With the advent of the 2020 Android flagships approaching, Qualcomm have been hyping up their new Snapdragon 865 SoC. They’ve been touting the chip’s performance, claiming it’ll be the best chip on the market, but now we’ve got actual benchmarks to look at. Someone ran Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 reference device (codenamed ‘Kona’) through AnTuTu, and the results are just as excellent as expected.
In AnTuTu, the chipset manages to score of 568,919 points, which puts it above every commercial smartphone currently available on the market. It’s a marked improvement over the Snapdragon 855 which averaged around 450,000 points, and even manages to nudge the iPhone 11 Pro Max and its Apple A13 Bionic chip aside.
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Compared with the Snapdragon 855+, Kirin 990 5G and MediaTek Dimensity 1000, the Snapdragon 865 still retains its clean lead, leaving it as the king of the pack. Granted, this is a reference device, it’s fully possible that final devices from manufacturers will score higher or lower than this, but it sets a very good standard for other chip makers to aim for.
The Snapdragon 865 was announced at their recent summit in Maui, Hawaii and will be probably be seen in all major flagship Android smartphones in 2020. With the Snapdragon 865, Qualcomm is promising up to a 25 percent increase in CPU and GPU performance, twice the performance increase in AI tasks and lower power consumption across the board. We can’t wait to get our hands on a Snapdragon 865 powered device and test it ourselves.
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