Hey guys, what is going on? My name is Yuan, and today I've got a conglomerate of iPhone
models once again, for another episode of chip contest.
This is the series where we take a look at all the recent processors that Apple has made,
and compare them against each other.
So if you want to see where your device is along this hierarchy of processors, then this
is going to get real interesting, real quick, because ---
Future Yuan: Hey!
Past Yuan: What the--?
Future Yuan: Is this 2020?
Past Yuan: Yeah it's April 2020.
So?
Future Yuan: Crap!
*shocked*
*door close*
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*turns on Apple Watch*
*flicker flicker*
*WOO-PEW*
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in a second I'll be right there.
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Voice of Present Yuan: This is the largest chip contest ever made
featuring an iPhone from each of
the last six years.
We have the iPhone SE, the bang up iPhone 7, the iPhone X in one of the 50 shades of
space gray, the yellow iPhone Xr inspired by IP Freely, the I hate-public-speaking red
iPhone 11, and the iPhone 12 Pro in slightly-depressed blue.
These processors all first appeared during a different year and a different device
and they also represent several other devices that have the exact same processor.
The new ones introduced in the last year are highlighted in yellow.
If your device is on the list, that means it's also represented by one of these contestants.
As per tradition, I went back in time and got
my past selves to help me make this video.
This is me from 2018 and me from 2017.
Apparently these are the least problematic ones.
2018 Yuan: Just tell us about Vegas, already!
2017 Yuan: i would like to know this too.
2021 Yuan: heh?
I was never in Vegas.
2017 Yuan: Dude stop lying, we can tell when you do it!
2018 Yuan: unless, he doesn't remember...
2021 Yuan: come on if i went to Vegas, i would remember it...probably
Time Bureau Agent:...he's not in my jurisdiction!
How can I apprehend him if he's not in my timeline?
*WOO-PEW*
(ouch)
Contact! Contact!
No no no ---
Alright, so.
The first test we're gonna do is the Geekbench 5 benchmark
this is a good indicator of how much raw processing power each device has, which affects your
daily
usage in terms of performance and responsiveness.
Generally the higher the score the better
skipping ahead, unsurprisingly, the iPhone 12
pro finishes first, followed shortly by the
iPhone 11, followed by the iPhone 7 which to
me was very surprising then the iPhone Xr
then the iPhone SE, finishes up before the iPhone X does.
In case you guys didn't know the
iPhone X's A11 bionic was the first in its series, and it had some major efficiency and
power management issues, resulting in slower performance, worse battery life, and diminished
thermal management.
Let's go ahead and move on to our second test: the Antutu benchmark
this is a graphics performance test.
Again, just like the Geekbench test, the higher the
numbers the better.
This essentially runs a series of graphic scenarios to see which device
can actually process the most amount of frames.
This will affect anything to do with media,
such as video, or gaming, and especially if you're rendering graphics, such as what this
test is doing right now.
I've also noticed that the iPhone SE and the iPhone 7 are not
performing the same tests, likely due to the limitations of their old hardware.
Man, the
last time I saw this was in the very first episode of Chip Contest with the A5 and A6
chip
Alright, skipping to the end, you might notice that there is a huge jump in graphics
power from the A11 to the A12 and for every subsequent generation.
Probably because Apple
figured out the efficiency issue they had with the A11 chips, therefore unlocking more
of the potential of the Bionic series, which is awesome.
Alright let's go ahead and see
some of this processing power in actual daily usage.
I'm gonna go ahead and clear out all
the multitasking apps and we're just gonna launch some applications and see which one
is first
So starting with the Apple store app, it looks like we're going straight down
the line this time around not very much variance which is great.
Next up, Best Buy.
Again, kind
of straight down the line, except for some reason the Xr and the 7 was struggling
a little bit, but nothing really that drastic of a difference.
And one app we use all the time
The camera app, 3, 2, 1, and it seems like the results are pretty mixed this time
around, but it doesn't seem to be that much of a difference between each device.
And if you can do me a huge favor by liking this
video that would be greatly appreciated
YouTube loves that
What do you think you're doing?
Wh-what are you talking about?
Where-what just happened?
You're destroying the space-time continuum!
What are you talking about??
The space-time continuum!
the Fabric of Reality!
Since when was reality a clothing brand?!
I'm just trying to make a YouTube video!
What the hell is a YouTube?
This!
*sound of fourth wall crumbling*
Alright, let's go ahead and move onto some
of the more creative applications.
These things are definitely going to push your CPU and
GPU way more than ordinary tasks.
First things first, we have Adobe Lightroom.
We're going
to be exporting the same five photos.
These are all edited raw images and i will be just
exporting them to each device's camera roll.
Now these are a mix of a whole bunch of different
images from different cameras such as the Sony A7iii the Canon R6 and they've all been
edited with various settings.
And photo exporting is actually a task that my MacBook pro will
struggle in doing.
It's one of the older non-M1 MacBook pros, but it seems like these devices
are just flying through it without any trouble at all strangely enough the iPhone X is the
first one to get done, followed by the Xr then the iPhone 12 pro then the iPhone 11
It seems like we're just jumping all over the
place in terms of who's first, and then shortly
followed by the iPhone 7, and lastly the iPhone SE
Very interesting set of results if you ask me
Let's go ahead and move on to the next one.
Alright, so this next test is a combination
of two different things: number one, we're going
to be AirDropping some 4K HDR footage from
my computer straight to each of these iPhones.
You can't really see my computer screen so
i'll mark it on the screen when i send the files for some reason not all the devices
are showing the little progress bar.
But don't worry, i've synced them up to be timed properly
and it seems like that the iPhone 11 has finished first, followed shortly by the 12 pro then
the Xr, then the X, then the iPhone 7 and finally the iPhone SE.
Now i've actually noticed
something pretty interesting here, the iPhone SE does not seem to want to save this file
because it is in HDR, but you can still see here that the other devices will process the
files like a normal video and show it as a normal video.
Where on the iPhone SE, the footage
is just completely blown out the iPhone 12 pro is the only device that'll properly display
it now that i've darkened down my camera you guys can kind of see the difference here
I talked more about this in my iPhone 12 review.
Now the second part of this test is that we're
gonna import that footage we just AirDropped and exported inside of VideoShop, which is
a mobile video editing program.
So we're just gonna export this 4k HDR footage straight
to the camera roll and see which one is first.
I know you might be thinking "Oh i'm not going
to be video editing on my phone."
But since a lot of the iPads are getting the same processors
as these devices, I think this test is actually very important.
Seems like the iPhone Xr finished
first and then the rest of the results just came pouring in.
I mean...wow.
So overall pretty
mixed results
I think it's fair to conclude that the A11 chip had some issues.
The A10 is getting old
and the A9 has just made history with iOS 15
being the first iPhone to be supported for 7 years
I was so surprised to see Apple announce this
Besides, it's super interesting
to see the differences between the oldest and newest supported iPhone
with that being said, the A12 and A13 still remain to be some of the best value chipsets
bringing us low-cost iPhones and iPads without compromising speed
Yuan: So the purpose of these speed tests i do every year is to compare these different phones
so that my subscribers know what to buy if they're looking to upgrade, by the way if you're
not subscribed, *wink*, subscribe!
*wrist cracks*
Yuan: What are you doing? No no no no i need this time navigation!
Time Bureau Agent: You're not destroying
my timeline anymore
Yuan: no no stop i need this
What are you doing!
*glass shatters*
Yuan: What did you JUST do?
Time Bureau Agent: You're not going anywhere
Yuan: Woah! No! Where we going?
*takes in oxygen*
Oh...
Huh...
*watches disappear*
Okay....
things just got real freaky