Kirin 950 vs Snapdragon 820 Geekbench 4 has finally arrived

It seems like forever since Primate Labs has released a new version of their quick, effortless benchmarking software. Finally the day has come and Geekbench 4 is here.

While previous version, Geekbench 3, based the scores comparatively against Intel Core i5-2520M at a score of 2500, Geekbench 4 will normalize around Intel Core i7-6600U at a score of 4000. Note that there’s a correlation of scores between Geekbench 3 and Geekbench 4, but they can’t be directly compared.

More accurate

While some users aren’t happy with the new results, as some SoC have fallen in score in comparison to their peers, most people are praising Primate Labs for more accurate and realistic scores.

Longer tests

In comparison to Geekbench 3, Geekbench 4 takes much longer to run. According to Primate Labs the tests can run up to 20 minutes depending on the phone. Testing the mobile we have on hand, the Innos D6000 (Snap 615), took about 15 minutes for the CPU test, where it scored 602 on single-CPU and 1429 on multi-CPU.

CPU and GPU tests

Primate Labs has inluded a CPU test and “COMPUTE” GPU test. These tests can be run independently.

The results for some popular phones and chipsets Geekbench 3 vs Geekbench 4

Flip flop

In an interesting turn of events, we see that Snapdragon 820 has flip flopped with Kirin 950 in the single-core test; with the Kirin 950 beating out the Snapdragon 820, while in Geekbench 3 it was the other way around.

In the multi-core test, the Kirin 950 beat out Snapdragon 820 in both Geekbench 3 and Geekbench 4, but in Geekbench 4 there’s a much wider gap, showing the Kirin 950 simply smoking the Snapdragon 820.