Lumia 1520 beats the iPhone 6 in graphic tests

Sep 17, 2014 08:14 GMT  ·  By

Yesterday, early benchmarks of Apple’s newest spawn, the iPhone 6, popped up online, showing some pretty disappointing results.

Granted, they only covered the GPU department, but even so, they were a lot lower than we could have anticipated.

Back when the iPhone 5s came out, it marked an important incremental upgrade in the performance department, but by the looks of it, the same story doesn’t apply to the iPhone 6.

Yesterday we only compared the iPhone 6 mostly to older models of the iPhone, and we thought it might be interesting to see how the brand new, shiny handset fared out against the competition coming from Google, Microsoft, and others.

The iPhone 6 GPU scores fade in front of the competition

But first, a little reminder: the GPU tests performed by Rightware showed that the new A8 processor inside the iPhone 6 managed to score 21,204 points, while the A7 in the iPhone 5s grabbed 20,254. As you can see, the difference is quite insignificant.

Moving into the past, the iPhone 5 scored 10,973, while the iPhone 4S hit just 5,034 points.

Based on the above results and placed in a top with other competing models, the iPhone 6 came in at number 17, lagging way behind smartphones like the Google Nexus 5.

The Nokia Lumia 1520 takes the GPU crown

What’s extremely interesting is that the position of top dog goes to the year-old Lumia 1520, which eats up 25,346 points.

The Lumia 1520 might not be the newest smartphone in the garden, but it runs on a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with Adreno 330 GPU plastered on top.

Other smartphones taking the lead in front of the iPhone 6 are the Sony Xperia Z2 and its 25,174 points and the Galaxy S5 with 23,501.

We should keep in mind that the Apple iPhone 6 is probably due for another fall, since the benchmarks of the Xperia Z3 are expected to make an appearance soon. The smartphone is one of the most powerful handsets on the market and will probably jump right in front of the pack.

Nevertheless, even if these early results have proven to be disappointing for Apple fans, we should point out that benchmarks aren’t everything. Especially since we don’t have the full picture yet.

On top of that, different benchmarking software will provide different results, so we shouldn't take to heart these results in an absolute manner. They are here just to show up a facet of the whole account.

After all, most fans hold a loyalty to the Apple brand due to their love of the uncluttered, simple, and stable iOS interface and not the hardware per se.