This yr’s Z60S Professional mannequin bears a placing resemblance to final yr’s Z50S Professional. We not too long ago obtained the brand new gadget, although, so we nonetheless found out it is going to be good to run some checks on it.
Earlier than we get to the precise benchmark checks, let’s evaluation what has modified within the new mannequin. Regardless of the numerous bounce within the mannequin quantity, it’s extra of a facelift than a straigh improve. Nubia boosted the primary 35mm cam with a bigger sensor. It additionally launched some new AI options to the combo, together with Magic Eraser, a star sky algorithm and a 65:24 ultra-wide cinema format.
The chipset scenario is a bit bizarre. Whereas the Z50S Professional will get the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 chipset, the brand new Z60S Professional has to accept the marginally weaker Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The distinction between the 2 chips is small and appears principally confined to the GPU, which is a bit larger clocked on the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 contained in the older Z50S Professional. CPU-wise, each telephones are just about an identical, working the higher-clocked “AC” model of the Snapdragon chip. This features a major 3.36 GHz Arm Cortex-X3 core, accompanied by two 2.8 GHz Cortex-A715 cores, two 2.8 GHz Cortex-A710 and three 2.0 GHz Cortex-A510 ones.
Let’s kick off the checks with some CPU benchmarks and GeekBench. As talked about, the Z60S Professional and Z50S Professional are on a degree enjoying subject on this division. Trying on the precise scores, the Z60S Professional has a slight edge, which is comprehensible since it’s a newer gadget, working Android 14 as a substitute of Android 13 on the time of testing and benefitting from varied optimizations. Even so, the distinction is throughout the margin of error, appropriately.
AnTuTu is a way more compound benchmark, additionally including GPU, reminiscence and storage scores. Right here, we will see that the Z50S Professional has a slight edge over its successor. That is anticipated, given the marginally higher-clocked GPU. Plus, our Z50S Professional unit has 1TB of storage as a substitute of 256GB on our Z60S Professional evaluation unit.
Final however not least, we’ve got some extra GPU checks inside 3DMark. As anticipated, each units do nice on this benchmark. There’s a small distinction in efficiency between the pair once more, which favors the Z50S Professional, which has a better GPU clock velocity. Nonetheless, the distinction is hardly main.
As anticipated, the efficiency delta between the Nubia Z50S Professional and the Z60S Professional could be very small and solely detectable in artificial benchmarks. Nonetheless, it’s a bummer that the newer Z60S successfully will get a lesser chipset than its predecessor. It would not make any notable distinction in actual life, nevertheless it’s nonetheless very hardly ever that we see such a factor.