AnTuTu have come out with a new report that shows off the Top 10 Best Performing Flagship Phones in April 2020, and it has a mixed bag of surprise and intrigue. What may or may not be surprising, is Xiaomi at the very top of the list with Samsung trailing behind from the fourth spot.
According to AnTuTu, the top performing flagship of April 2020 is Xiaomi’s Mi 10 Pro with an average score of 593769. The second spot goes to another device sporting the Snapdragon 865 chipset, the OnePlus 8 Pro with an average of 582697. Xiaomi also takes third place with the standard Mi 10 variant, with a score of 580027.
Only then do we see a Samsung device on the list, with the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G with the Exynos 990 chipset, measuring in at an average of 519713. This is Samsung’s most powerful, expensive device in the S20 lineup, just by the way.
Notably, the difference in the performance ratio seems to be attributed to the fact AnTuTu tested out the global Exynos variant of the device rather than the Snapdragon 865 processor variants found in Korea, U.S. and Canada.
Especially with the exorbitant prices of Samsung’s Galaxy S20 lineup, and most notably the S20 Ultra 5G, this shouldn’t be a thing. Samsung repackages their smartphones with an arguably worse processor than the Snapdragon 865 with their own Exynos 990, which has been the topic of debate earlier this year.
Check out this video from PhoneBuff, where he tested out the difference between the Exynos and Snapdragon S20 devices. In a real world setting, you can see the Exynos variant lagging behind, but as mentioned in the video, it’s hard to tell unless you compare the performance side by side like in the video.
But when you take into consideration Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G’s price of RM4999 vs Xiaomi’s Mi 10 Pro’s RM3899, it’s a hard sell. That is almost RM1100 price difference for lesser performance. In what world does that make sense? Repackaging their devices into a lesser phone, but maintaining the premium price tag isn’t how it should work, but that’s how Samsung have been operating for a while now.
At this point, the prices have reached levels of ridiculousness, and for what? Was there anything to gain from the Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G, besides the cameras?
This to me highlights a very important aspect of the smartphone industry, which essentially boils down to:
More expensive ≠ better performance.
