These are the most powerful smartphone processors, based on Geekbench tests

Smartphone processors have come a long way since Apple defined the modern smartphone with 2007 's iPhone.

Multi-core, gigahertz-speed SoCs are now the norm, even in cheap Android smartphones.

Despite the vast improvements across the board, one name still rules the roost: Apple .

The 8s Gen 3 slots between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and the Gen 3 , combining the latter's CPU architecture with some of the former's technology, including the graphics hardware and memory controller.

Qualcomm made some other cutbacks to get the 8 's Gen 3 down to a price where it could feature in $ 400 phones like the Xiaomi Poco F6.

MediaTek Dimensity 9200 is an octa-core CPU with a ray tracing-capable GPU and AI -accelerating NPU alongside it, making for a thoroughly modern smartphone chip.

Apple 's A14 Bionic powered the iPhone 12 family of phones, with no on-paper differences between CPU or GPU cores in any of the models.

The A16 Bionic straddled two generations of iPhone , with its six -core CPU and five -core GPU .

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is Qualcomm's most powerful SoC (at least at least until the Snapdragon 8 Elite hits the market) The A15 Bionic scored 2,120 in the single-core and 4,956 in the multi-core tests.