Geekbench reveals Kirin 980 to be slower than A12 Bionic
Despite Huawei's recent claims that their 7nm Kirin 980 is faster than Apple's A12 Bionic, Geekbench scores prove otherwise. Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro will see the light of day very shortly, in about two weeks, and they will be the first Android smartphones built in 7nm process. However, the Kirin 980 is still slower than the 7nm chipset made by Apple, even with less RAM than the Huawei's new flagship.
Kirin 980 scored 3390 single-core and 10318 multi-core points whereas the iPhone XS scored 4795 single-core 11179 multi-core points. This, however, doesn't necessarily mean much, since we know that benchmark results don't translate directly to real life performance. Perhaps the Mate 20 results are a bit lower because of the prerelease version of the Android Pie. This phone will out-of-the-box come with Android Pie, hopefully completely fixed and prepared for the end-users, and we hope that the benchmark scores will be even better then.
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