With the iPhone XR containing the same A12 Bionic chip as the iPhone XS, we expected it to offer identical performance, and this has now been confirmed. Macworld reported on the results it found from iPhone XR benchmarks …
The iPhone XR offers the same performance enhancements over last year’s iPhone X as its more expensive siblings.
Indeed, in one of the iPhone XR benchmarks – a GPU test – the iPhone XR came out on top, likely as a result of having fewer pixels to push.
In the GPU-powered Compute benchmark (which uses the Metal API), performance is about 40 percent faster.
Many iPhone XR buyers are likely to be upgrading from an iPhone 7 or older, and gamers will be particularly happy.
The XR is also the model to pick if battery-life is your priority.
The really interesting comparison, however, is with the iPhone 7 Plus.
iPhone XR benchmarks are unlikely to be the deciding factor for many buyers – that’s going to be the new design language at a significantly lower price than the flagship models – but it’s certainly good to know that the practice matches the theory when it comes to performance.
That’s a roughly 45 percent improvement in battery life with a slightly larger display and similar battery capacity. What an impressive improvement in just two years!
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