Even though Samsung’s latest Galaxy S22 models are among the quickest Android smartphones ever, Apple still possesses the world’s fastest mobile CPU by a significant margin.
The Galaxy S22 Ultra with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor achieved a multi-core score of 3,433, compared to 4,647 for the iPhone 13 Pro Max with Apple’s A15 Bionic chip in a Geekbench 5 benchmark test conducted by PCMag. According to these findings, the iPhone 13 Pro Max outperforms the Galaxy S22 Ultra in CPU performance by roughly 35%.
In the United States, all Galaxy S22 variants come with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, whereas in Europe, the Exynos 2200 is used. However, multi-core scores for Exynos 2200 models in Geekbench 5 are still in the mid-3,000s, indicating that iPhone 13 models remain a significant performance advantage.
PCMag also ran Geekbench ML to test machine learning capability, and the iPhone 13 Pro Max received a score of 948, which was more than twice as high as the Galaxy S22 Ultra’s 448. For machine learning activities like on-device Siri processing, Apple’s A15 CPU includes a new 16-core Neural Engine capable of 15.8 trillion operations per second.
With an even faster A16 CPU for the iPhone 14 series later this year, Apple will try to extend its performance dominance.
