Mobile phone processors or SoC are full fledged computers today with components like CPU, GPU, Image Signal Process, Artificial Intelligence accelerators, Security, Sensors & Cache memory. When you are in the market to buy your next phone, manufacturers generally publish the SoC or mobile phone processor which they are using. This can vary from Snapdragon from Qualcomm, Exynos from Samsung, Helio from Media tech, or A series chips from Apple. But each one of them use this SoC in a different way, optimising these chips for better performance with their operating system.

Consumers are generally not very well aware about these differences. Consumers buying mid range phones will generally check for RAM, Storage & possibly if it is a Quad core processor or Dual Core processor. But the speed of each core in the processor isn't something which every consumer will understand. As well as manufacturers do not give out all specifications clearly. For instance most manufacturers still do not share the frequency of RAM which they are using with an SoC. It will state LPDDR5 or LPDDR4 but frequency in MHz isn’t specified. Similarly memory or storage speed is not something which many manufactures will openly share on their website.

Best way to overcome all these performance specification understanding, is to review industry benchmarking rather than just believing the manufacturer.

Antutu & Geekbench are two universally respected tools using which you will be able to test the processor, GPU & operating system optimization for the SoC used. This will always help you get better returns for the money spent on your next mobile.


Antutu benchmark

- It is the most popular Android smart phone and tablet . Over 100,000,000 users
- No.1 benchmarking app for technology addicts, bloggers, and enthusiasts.
- Through click and go test suite, Antutu benchmark measures User Experience, CPU, RAM, 2D/3D graphics, GPU, I/O performance of Android smartphone or tablet. You can get accurate device performance score report and your device ranking, which you can share and compare with other Android devices.

https://www.antutu.com/en/index.htm

Geekbench

https://browser.geekbench.com


Chapters
00:00 Mobile processors tough to understand
01:13 Components of a Computer
01:37 Component of a Smartphone
02:34 Manufacturers claiming SoC names & performance
03:01 What is inside SoC (example Snapdragon 888)
05:03 RAM Frequency is shared by manufactures
06:47 Reasons for not using best components with SoC
07:07 Samsung S21 not specific about RAM freqency
08:29 Introduction to Benchmarking Tools - Antutu & Geekbench


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