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Apple iPhone 11 Pro review: Performance
Itโs become a familiar trope but itโs nonetheless true to state that if Apple hadnโt improved the speed of its iPhones in 2019, it wouldnโt have mattered one jot. Even a year on, the Apple A12 Bionic remains at the pinnacle of smartphone processor performance. It's faster than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, the Kirin 980 and the Samsung Exynos 9820, all processors powering the fastest, and most expensive, Android phones around.
That the six-core Apple A13 Bionic inside the iPhone 11 Pro extends this lead even further wonโt surprise anyone. The sheer extent of its advantage, and what this allows the phone to do, however, may well take you aback. Hereโs a graph of how the phone benchmarks against its closest rivals, to demonstrate just how far it is ahead:
The iPhone 11 Pro is, in short, hugely overpowered for everyday tasks and even the most demanding games will barely cause it to break sweat. Where all this horsepower may come in useful is in niche, near professional-level applications such as the forthcoming Filmic Pro app. This app, rather remarkably, will be able to record two streams of 4k 60fps video simultaneously from two of the three rear cameras, or one stream from the front and one from the back, again at the same time. With many modern phones only just beginning to get to grips with single streams of 4k video, the iPhone 11 Pro looks truly to be one step ahead.
Apple has established credentials in the performance stakes, though; where it has struggled in recent years is battery life with both the iPhone Xs and Xs Max falling short of their big Android rivals. The good news is that the iPhone 11 Pro shows solid signs of improvement. Anecdotally, I've been getting better comfortably better battery life with the smaller 11 Pro than the iPhone Xs Max I've been using for the past couple of months and that performance has been backed up by the phone's performance in our video rundown test.
With flight mode engaged and the display set to 170cd/m2 to ensure a consistent brightness across all phones we test, the iPhone 11 Pro lasted 17hrs 15mins before requiring a recharge. That's four and a half hours longer than the iPhone Xs, which represents a significant 35% over last year's phone. That's not surprising given the battery has grown in capacity but it's still welcome and brings the iPhone 11 Pro almost level with the Samsung Galaxy S10. It's still no match for the Snapdragon 855-equipped phones we've seen recently, though, such as the Xiaomi Mi 9.ย ย
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