The battle for the best mobile SoC is between Apple A9, Huawei Kirin 950, MediaTek Helio X20, Samsung Exynos 8890 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. All chipsets are official except for the Exynos 8890 and according to new benchmarks, it will have very good performance.

And while Apple A9 chipset leads the single-core test, the king of the multi-core test is the upcoming Samsung Exynos 8890 chipset. It has scored around 7,400 points and the closest to it is MediaTek's Helio X20 with 6,500 points and Huawei's Kirin 950 with 6,400. What is interesting to see is the performance of Snapdragon 820, which scored around 5,300.