The Sony Xperia X is powered by a Snapdragon 650 - Qualcomm's new and highly popular mid-range chipset. To be honest, we tend to prefer its 652 sibling.

Don't be fooled by their name, these are the true successors to the Snapdragon 810. They use the Cortex-A72 CPU core, faster and more powerful than the A57 it replaces. The Snapdragon 650 has two of them, the 652 has four, both add four Cortex-A53 cores for low-power needs.

Better still, the GPU is part of the Adreno 5 series, a 510 to be exact. It's miles ahead of the Adreno 405 that's used in lower-end Snapdragon 6-series chipsets. It even stacks up well against the Adreno 430 in the S810 chipset. Sony paired the chipset with 3GB of RAM, while some makers are slowly making their way to 6GB.

The Xperia X focuses on things like design, camera and audio. Sony also has the Xperia X Performance, which as you can guess from the name, offers a faster chipset - a Snapdragon 820, if you want more oomph than the S650 delivers. There are other advantages to the Performance model too, but that's a story for another time - for now, let's stick with benchmarking the S650.

GeekBench 3 (multi-core)

Higher is better

Meizu Pro 6

6427

Xiaomi Mi 5

5358

Sony Xperia Z5

4017

Sony Xperia X

3796

Sony Xperia M5 Dual

3554

LG Nexus 5X

3527

HTC One A9

3209

Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016)

3061

vivo X5Pro

2241

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

Xiaomi Mi 5

43

Sony Xperia Z5

25

Meizu Pro 6

18

LG Nexus 5X

17

Sony Xperia X

15

Sony Xperia M5 Dual

8.7

HTC One A9

6.7

vivo X5Pro

5.8

Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016)

5.7

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

Xiaomi Mi 5

30

Sony Xperia Z5

18

LG Nexus 5X

11

Meizu Pro 6

11

Sony Xperia X

9.2

Sony Xperia M5 Dual

4.5

HTC One A9

3.8

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

Xiaomi Mi 5

29

Sony Xperia Z5

19

LG Nexus 5X

11

Meizu Pro 6

11

Sony Xperia X

10

Sony Xperia M5 Dual

4.9

HTC One A9

4

Basemark X

Higher is better

Xiaomi Mi 5

33110

Sony Xperia Z5

23923

LG Nexus 5X

16609

Meizu Pro 6

15209

Sony Xperia X

15087

Sony Xperia M5 Dual

7780

HTC One A9

6617

vivo X5Pro

5091

Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016)

4947

Basemark OS 2.0

Higher is better

Xiaomi Mi 5

2180

Meizu Pro 6

1919

Sony Xperia X

1714

LG Nexus 5X

1591

Sony Xperia Z5

1482

HTC One A9

944

Sony Xperia M5 Dual

860

Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016)

833

vivo X5Pro

738

Basemark ES 3.1 / Metal

Higher is better