Discussion - This new chip could trash the iPhone 18 Pro Max, and it's not the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6

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ZombieHunter
ZombieHunter
Arena Apprentice
• 8h ago

What a stupid story. Mediatek is making stellar chips now, how is it going to "Trash" the iphone? Likely, 99.9% of users don't care about the chip in their phone as long as it works.

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TuGa121
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• 3h ago

It's interesting to see Apple remain the industry benchmark. They’ve really set the bar this year; the new foldable has made competing devices look obsolete, the iPhone 18 Pro Max has clearly outperformed the S26 Ultra again, and the A20 chip has significantly outpaced Qualcomm’s offerings. I dont blame PhoneArena for articles like this.

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shibadido
shibadido
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• 1h ago

if x500 pro max has 8000mah and comes with this im sold

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Brewski
Brewski
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• 1h ago
↵TuGa121 said:

It's interesting to see Apple remain the industry benchmark. They’ve really set the bar this year; the new foldable has made competing devices look obsolete, the iPhone 18 Pro Max has clearly outperformed the S26 Ultra again, and the A20 chip has significantly outpaced Qualcomm’s offerings. I dont blame PhoneArena for articles like this.

Same thing happened last year, and the year before. Apple comes out with their chip and it's the fastest. Then a few days later Qualcomm releases theirs and Apple ain't the fastest no longer. You gotta compare like for like, yeah the A20 was released in 2026 of course it will beat a chip that was released in 2025. When Apple launched the iPhone 16 in Sept 2024, they touted the A18 Pro chip as having the fastest consumer CPU in any smartphone. However, just a month later in October 2024, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Qualcomm immediately claimed the crown for the "world's fastest mobile CPU," backing it up with benchmarks.


It's interesting to see you think that Apple is any sort of industry benchmark. They have always been 2nd place behind Qualcomm, and this article is saying they are such a low-hanging fruit that even MediaTek may surpass them.

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TuGa121
TuGa121
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• 57m ago
↵Brewski said:

Same thing happened last year, and the year before. Apple comes out with their chip and it's the fastest. Then a few days later Qualcomm releases theirs and Apple ain't the fastest no longer. You gotta compare like for like, yeah the A20 was released in 2026 of course it will beat a chip that was released in 2025. When Apple launched the iPhone 16 in Sept 2024, they touted the A18 Pro chip as having the fastest consumer CPU in any smartphone. However, just a month later in October 2024, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Qualcomm immediately claimed the crown for the "world's fastest mobile CPU," backing it up with benchmarks.


It's interesting to see you think that Apple is any sort of industry benchmark. They have always been 2nd place behind Qualcomm, and this article is saying they are such a low-hanging fruit that even MediaTek may surpass them.

Smartphone comparisons should always be conducted on a year-to-year basis, matching devices released within the same cycle rather than comparing them against future hardware. For instance, the iPhone 18 series should be compared against the Galaxy S26 series, not the yet-to-be-released S27. Flagship releases are staggered throughout the year—with Samsung’s S-series in March and foldables in August, followed by Apple in September—so it is only logical to judge them against their direct contemporaries to avoid bias.

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