iPhone SE (2016) iPhone SE Geekbench 5 scores & comparisons

[oVerboost]

Over on Reddit, people are arguing that the AnTuTu scores show the new SE as being slightly under clocked. So thought I would post up a comparison from Geekbench 5 tests...

Taken from this video, which has more photo comparisons etc.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

It's possible. Geekbench results vary each time and depending on conditions can change the score so I'd like to see more results

 

[JCCL]

Impressive how iPhone 8 scores in some of these compared to current smartphones.

 

[snipr125]

Impressive how iPhone 8 scores in some of these compared to current smartphones.

Yes the 2 generation old A11 is basically on par, or even slightly higher than current android flagships in single core performance. The iphone SE though performs on par with the iphone 11 pro max to me with no signs of under-clocking, which is incredible for a £420/$399 phone.

 

[JPack]

The main concern with the last few generations of iPhone is sustained performance. A couple runs of Geekbench doesn't show the true results. The iPhone 11 Pro has layers of graphite to transfer heat to the chassis.

 

[snipr125]

The main concern with the last few generations of iPhone is sustained performance. A couple runs of Geekbench doesn't show the true results. The iPhone 11 Pro has layers of graphite to transfer heat to the chassis.

For mobile phones, sustained performance is not really that important unless your doing intense photo/video editing. Most people would do these kind of tasks on ipads or macs which have much higher thermal overheads. With geekbench scores like this at least we know the iphone SE will be blazingly fast at common things like using safari, checking emails, light photo editing for instagram etc.

 

[JPack]

For mobile phones, sustained performance is not really that important unless your doing intense photo/video editing. Most people would do these kind of tasks on ipads or macs which have much higher thermal overheads. With geekbench scores like this at least we know the iphone SE will be blazingly fast at common things like using safari, checking emails, light photo editing for instagram etc.

There is more acceptance towards mobile gaming - Apple Arcade. With 5G fully deployed in some countries, streaming entire libraries of gaming content is becoming normal.

 

[now i see it]

At this point in smartphone history, Geekbench scores are meaningless. All the newest phones from every manufacturer are plenty fast.
The dark days of laggy molasses slow smartphones are gone forever

 

[MandiMac]

At this point in smartphone history, Geekbench scores are meaningless. All the newest phones from every manufacturer are plenty fast.
The dark days of laggy molasses slow smartphones are gone forever

Inexpensive Android smartphones with MediaTek processors (and some Qualcomm variants too) want to have a word with you.

 

[Motionblurrr]

For mobile phones, sustained performance is not really that important unless your doing intense photo/video editing. Most people would do these kind of tasks on ipads or macs which have much higher thermal overheads. With geekbench scores like this at least we know the iphone SE will be blazingly fast at common things like using safari, checking emails, light photo editing for instagram etc.

Since you seem to know your stuff (this isn't a condescending comment), I'm curious: if you're just hanging out at home on your couch in the evening, going between social media (facebook, twitter, snapchat, instagram), youtube, texting, email, safari for a few hours... does performance matter and would that fall under sustained performance?

 

[MandiMac]

Since you seem to know your stuff (this isn't a condescending comment), I'm curious: if you're just hanging out at home on your couch in the evening, going between social media (facebook, twitter, snapchat, instagram), youtube, texting, email, safari for a few hours... does performance matter and would that fall under sustained performance?

You won‘t be using neither CPU or GPU to 100 % this way. Take YouTube: Videos can be processed by hardware. Texting doesn‘t use much resources, neither does mail. When you‘re surfing the nets in Safari, chances are you don‘t load the whole time, but read something on your screen. In all these seconds, the CPU and GPU get some rest, so that‘s a far cry from actually sustained performance.

 

[1BadManVan]

I think the point of this post was more to combat the really low Antutu score that was leaked. It doesn’t seem to be an accurate score if geekbench 5 is showing it’s on par with the iPhone 11 series

Antutu score that’s going around is showing its barley ahead of the xs series

I’m curious to who’s actually right

 

[MandiMac]

I think the point of this post was more to combat the really low Antutu score that was leaked. It doesn’t seem to be an accurate score if geekbench 5 is showing it’s on par with the iPhone 11 series

Antutu score that’s going around is showing its barley ahead of the xs series

I’m curious to who’s actually right

Well, Geekbench is a CPU test and AnTuTu more of a GPU test. Then again, iPhone SE has 3 GB of RAM and the iPhone 11 series has 4 GB which explains the difference there.

 

[JPack]

I think the point of this post was more to combat the really low Antutu score that was leaked. It doesn’t seem to be an accurate score if geekbench 5 is showing it’s on par with the iPhone 11 series

Antutu score that’s going around is showing its barley ahead of the xs series

I’m curious to who’s actually right

AnTuTu is a more thorough test to simulate sustained high performance workloads for consumers. It includes storage and UX tests. AnTuTu GPU test are optimizing for rendering 3D graphics while Geekbench GPU tests are for compute workloads (e.g. crypto mining).

 

[Apple_Robert]

At this point in smartphone history, Geekbench scores are meaningless. All the newest phones from every manufacturer are plenty fast.
The dark days of laggy molasses slow smartphones are gone forever

A lot of people will use tests like this to bash Apple , and announce to the forum that he or she will not get the SE because of the results, when the person probably wasn’t going to get the phone in the first place.

I agree with you , though. It is meaningless drivel.

 

[jschnee21]

For mobile phones, sustained performance is not really that important unless your doing intense photo/video editing. Most people would do these kind of tasks on ipads or macs which have much higher thermal overheads. With geekbench scores like this at least we know the iphone SE will be blazingly fast at common things like using safari, checking emails, light photo editing for instagram etc.

Yes and no. If your running an intensive game like Oceanhorn2, Roblox, etc. this can come into play. Especially on iPads when my son is playing Roblox and watching YouTube simulation. His iPad gets quite warm. Add in heat from charging on top of that and things can get laggy at times.

It’s just like modern laptops (PC and Mac), in order to get the best, sustained performance from the CPU you have to run the fan on high all the time. My Lenovo 480 is expected bad. I had to get a separate app that lets me control the fan speed manually.

 

[snipr125]

Since you seem to know your stuff (this isn't a condescending comment), I'm curious: if you're just hanging out at home on your couch in the evening, going between social media (facebook, twitter, snapchat, instagram), youtube, texting, email, safari for a few hours... does performance matter and would that fall under sustained performance?

Hmmm i think going between many apps in this way would be more RAM and single core intensive, not so much multicore (which probably be used for sustained performance). Would also depend if your using the desktop wabpages or their simpler app versions. Either way i think an iphone SE would be able to handle the couch scenario you mentioned very easily, a 11 pro max even easier due to larger screen. What do you reckon?

 

[1BadManVan]

AnTuTu is a more thorough test to simulate sustained high performance workloads for consumers. It includes storage and UX tests. AnTuTu GPU test are optimizing for rendering 3D graphics while Geekbench GPU tests are for compute workloads (e.g. crypto mining).

Ok so you believe theres actually a 200k+ score difference for antutu but identical scores on Geekbench? Don’t think they are they far apart