The top 3 most powerful phones of 2025. | Image by PhoneArena
The top spot is occupied by the RedMagic 11 Pro. It’s a beast of a phone, scoring 11,638 points in the Geekbench 6 multicore test, the highest result any phone has managed so far. The secret behind this result is the alien-looking liquid-cooling system on the phone that allows the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Elite to run cooler and faster.
The second place belongs to the Nubia Z80 Ultra, the Geekbench single score of this phone ties with the iPhone 17 Pro Max, but the multicore result blows Apple’s flagship out of the water. Third place goes to the much more popular and even available in the States OnePlus 15.
The latest OnePlus flagship comes with a sophisticated vapor chamber cooling system, which shows in the raw synthetic benchmarks, again beating all the latest Apple flagship phones when it comes to multicore CPU performance.
The most impactful phones of 2025 aren’t the most powerful. | Image by PhoneArena” 
