Cheaper phones are faster?

[Gamer Schnitzel]

I've been looking at mobile benchmarks and for some reason the cheaper version of phones seem to have higher benchmark scores. Why is this? I would assume that the processor of bigger phones is faster since they cost several hundreds more.

Can anyone explain this? Could it be thermal throttling? But surely the heatsink would be larger on the larger phones?

 

 

 

[ZetZet]

Stopped looking at phone benchmarks about 5 years ago. Makes no difference to average user. Actually at this point flagships are only worth buying if you take a lot of photos. 

[Imbadatnames]

6 minutes ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

I've been looking at mobile benchmarks and for some reason the cheaper version of phones seem to have higher benchmark scores. Why is this? I would assume that the processor of bigger phones is faster since they cost several hundreds more.

Can anyone explain this? Could it be thermal throttling? But surely the heatsink would be larger on the larger phones?

 

 

 

What benchmark is this? Geekbench has the 13 Pro and Max level and the 12 max beating the pro. 

[mistermodcreator]

I'm no expert either, but I'll give my opinion anyway, maybe it helps.

From what I can see, the "cheap" phones and the "expensive" phones have the same processor. It makes perfect sense for me, that those speeds are nearly identical. Those little differences are within margine of error and can be ignored.

 

But what makes a cheap phone more expensive, if the processor is the same?

Well, I think that the upgrade has to be somewhere else. Maybe a better screen, a better camera or a better battery?

 

I hope I was able to help at least a little bit.

 

Edit: Maybe I should read before I write. The IPhone, the Xiaomi and the Google Pixel have different sized screens.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Same soc same performance, well unless if it happens to be horrific throttling like on samsung z folds where my aunts z fold 3 cant even play mc at 48fps or even game properly while my moms much slower exynos 990 will crush that z fold 3 (75fps+ mc), z fold are laughably bad with soc choice, just get a lower end 732g and itll perform the same as a horrifically throttled 888, abit offtopic but if anyones looking at folding phones beware of the garbage performance throttling aside from the horrendous batterly life

[Kid.Lazer]

As some others have indirectly pointed out, thermal throttling is a huge deal on smartphones (and most mobile devices). Many of these one-size-fits-all benchmarks have incredibly short run times. Because of this, phones with less cooling and build quality can reach high scores before they begin to throttle. You can even see this in some of Linus' water-cooling-your-phone videos. They run benchmarks multiple times to thermal soak the devices, and the scores can fall dramatically with each run.

[jaslion]

Same chips same performance. However the bigger phones normally do better in longer benchmarks.

 

Either way unless you are gaming on your phone this doesn't matter one bit as phones are plenty fast in short burst and thats why this benchmark for all of these same soc ones perform similar.

[MrCutiePatootie]

I wouldn't say the cheaper phones are faster if the benchmark scores doesn't show a significant difference. Bigger phones are more expensive because they're just bigger. If you factor in the cost of materials that needs enlarging (screen, battery, chassis, maybe a little more RAM here and there), it can add up.