Qualcomm Crushed Its Rivals in AnTuTu? Not Quite — One MediaTek-Powered Phone Ruined It
Arkadiy Andrienko
The folks behind the AnTuTu benchmark shared the results for March and updated their Android performance ranking. The latest list features the usual chipset showdown, but this time with near-total Qualcomm dominance. Nine out of the ten spots went to Snapdragon-powered devices, and just one single MediaTek phone.
The top two spots, with a noticeable lead over the rest, went to the iQOO 15 Ultra and the OnePlus 15T. The first scored just over 4.17 million points, and the second around 4.16 million — both running on the brand-new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Third place is the one exception to the rule: the vivo X300 Pro with MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500, scoring 4,081,260 points. However, its gap from the leader was nearly 94,000 points.
Fourth place went to the realme GT8 Pro with 4,041,008 points, and fifth to the gaming-focused RedMagic 11 Pro+ (4,028,118). After that, the score density gets tighter, and the differences between neighboring models become smaller. Sixth is the iQOO 15 with 3,929,410 points, seventh is the Honor Magic8 Pro (3,847,437). Eighth goes to the Honor Magic8 (3,820,462), ninth to the Honor Win (3,802,483), and the OnePlus 15 rounds out the top ten with 3,801,551 points.
What stands out is the near-complete absence of last year’s leaders from other lineups, as well as the fact that all but one device use Qualcomm chips. MediaTek managed to hold onto just a single spot — but the Dimensity 9500 can still compete in raw performance: its score is higher than that of every smartphone from fourth place onward.
Looking at the bigger picture, AnTuTu once again confirms that Snapdragon currently dominates the high-end Android space. In real-world scenarios, a difference of a couple hundred thousand points isn’t always noticeable to the naked eye — but stability and thermal throttling can play a nasty trick on benchmark champions.
What do you think? Is chasing millions in AnTuTu still worth it these days, or is it time to start focusing on optimization and battery life? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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