Snapdragon 888 Plus shows up on Geekbench with an iPhone 12-rivaling score

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (pictured above) running the Snapdragon 888 chipset is the high-water mark for performance, but it could be outpaced by Qualcomm’s next chip, which may have just surfaced. A benchmark that may be of the Snapdragon 888 Plus appeared online in a Geekbench listing, and its results nearly blow the iPhone 12’s test scores away.

You can see the supposed Snapdragon 888 Plus (or Snapdragon 888 Pro, as it may be called) results for yourself over on the Geekbench database, showing a multi-core score of 3,704 – and while that doesn’t quite outpace the high-water mark of the iPhone 12’s 3,859, it does beat other Android phones released earlier this year packing the standard Snapdragon 888 like the OnePlus 9 Pro (3,630) and Asus ROG 5 Pro (3,679).

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