iOS vs Android – Smartphone hardware comparison
While high-end Android smartphone processors are powerful, they pale in comparison to Apple chips in certain benchmarks.
The Apple A10 Fusion chipset in the iPhone 7 is a powerful processor optimised for use with iOS – which shows in performance tests.
We compiled benchmark data for processors found in modern iOS and Android devices to determine the performance difference between the hardware groups.
User-submitted data from the Geekbench Browser, which provides Geekbench 4 benchmark results for both multi-core and single-core performance, was used.
While the hardware inside the high-end Xiaomi and Huawei devices showed a slight edge over the iPhone 7 in multi-core performance, Apple’s hardware defeats its competition in single-thread processing power.
Apple’s A10 Fusion processor also boasts almost double the single-core performance of the hardware inside Samsung’s Galaxy S8+, as shown in the tables below.
iOS Benchmarks
| Processor | Device | Single-Core | Multi-Core |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple A10 Fusion @ 2.3GHz | iPhone 7 Plus | 3,333 | 5,533 |
| Apple A10 Fusion @ 2.3GHz | iPhone 7 | 3,325 | 5,516 |
| Apple A9X @ 2.3GHz | iPad Pro 12.9-inch | 3,029 | 4,961 |
| Apple A9X @ 2.3 GHz | iPad Pro 9.7-inch | 2,956 | 4,855 |
| Apple A9 @ 1.8GHz | iPhone SE | 2,400 | 4,072 |
| Apple A9 @ 1.8GHz | iPhone 6s Plus | 2,396 | 4,054 |
| Apple A9 @ 1.8GHz | iPhone 6s | 2,314 | 3,922 |
| Apple A8X @ 1.5GHz | iPad Air 2 | 1,792 | 4,095 |
Android Benchmarks
| Processor | Device | Single-Core | Multi-Core |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snapdragon 835 @ 1.9GHz | Xiaomi Mi 6 | 1,904 | 6,006 |
| HiSilicon Kirin 960 @ 1.8GHz | Huawei P10 Plus | 1,892 | 5,804 |
| HiSilicon Kirin 960 @ 1.8GHz | Huawei Mate 9 | 1,887 | 5,989 |
| HiSilicon Kirin 950 @ 1.8GHz | Huawei Honor V8 | 1,827 | 5,425 |
| Samsung Exynos 8890 @ 1.6GHz | Samsung Galaxy S7 | 1,800 | 5,269 |
| Snapdragon 821 @ 2.2GHz | Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus | 1,797 | 4,122 |
| HiSilicon Kirin 955 @ 1.8GHz | Huawei P9 Plus | 1,795 | 5,153 |
| Samsung Exynos 8895 @ 1.6GHz | Samsung Galaxy S8+ | 1,792 | 5,500 |
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