Laptops are better at delivering sustained performance over a longer period of time, as opposed to the shorter max burst performance that benchmarks like Geekbench 4 are designed to measure. Founder John Poole confirmed that it is legitimate to directly compare scores across platforms, though he did add an important caveat. Geekbench comparisons between phones and laptops used to be pretty meaningless, as the tests were not directly comparable, but that hasn’t been the case for some time now. On the multicore portion of this test, the iPhone 8 hit 10,170 The iPhone 8 even edged out the score from the 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro with a 7th-generation Core i5 processor. Let’s start with Geekbench 4, which measures overall performance. Tom’s Guide carried out a direct comparison with a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Core i5 processor, and found that the iPhone 8 was actually faster. To put it simply, the iPhone 8 line has a MacBook Pro Intel level processor inside.įresh tests provide a direct comparison to prove the point – and show the astonishing performance lead the iPhone 8 has over Samsung’s flagship devices in a real-life video editing task …

We noted in our iPhone 8 review that the Geekbench scores of the new iPhone were equivalent to a MacBook Pro.

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