New benchmarks for Pixel 4a have emerged in Geekbench 5, effectively confirming that Google’s next budget phone will have a Snapdragon 730 chipset and 6GB of RAM.
And it will be surpassed by the iPhone SE 2020. This is because the Geekbench 5 results reveal a single-core score of 551 and a multi-core score of 1,655. Comparatively, in our iPhone SE Geekbench 5 test it scored a single core score of 1,337 and 3,226 in the multi core test.
Such a result isn’t really surprising, as the iPhone SE comes with Apple’s Bionic A13 chip, the same portion of silicon found in the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. By comparison, the Snapdragon 730 is on the lower end. from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 series, the company’s mid-range chip selection. So the iPhone SE was always going to win.
But that doesn’t really matter. Benchmarks are a good indication of benchmark performance. What’s really important is how well that performance translates into real-world usage, like gaming and running everyday tasks and applications.
Obviously there hasn’t been a side-by-side comparison between the iPhone SE and Pixel 4a, as the latter has yet to be made official, let alone released. But the Apple phone is well optimized and if the Google phone follows the example set by the Pixel 3a, it should also offer a very smooth Android experience, even with a smaller chip.
As such, we still hope the Pixel 4a will provide a reasonably smooth experience when it arrives, probably sometime next month. We were expecting Google’s next budget phone long before, but it seems to have been delayed due to the chaos caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
When the Pixel 4a makes its debut, we expect to see a phone with a 5.8-inch screen that uses a piercing selfie camera and will potentially have a refresh rate of 90Hz. We only hope to see a rear camera on the Pixel 4a. But Google has likely updated it on its predecessor’s snapper and will use a large amount of computational photography to deliver impressive results.
A larger battery, potential wireless charging, and a rear fingerprint sensor will round out other notable specs of the phone. In short, it will have a more modern design, a larger screen, and potentially better photography capabilities than the iPhone SE, which will outperform the Pixel 4a in terms of performance.
Priced at $ 349, the Pixel 4a is also set to undermine the $ 399 iPhone SE. Of course, one phone offers a pure Android experience and the other will give you access to iOS 14. So there’s the point. that they don’t necessarily compete, but instead offer respective Android and iOS fans cheaper ways to experience their preferred mobile operating system. .
But with the impressively well-specified OnePlus Nord at £ 379 (about $ 482) also entering the fray, the Pixel 4a will face compelling Android competition when it arrives.
