Xiaomi 14 Pro vs Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max

79 out of 100
Xiaomi 14 Pro
VS
83 out of 100
Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max

Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.73-inch Xiaomi 14 Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) that was released on October 26, 2023, against the Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max, which is powered by Apple A17 Pro and came out 2 months before. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.

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Key differences

An overview of the main advantages of each smartphone
Reasons to consider the Xiaomi 14 Pro
  • 63% better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (2397K versus 1467K)
  • Supports higher wattage charging (120W versus 23W)
  • Has 50% more RAM: 12GB versus 8GB
  • Newer Bluetooth version (v5.4)
  • Slow-motion recording at 1920FPS
  • Fingerprint scanner
  • Compatible with the latest Wi-Fi 7 wireless networks
  • 13% higher pixel density (522 vs 460 PPI)
  • CPU with a higher amount of cores (+2)
  • Has a built-in infrared port
Reasons to consider the Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max
  • Delivers 71% higher peak brightness (1799 against 1054 nits)
  • Shows 25% longer battery life (31:37 vs 25:21 hours)
  • The rear camera has a 5x optical zoom
  • 40% faster in single-core GeekBench 6 test: 2974 and 2129 points

Review

Evaluation of Xiaomi 14 Pro and Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max crucial features
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
Scores with a red asterisk (*) are approximate and may change in the future as we gather more data.
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Value for money (Beta)

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12 / 256 GB
VS
8 / 256 GB
22.3
(Mediocre)
Value Index
15.6
(Bad)

Tests and specifications

Comparison table of technical specifications and tests

Display

Type AMOLED OLED
Size 6.73 inches 6.7 inches
Resolution 1440 x 3200 pixels 1290 x 2796 pixels
Aspect ratio 20:9 19.5:9
PPI 522 ppi 460 ppi
Refresh rate 120 Hz 120 Hz
Adaptive refresh rate Yes Yes (1-120 Hz)
Max rated brightness 3000 nits 2000 nits
Max rated brightness in HDR - 1600 nits
HDR support Yes, Dolby Vision Yes, Dolby Vision
Touch sampling rate 240 Hz -
Screen protection Xiaomi Longjing Glass -
Screen-to-body ratio 89.9% 89.8%
Display features - DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
- DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
Display tests
RGB color space 99.5% 99.8%
PWM 120 Hz 240 Hz
Response time 1 ms 1 ms
Contrast ∞ Infinity ∞ Infinity
Peak brightness test (auto)
1054 nits
1799 nits
Sources: NotebookCheck [3], [4]

Design and build

Height 161.4 mm (6.35 inches) 159.9 mm (6.3 inches)
Width 75.3 mm (2.96 inches) 76.7 mm (3.02 inches)
Thickness 8.49 mm (0.33 inches) 8.25 mm (0.32 inches)
Weight 223 g (7.87 oz) 221 g (7.8 oz)
Waterproof IP68 IP68
Advanced cooling Vapor chamber -
Rear material Glass Glass
Frame material Metal Metal
Colors Black, Silver, Gray, Green White, Black, Silver, Blue
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display No
Screen-to-body ratio

Performance

Chipset specifications of Xiaomi 14 Pro and Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max
SoC
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Apple A17 Pro
Max clock 3300 MHz 3780 MHz
CPU cores 8 (1 + 3 + 2 + 2) 6 (2 + 4)
Architecture - 2 cores at 2.27 GHz: Cortex-A520
- 2 cores at 2.96 GHz: Cortex-A720
- 3 cores at 3.15 GHz: Cortex-A720
- 1 core at 3.3 GHz: Cortex-X4
- 4 cores at 2.11 GHz: Sawtooth
- 2 cores at 3.78 GHz: Everest
L3 cache 12 MB -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Lithography process 4 nanometers 3 nanometers
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Apple Neural Engine
GPU
Graphics Adreno 750 6 core Apple GPU
GPU shading units 1536 768
GPU clock 903-1000 MHz 1398 MHz
FLOPS ~2774 GFLOPS ~2147.2 GFLOPS

Benchmarks

Benchmark comparison of Xiaomi 14 Pro and Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
2129
2974
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
6906
Compute Score (GPU)
13963
28374
Compute Score (GPU) 13963 28374
Single-core score 2129 2974
Multi-core score 6906 7533
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
14 Pro +63%
2397671
CPU 690713 374357
GPU 829399 463612
Memory 341008 184670
UX 536551 444831
Total score 2397671 1467470
Samples [9 tests] [7 tests]
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
14 Pro +14%
1589
Stability 89% 71%
Graphics test 12 FPS 10 FPS
Graphics score 1589 1391
3DMark Solar Bay
14 Pro +32%
8037
Stability 85% 73%
Graphics test 31 FPS 23 FPS
Section 1 36 FPS 29 FPS
Section 2 31 FPS 23 FPS
Section 3 25 FPS 16 FPS
Graphics score 8037 6089
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
14 Pro +24%
4526
Stability 83% 63%
Graphics test 27 FPS 21 FPS
Graphics score 4526 3655
Sources: 3DMark [5], [6]
PCMark 3.0
Web score 14546 -
Video editing 7908 -
Photo editing 31773 -
Data manipulation 14905 -
Writing score 20028 -
AnTuTu 11 Ranking List (#156th place)

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Xiaomi 14 Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-21 (Nipple Power)AnTuTu2320631
📘 2026-08-08 (Shionnnfu)AnTuTu2413075
📘 2026-08-05 (Sulaiman Samimi)AnTuTu2304066
📘 2026-04-21 (DecayCat)GeekBench CPU2127 / 6966
📘 2026-04-21 (DecayCat)AnTuTu2433153
Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-11 (Zabza)AnTuTu1599694
📘 2026-09-10 (elio)AnTuTu1445771
📘 2026-07-26 (Desss)AnTuTu1323415
📘 2026-06-11 (Zabza)AnTuTu1605482
📘 2026-06-06 (Qosn)AnTuTu1467470

Memory

RAM
RAM size 12 GB 8 GB
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5
Memory clock 4200 MHz 3200 MHz
Channels 4 4
Storage
Storage size 256 GB 256 GB
Storage type UFS 4.0 NVMe
Memory card No No

Software

Operating system Android 14 (Can be upgraded to Android 16) iOS 17 (Can be upgraded to iOS 26.5)
ROM HyperOS 3 -
OS size - 17.6 GB
OS updates 4 years 7 years
Security updates 5 years 7 years

Battery

Capacity 4880 mAh 4441 mAh
Max charge power 120 W 23 W
Battery type Li-Po Li-Ion
Replaceable No No
Wireless charging Yes (50 W) Yes (7.5 W)
Reverse charging Yes, (wireless) Yes
Bypass charging - No
Fast charging Yes (50% in 8 min) Yes (46% in 30 min)
Full charging time 0:18 hr 1:49 hr
Battery life tests
Web browsing 10:49 hr 12:36 hr
Watching video 16:30 hr 22:07 hr
Gaming 05:10 hr 06:58 hr
Standby 113 hr 139 hr
General battery life
25:21 hr
31:37 hr

Main camera

Matrix 50 megapixels 48 megapixels
Image resolution 8192 x 6144 8064 x 6048
Zoom Optical, 3.2x Optical, 5x
Flash Dual LED Dual LED
Stabilization Optical 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 1920 FPS (720p) 240 FPS (1080p)
Angle of widest lens 115° 120°
Lenses 1) Standard: 50 MP
2) Telephoto: 50 MP
3) Ultrawide: 50 MP
1) Standard: 48 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
Standard lens
Image resolution 50 MP 48 MP
Aperture f/1.4 - 4.0 f/1.8
Focal length 23 mm 24 mm
Sensor Samsung Light Hunter 900 Sony IMX803
Sensor size 1/1.31" (≈ 0.76 inch) 1/1.28" (≈ 0.78 inch)
Pixel size 1.2 micron 1.22 micron
Autofocus Laser autofocus Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel)
Stabilization Optical Optical
Telephoto lens
Image resolution 50 MP 12 MP
Aperture f/2.0 f/1.78 - 2.8
Focal length 75 mm 120 mm
Sensor Samsung S5KJN1 Sony IMX913
Sensor size 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) 1/3.06" (≈ 0.33 inch)
Pixel size 0.64 micron 1.12 micron
Stabilization Optical Optical
Ultra-wide lens
Image resolution 50 MP 12 MP
Aperture f/2.2 f/2.2
Focal length 14 mm 13 mm
Sensor Samsung S5KJN1 Sony IMX633
Sensor size 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) 1/2.55" (≈ 0.39 inch)
Pixel size 1.12 micron 1.4 micron
Stabilization Digital Digital

DxOMark main camera tests

Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
Bokeh - 80
Preview - 86
Zoom - 142
Samples - Photo samples of Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max from DxOMark

Selfie camera

Megapixels 32 megapixels 12 megapixels
Image resolution 6528 x 4896 4032 x 3024
Aperture f/2.0 f/1.9
Focal length 22 mm 23 mm
Sensor Omnivision OV32B Sony IMX714
Sensor size 1/3" (≈ 0.33 inch) 1/3.6" (≈ 0.28 inch)
Pixel size 0.7 micron 1.12 micron
Autofocus Phase autofocus Phase autofocus
Stabilization Digital Optical
Video resolution 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) No Yes
DxOMark front camera
Photo - 145
Video - 156

Connectivity

Wi-Fi standard Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) Wi-Fi 6E (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax)
Wi-Fi features - Dual Band
- Wi-Fi MiMO
- 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 5.4 5.3
Bluetooth features LE LE
USB type USB Type-C USB Type-C
USB version 3.2 3.2
USB features - Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
- Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
DisplayPort Yes, DP 1.2 Yes
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
NFC* Yes Yes
Infrared port Yes No
Network
Number of SIM* 2 -
Type of SIM card Nano eSIM
Multi SIM mode Standby -
eSIM support* Yes Yes
Hybrid slot No No
LTE Cat* 20 20
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
90.5 dB
92.3 dB

Other

Category Flagship Flagship
Announced October 2023 September 2023
Release date October 2023 September 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $1100 $1199
Successor - Xiaomi 15 Pro - Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max
SAR (head) - 0.98 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 Not included
Further details
Notes on 14 Pro:
    - New Longjing Glass is used. The frame can be either aluminum or titanium, with a weight difference of 7 grams.
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.

Conclusion

If the camera, battery life, and software are more important to you, then choose the Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max. But if the gaming and connectivity are more of a priority – go for the Xiaomi 14 Pro.

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Iphone lover August 13, 2024 at 05:27 AM
if money is not an issue both phone are great, but it's clear on spec sheet that xiaomi 14 pro provide same specs like iphone (even better in some section like charging speed).
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Yang November 26, 2023 at 02:50 AM
Whether in terms of game performance or battery life charging, Xiaomi 14 is indisputable.
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GTG November 3, 2023 at 01:46 AM
Everything about the Xiaomi is impressive, except for the HyperOS. The performance is at its peak, but why did they have to reproduce elements of the iOS interface to release something new?
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Unknown October 27, 2023 at 10:48 PM
When you see Xiaomi and its capabilities and its prices compared to the iPhone, you say thank you, God
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