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In multicore, yes, as you'd expect out of an SoC with twice the core count of an A10.
 
In singlecore, not really. The A10 is still quite a bit beefier.
 
Can you notice the difference in normal real-world use? Not unless you do a ton of video encoding, which is not typical phone use.

In multicore, yes, as you'd expect out of an SoC with twice the core count of an A10.
 
In singlecore, not really. The A10 is still quite a bit beefier.
 
Can you notice the difference in normal real-world use? Not unless you do a ton of video encoding, which is not typical phone use.

It's not as easily obtainable in the US, but the aforementioned Pocophone F1 is usually the phone that's brought up when talking about <$500 phones.
 
SD845, 6/8GB of memory, 64/128/256GB SKUs with microSD support and a set of cameras that aren't actually bad alongside a 4000mAh battery. It's a shit ton of phone starting from $299 for the 64GB/6GB SKU.

They always have been. Even the XR, the "cheap" iPhone is technically on the lower-half of the high-end spectrum.
 
The only "budget" models Apple sells are previous iPhone models. Minus the iPhone SE, iPhones usually only cater to the high-end.

To be frank, a lot of the reasons why people prefer one platform over the other is a subjective reason from an objective fact.
 
There’s things Android is better at and there’s things iOS is better at.

And that really is the issue.
 
It's one thing to not be able to turbo, but it's another to not be able to maintain base speeds. The i9 should not have been offered in this state, period