These iPhone XS vs S9 vs OnePlus 6 benchmarks test A12 Bionic as the killer chipset

Apple's proprietary chipset architecture is tailor-made for its mobile operating system, so it has a real performance advantage before, say, off-the-shelf Snapdragons of this world, even when the production node was 10nm in Apple's previous A11 Bionic processor.
With 30%-300% better scores than the best Androids, A12 Bionic is now the chipset to beat
In fact, Apple's processors are so powerful that the company deliberately throttled them significantly when an iPhone battery degraded below a certain threshold, so as to avoid random reboots by peak power requests, resulting in the #battterygate brouhaha. On the plus side, it brought on $29 battery replacements for older models, a perk that is now coming to an end.Well, we put the new iPhones with the freshly squeezed A12 Bionic chipset, through some mobile benchmark testing, and the dry synthetic numbers show it will be the phone processor to beat now, like the A11 before it.
Apple iPhone XS vs iPhone X vs... iPad Pro
Apple touts just 15% performance increase over the A11 Bionic processor cores but adds 50% faster graphics with the new, fourth GPU core, and lossless memory optimization. As you can see below, in some of the comprehensive all-rounder benchmarks like AnTuTu the recorded increase in performance can reach the whopping 60%, as in iPhone XS vs iPhone X.
We put the two-year-old iPhone 7, from which people are most likely to be upgrading to the XS, just for giggles, and the difference is 200%+ in favor of the A12. Coupled with the performance-optimized iOS 12, this year's iPhones should perform smooth as silk.
AnTuTu Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
358091
Apple iPhone XS Max
336882
Apple iPhone X
224538
Apple iPhone 8 Plus
220618
Apple iPhone 7
168795
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch
223751
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JetStream Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
267.92
Apple iPhone XS Max
265.74
Apple iPhone X
218.98
Apple iPhone 8 Plus
224.62
Apple iPhone 7
144.71
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch
202.11
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GFXBench Manhattan 3.1 on-screen Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
59.7
Apple iPhone XS Max
59.3
Apple iPhone X
58.75
Apple iPhone 8 Plus
59.3
Apple iPhone 7
59.1
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch
28
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Geekbench 4 single-core Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
4806
Apple iPhone XS Max
4821
Apple iPhone X
4244
Apple iPhone 8 Plus
4243
Apple iPhone 7
3464
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch
3929
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Geekbench 4 multi-core Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
11416
Apple iPhone XS Max
11299
Apple iPhone X
10401
Apple iPhone 8 Plus
10330
Apple iPhone 7
5605
Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch
9288
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Apple iPhone XS vs Galaxy S9 vs LG G7 vs OnePlus 6
On the whole, this is not a fair fight for Androids, as not only are we comparing 10nm vs 7nm processors, but also custom chipset architecture optimized for an in-house operating system, against a smorgasbord of chippery and interface overlays.
Still, the best Android has to offer now does synthetics on par with last year's iPhones, while the new XS and XS Max blow them out of the water. The performance difference is largest in browser benchmarks, up to 300%, while in multi-core tests the A12 Bionic is just 30% ahead of the best Androids can muster, arguably on account of Apple's throttling shenanigans.
This extra power should be most noticeable in gaming or browsing activities, but the everyday interface grind and app transitions would get a worthy boost, too.
AnTuTu Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
358091
Apple iPhone XS Max
336882
Samsung Galaxy S9
244207.33
LG G7 ThinQ
239753.5
Samsung Galaxy Note9
244787
OnePlus 6
260353.5
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JetStream Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
267.92
Apple iPhone XS Max
265.74
Samsung Galaxy S9
61.834
LG G7 ThinQ
88.304
Samsung Galaxy Note9
63.24
OnePlus 6
88.123
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GFXBench Car Chase on-screen Higher is better
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Samsung Galaxy S9
25.66
LG G7 ThinQ
20
Samsung Galaxy Note9
26
OnePlus 6
30
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GFXBench Manhattan 3.1 on-screen Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
59.7
Apple iPhone XS Max
59.3
Samsung Galaxy S9
43.33
LG G7 ThinQ
31.66
Samsung Galaxy Note9
56
OnePlus 6
50
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Geekbench 4 single-core Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
4806
Apple iPhone XS Max
4821
Samsung Galaxy S9
3709
LG G7 ThinQ
2439.5
Samsung Galaxy Note9
3612
OnePlus 6
2413.66
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Geekbench 4 multi-core Higher is better
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Apple iPhone XS
11416
Apple iPhone XS Max
11299
Samsung Galaxy S9
8814.66
LG G7 ThinQ
8793
Samsung Galaxy Note9
8927
OnePlus 6
8929
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