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such a feature would add to the price we’re more
than happy to not have it. Maybe one for Mi 10.Performance
In the smartphone world there are really just a handful
of processors sitting at the top of the pile. Apple’s
A12 Bionic leads the group in terms of synthetic
benchmark performance, and is followed by the Kirin
980 used by Huawei and the Qualcomm Snapdragon
855 that is used by just about every other flagship
phone on the market. All three are 7nm processors,
and all three produce a level of performance with
which no-one could reasonably find fault.
(Samsung also has its own processors, with the
Exynos 9820 found in the UK version of the Galaxy
S10. And then there’s MediaTek, but its cheaper
chips are in a different league.)Geekbench 4