Current king of the mobile chipsets is Samsung's Exynos 7420 chip. Qualcomm messed up with Snapdragon 810 SoC, and hope to fix things with Snapdragon 820. On the other hand, some manufacturers are slowly catching Qualcomm and Samsung in terms of performance. While there is a lot of room for improvements, especially in the power consumption area, manufacturers are mostly focused on raw performance.

A number of next-generation chipsets have visited the Geekbench benchmark, including NVIDIA Denver 2, Exynos M1, Apple A9 and A9X, Huawei Kirin 950, and LG NUCLUN 2, and they were posted on a graph for comparison. The best chipset in the single-core test is the NVIDIA Denver 2, which scored 2,599, compared to the 1,486 of Exynos 7420. The multi-core test was owned by Samsung's Exynos M1 with 7,497. The worst multi-core chipset was Apple A9, scoring only 3,569, which is even lower than the current Exynos 7420.

If only manufacturers start competing in the power consumption, so that new flagship smartphones can survive more than a day of light usage.