This 12 months’s Z60S Professional mannequin bears a placing resemblance to final 12 months’s Z50S Professional. We not too long ago acquired the brand new system, although, so we nonetheless discovered will probably be good to run some exams on it.

Earlier than we get to the precise benchmark exams, let’s overview 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 combination, together with Magic Eraser, a star sky algorithm and a 65:24 ultra-wide cinema format.

The chipset state of affairs 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 increased clocked on the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 contained in the older Z50S Professional. CPU-wise, each telephones are just about equivalent, 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 exams with some CPU benchmarks and GeekBench. As talked about, the Z60S Professional and Z50S Professional are on a degree enjoying discipline on this division. Wanting on the precise scores, the Z60S Professional has a slight edge, which is comprehensible since it’s a newer system, working Android 14 as an alternative of Android 13 on the time of testing and benefitting from numerous optimizations. Even so, the distinction is inside the margin of error, correctly.

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 an alternative of 256GB on our Z60S Professional overview unit.

Final however not least, we now have some extra GPU exams 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 pace. 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, however it’s nonetheless very not often that we see such a factor.