Early benchmarks of the iPhone 13's A15 Bionic chip have once again shown that Apple's phone has the performance to shatter even the best Android phone silicon.

New details claimed by Ice Universe and MacRumors reveal two interesting things about Apple's new silicon. First, the chip is still the most powerful mobile chip, according to Geekbench 5 results compared to benchmarks of Android phones using the Snapdragon 888. Second, Apple has managed to do this without changing the amount of RAM in the phone.

According to Geekbench Browser screenshots provided by Ice Universe, the iPhone 13 scored 1,734 in the Geekbench 5 single-core test and 4,818 in the multi-core test.

Compared to the iPhone 12 Pro Max, which recorded 1,603 and 4,111, this is a modest improvement over the year-old chip. Android phones, however, lag further behind. Samsung's Galaxy S21 Ultra, while powered by a Snapdragon 888 chip, managed only modest scores of 1,123 and 3,440.

This is to be expected, as Apple's in-house designed A-series chips have long outperformed chips such as Qualcomm and Samsung's Exynos line, at least in benchmark results. In practical terms, such performance has always made the iPhone ultra-smooth to use for a variety of tasks, even if some of its specs are inferior to those of Android phones.

However, this may change with the Samsung Galaxy S22. According to recently leaked benchmarks, the Exynos 2200 chip in development for Samsung's upcoming flagship phone scores incredibly high in graphical benchmark tests. Whether this will be reflected in the final product and in all use cases remains to be seen. However, Apple's A15 chip is likely to be a formidable competitor.

An interesting tidbit related to A15 performance is that Apple has not upped the RAM in the iPhone 13 series. Apple never publicly states how much RAM it uses in its phones, but fortunately this information was discovered by MacRumors in the Xcode 13 beta.

The strings within Xcode reveal that, like the iPhone 12 series, the base iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini use 4GB RAM, while the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max use 6GB RAM. These are fairly small amounts of memory compared to the typical 12GB RAM modules found in Android flagships. However, as the benchmarks show, it is clear that Apple does not need RAM to deliver screaming performance.

iPhone 13 range goes up for pre-order tomorrow - check out our best iPhone 13 pre-order deals - as the handset hits store shelves on Friday, September 24. We have yet to reach a verdict on the range of four handsets, but chances are we'll have to wait until the iPhone Based on how much we loved the 12 line, they're going to earn a place on our best phones list, unless the Google Pixel 6 makes an appearance and messes things up.