The A11 Bionic processor in the iPhone X and iPhone 8 made those phones the most powerful smartphones of 2017. While it’s difficult to directly compare performance between Android and iOS devices, even the fastest Android phones of today haven’t quite caught up to Apple’s best from last year.
Now, the A12 Bionic makes the iPhone XS even faster, widening the performance gap between Apple and everyone else. The iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max are clearly the fastest iPhones ever made, which also makes them the fastest phones ever made. Apple has managed to wring a little more battery life out of them, too.