A benchmark score shows how a phone performs under a series of stress tests, letting you compare devices using a consistent measurement rather than marketing claims.
- A benchmark score comes from an app that pushes a phone to its performance limit through a set of tests, then converts the result into a number
- Scores are relative, not absolute. Each benchmarking app uses its own scale, so a score only means something when compared against another device tested on the same benchmark
- Two devices can only be meaningfully compared if they were tested using the same benchmark app, not two different ones
- Most benchmarks focus on hardware speed, covering areas such as processor calculations, RAM handling, graphics performance and, in some tools, web browsing speed
