Xiaomi 11T Pro vs Apple iPhone 13 Pro
Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.67-inch Xiaomi 11T Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888) that was released on September 15, 2021, against the Apple iPhone 13 Pro, which is powered by Apple A15 Bionic. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.
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Key differences
Reasons to consider the Xiaomi 11T Pro
- Comes with 1905 mAh larger battery capacity: 5000 vs 3095 mAh
- Has a 0.57 inch larger screen size
- Supports higher wattage charging (120W versus 23W)
- Newer Bluetooth version (v5.2)
- Fingerprint scanner
- Slow-motion recording at 960FPS
- Uses a faster type of memory: LPDDR5 2750 MHz
- Has 33% more RAM: 8GB versus 6GB
- Has 2 SIM card slots
Reasons to consider the Apple iPhone 13 Pro
- The rear camera has a 3x optical zoom
- Better camera quality (According to DxOMark rating)
- Shows 22% longer battery life (23:32 vs 19:18 hours)
- Handles wireless charging up to 7.5W
- Delivers 26% higher peak brightness (1054 against 834 nits)
- Optical image stabilization
- Waterproof body (IP68 classification)
- 16% higher pixel density (457 vs 395 PPI)
Review
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Performance
CPU and memory performance (apps, system)
Gaming
Capabilities for playing modern games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
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Value for money (Beta)
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and testsDisplay
| Type | AMOLED | OLED |
| Size | 6.67 inches | 6.1 inches |
| Resolution | 1080 x 2400 pixels | 1170 x 2532 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 20:9 | 19.5:9 |
| PPI | 395 ppi | 457 ppi |
| Refresh rate | 120 Hz | 120 Hz |
| Adaptive refresh rate | No | Yes (10-120 Hz) |
| Max rated brightness | 500 nits | 1000 nits |
| Max rated brightness in HDR | 1000 nits | 1200 nits |
| HDR support | Yes, Dolby Vision | Yes, Dolby Vision |
| Touch sampling rate | 480 Hz | - |
| Screen protection | Gorilla Glass Victus | - |
| Screen-to-body ratio | 85.1% | 87.1% |
| Display features | - DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
- DCI-P3 |
| RGB color space | 97.5% | 99.8% |
| PWM | 490 Hz | 510 Hz |
| Response time | 3.4 ms | 4.8 ms |
| Contrast | ∞ Infinity | ∞ Infinity |
Screen space comparison
11T Pro
6.67″ (20:9 ratio) = 16.6 in2
iPhone 13 Pro
6.1″ (19.5:9 ratio) = 14.2 in2
~17% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
Design and build
| Height | 164.1 mm (6.46 inches) | 146.7 mm (5.78 inches) |
| Width | 76.9 mm (3.03 inches) | 71.5 mm (2.81 inches) |
| Thickness | 8.8 mm (0.35 inches) | 7.65 mm (0.3 inches) |
| Weight | 204 g (7.2 oz) | 204 g (7.2 oz) |
| Waterproof | IP53 | IP68 |
| Rear material | Glass | Glass |
| Frame material | Metal | Metal |
| Colors | White, Gray, Blue | Black, Silver, Gold, Blue, Green |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, in-button | No |
Screen-to-body ratio
Performance
| Chipset | Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 | Apple A15 Bionic |
| Max clock | 2840 MHz | 3230 MHz |
| CPU cores | 8 (1 + 3 + 4) | 6 (2 + 4) |
| Architecture | - 4 cores at 1.8 GHz: Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55) - 3 cores at 2.42 GHz: Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78) - 1 core at 2.84 GHz: Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1) |
- 4 cores at 2.02 GHz: Blizzard - 2 cores at 3.23 GHz: Avalanche |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | - |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Lithography process | 5 nanometers | 5 nanometers |
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 780 | Apple Neural Engine |
| Graphics | Adreno 660 | Apple GPU (5 cores) |
| GPU shading units | 768 | 640 |
| GPU clock | 840 MHz | 1338 MHz |
| FLOPS | ~1290.2 GFLOPS | ~1712.6 GFLOPS |
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
| Compute Score (GPU) | 4642 | 21903 |
| Single-core score | 1469 | 2450 |
| Multi-core score | 3730 | 6170 |
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
| CPU | 422281 | 311650 |
| GPU | 191899 | 389528 |
| Memory | 210319 | 136036 |
| UX | 315721 | 385319 |
| Total score | 1140220 | 1222533 |
| Samples | [28 tests] | [3 tests] |
3DMark Solar Bay
| Stability | - | 71% |
| Graphics test | - | 14 FPS |
| Section 1 | - | 19 FPS |
| Section 2 | - | 14 FPS |
| Section 3 | - | 9 FPS |
| Graphics score | - | 3765 |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Stability | - | 70% |
| Graphics test | - | 17 FPS |
| Graphics score | - | 2949 |
Recent User Tests
Xiaomi 11T Pro
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-10-16 (Horizon) | AnTuTu 12 | 1205405 |
| 📘 2026-09-02 -> Notezit | Geekbench 6 CPU | 1412 / 3348 |
| 📘 2026-08-18 (Soul) | AnTuTu 11 | 1210861 |
| 📘 2026-07-30 (Raffi) | CPU Throttle | 95% |
| 📘 2026-07-26 (hazlanmy) | AnTuTu 11 | 1192922 |
Apple iPhone 13 Pro
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-10-07 (Hoz4ik) | AnTuTu 11 | 1127460 |
| 📘 2026-05-21 (Amogoose_) | Geekbench 6 GPU | 21903 |
| 📘 2026-05-21 (Amogoose_) | Geekbench 6 CPU | 2475 / 6154 |
| 📘 2026-04-13 (sgynonj) | AnTuTu 11 | 1322345 |
| 📘 2026-03-02 (Vladi) | AnTuTu 11 | 1222533 |
Memory
| RAM size | 8 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory clock | 2750 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Channels | 4 | 2 |
| Storage size | 128 GB | 128 GB |
| Storage type | UFS 3.1 | NVMe |
| Memory card | No | No |
Software
| Operating system | Android 11 (Can be upgraded to Android 14) | iOS 15 (Can be upgraded to iOS 27) |
| ROM | HyperOS | - |
| OS size | 32 GB | 15.2 GB |
| OS updates | 3 years | - |
| Security updates | 4 years | - |
Battery
| Capacity | 5000 mAh | 3095 mAh |
| Max charge power | 120 W | 23 W |
| Battery type | Li-Po | Li-Ion |
| Replaceable | No | No |
| Wireless charging | No | Yes (7.5 W) |
| Reverse charging | No | No |
| Bypass charging | - | No |
| Fast charging | Yes (63% in 10 min) | Yes (60% in 30 min) |
| Full charging time | 0:20 hr | 1:38 hr |
| Web browsing | 07:37 hr | 09:39 hr |
| Watching video | 13:08 hr | 15:16 hr |
| Gaming | 05:09 hr | 05:20 hr |
| Standby | 85 hr | 107 hr |
General battery life
Main camera
| Matrix | 108 megapixels | 12 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 12032 x 9204 | 4032 x 3024 |
| Zoom | Digital | Optical, 3x |
| Flash | Dual LED | Dual LED |
| Stabilization | Digital | Optical |
| 8K video recording | Up to 30FPS | No |
| 4K video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 60FPS |
| 1080p video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 60FPS |
| Slow motion | 960 FPS (1080p) | 240 FPS (1080p) |
| Angle of widest lens | 120° | 120° |
| Lenses | 1) Standard: 108 MP 2) Ultrawide: 8 MP 3) Macro: 5 MP |
1) Standard: 12 MP 2) Telephoto: 12 MP 3) Ultrawide: 12 MP 4) Depth |
| Camera features | - Bokeh mode - Pro mode - RAW support |
- Bokeh mode - Pro mode - RAW support |
| Image resolution | 108 MP | 12 MP |
| Aperture | f/1.7 | f/1.5 |
| Focal length | 26 mm | 26 mm |
| Sensor | Samsung S5KHM2 | Sony IMX703 |
| Sensor size | 1/1.52" (≈ 0.66 inch) | 1/1.66" (≈ 0.6 inch) |
| Pixel size | 0.7 micron | 1.9 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus | Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) |
| Stabilization | Digital | Optical |
| Image resolution | - | 12 MP |
| Aperture | - | f/2.8 |
| Focal length | - | 77 mm |
| Sensor | - | Sony IMX713 |
| Sensor size | - | 1/3.4" (≈ 0.29 inch) |
| Pixel size | - | 1 micron |
| Stabilization | - | Optical |
| Image resolution | 8 MP | 12 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.2 | f/1.8 |
| Focal length | - | 13 mm |
| Sensor | Sony IMX355 | Sony IMX772 |
| Sensor size | 1/4.0" (≈ 0.25 inch) | 1/3.4" (≈ 0.29 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.12 micron | 1 micron |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Image resolution | 5 MP | - |
| Aperture | f/2.4 | - |
| Focal length | 50 mm | - |
| Sensor | Samsung S5K5E9 | - |
| Sensor size | 1/5.0" (≈ 0.2 inch) | - |
| Pixel size | 1.12 micron | - |
| Stabilization | Digital | - |
DxOMark main camera tests
Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
| Bokeh | 50 | 75 |
| Preview | 72 | 81 |
| Zoom | 61 | 119 |
| Samples | Photo samples of Xiaomi 11T Pro from DxOMark | Photo samples of Apple iPhone 13 Pro from DxOMark |
Selfie camera
| Megapixels | 16 megapixels | 12 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 4920 x 3264 | 4032 x 3024 |
| Aperture | f/2.5 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | 26 mm | 23 mm |
| Sensor | Omnivision OV16A10 | Sony IMX514 |
| Sensor size | 1/3.06" (≈ 0.33 inch) | 1/3.6" (≈ 0.28 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1 micron | - |
| Autofocus | No | Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Video resolution | 1080p (Full HD) at 60 FPS | 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS |
| Depth sensor (TOF 3D) | No | Yes |
DxOMark front camera
| Photo | 111 | 128 |
| Video | 137 | 143 |
Connectivity
| Wi-Fi standard | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) |
| Wi-Fi features | - Dual Band - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
- Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
| Bluetooth version | 5.2 | 5 |
| Bluetooth features | LE, HID, A2DP | LE, A2DP |
| USB type | USB Type-C | - |
| USB version | 2 | 2 |
| USB features | - Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
- Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
| GPS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
| NFC* | Yes | Yes |
| Infrared port | Yes | No |
| Number of SIM* | 2 | 1 |
| Type of SIM card | Nano | Nano |
| Multi SIM mode | Standby | - |
| eSIM support* | No | Yes |
| Hybrid slot | No | No |
| LTE Cat* | 18 | 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
Sound
| Speakers | Stereo | Stereo |
| Headphone audio jack | No | No |
| FM radio | No | No |
| Dolby Atmos | Yes | Yes |
Speakers test
Max loudness
Other
| Category | Flagship | Flagship |
| Announced | September 2021 | September 2021 |
| Release date | September 2021 | September 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $650 | $1000 |
| Successor | - Xiaomi 15T Pro | - Apple iPhone 17 Pro |
| SAR (head) | - | 0.99 W/kg |
| SAR (body) | - | 0.98 W/kg |
| Sensors | - Barometer - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
- Barometer - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Face recognition sensor |
| Bundled charger | Yes, 120 W | - |
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.
Conclusion
After analyzing all the data, we think that the Apple iPhone 13 Pro is definitely a better buy.
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