Besides flaunting its new smartphone camera partnership with Leica, the Xiaomi 12S series of devices are also the world’s first to sport Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. As the devices are arriving in reviewers’ hands, the Xiaomi 12S continues to shock reviewers because in one of the latest performance review videos circulating online, it is shown that the Xiaomi 12S Pro and Xiaomi 12S Ultra outlast Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro Max in a screen-on-time (SoT) endurance test.
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Chinese-based technology YouTuber, Geekerwan, recently posted on his YouTube channel comparing the performance of Xiaomi’s latest flagships with its competitors in the current market. In the video, the Xiaomi 12S Pro and 12S Ultra go up against the Xiaomi 12 Pro, Realme GT 2 Pro, Redmi K40, Redmi K50 Pro and of course the gold standard of smartphone performance – the Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max.
On the 3DMark Wildlife Stress Test benchmark, it can be seen that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 found on the Xiaomi 12S Pro and 12S Ultra outperforms all other Android flagships in raw CPU and GPU performance, including the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 on the Realme GT 2 Pro and the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC on the Redmi K50 Pro. The 8+ Gen 1 SoC however is still behind the Apple A15 Bionic SoC on the iPhone 13 Pro Max. Stability-wise, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is also a major upgrade from the 8 Gen 1, as it now can perform within the same league as 2022 flagship SoC chips like the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 and Apple A15 Bionic chipsets.
Next is the smartphone endurance test, and here is where the results get spicy, the Xiaomi 12S Pro and Ultra manage to dethrone Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro Max as the overall smartphone endurance champion!
In the video, it is shown the Xiaomi 12S Pro and 12S Ultra have managed to achieve a mind-boggling 7 hours and 50 minutes, and 7 hours and 47 minutes of screen on time respectively, surpassing Apple’s previously thought to be untouchable record of 7 hours and 42 minutes of screen on time.
Compared to the measly and disappointing 5 hours and 44 minutes of screen on time achieved by the Xiaomi 12 Pro with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC that has the same 4600mAh battery, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 has managed to greatly improve battery life by a whopping 2 hours on the Xiaomi 12S Pro.
The SoT endurance tests consisted of mixed usage with gaming on Genshin Impact, WeChat messaging, voice calls, video calls, web browsing, TikTok and also video streaming, each task took around 30 minutes of usage until the battery was depleted.
However, do note that these tests were done on China models of the Xiaomi 12S Pro, Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max and other devices, which were running on Chinese software applications. So an endurance done on global models of these devices running on software outside of China may yield different endurance results.
Still, we now know that the Xiaomi 12S Pro and 12S Ultra are a massive jump in terms of power efficiency and battery endurance compared to the Xiaomi 12 series launched back in December 2021, now they can even surpass the current flagship smartphone market leaders like the Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max.
The Xiaomi 12S Pro and Xiaomi 12S Ultra are now available on Giztop from only US$ 899 and US$ 1199 respectively.
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