone 1 infinitesimal and 41 seconds, while the Samsung took 1 minute and 55. The 2nd lap, which aimed to test the phone'southward background running capabilities, didn't off-white much better for the Samsung. The Note 20 Ultra came in at 46 seconds compared to the iPhone 12 Pro'southward 42 seconds.

So in full the iPhone 12 Pro was able to shell the reigning champ with a total time of two minutes and 24 seconds. That's a full 17 seconds faster than the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra's two minutes and 42 seconds.

PhoneBuff pins the win on the iPhone 12 serial having more RAM than the iPhone 11, packing in 6GB instead of the previous 4GB. With that upgrade the phone was able to keep more apps and processes running in the groundwork, which meant information technology could hold its lead over the Galaxy Annotation twenty Ultra more effectively.

Of course this shouldn't exist a surprise to anyone who'southward paid attention to iPhone 12 benchmarks, because the A14 Bionic has proven to be more than powerful than whatsoever flake an Android phone has to offer. When Apple said the A14 delivers a 50% bound in graphics and performance over the A13 Bionic, it wasn't kidding.

In other words, if you're on the contend almost which telephone to buy, remember that the iPhone 12 seems to exist the faster handset. Though how information technology will perform against the upcoming Samsung Milky way S21 remains to exist seen.

Tom is the Tom'southward Guide'southward Automotive Editor, which means he can usually be institute knee deep in stats the latest and all-time electric cars, or checking out some sort of driving gadget. Information technology'southward long way from his days as editor of Gizmodo UK, when pretty much everything was on the table. He's commonly found trying to squeeze another behemothic Lego prepare onto the shelf, draining very large cups of coffee, or complaining that Ikea won't let him buy the stuff he really needs online.