OnePlus 9 Pro vs Apple iPhone 14 Pro

63 out of 100
OnePlus 9 Pro
VS
76 out of 100
Apple iPhone 14 Pro

Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.7-inch OnePlus 9 Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888) that was released on March 23, 2021, against the Apple iPhone 14 Pro, which is powered by Apple A16 Bionic and came out 1 year and 6 months after. 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 OnePlus 9 Pro
  • Has a 0.6 inch larger screen size
  • Comes with 1300 mAh larger battery capacity: 4500 vs 3200 mAh
  • Supports higher wattage charging (65W versus 23W)
  • The rear camera has a 3.3x optical zoom
  • Fingerprint scanner
  • Has 33% more RAM: 8GB versus 6GB
  • Slow-motion recording at 480FPS
  • 14% higher pixel density (525 vs 460 PPI)
  • Reverse charging feature
  • CPU with a higher amount of cores (+2)
Reasons to consider the Apple iPhone 14 Pro
  • Delivers 106% higher peak brightness (1790 against 867 nits)
  • Better camera quality (According to DxOMark rating)
  • Shows 11% longer battery life (24:20 vs 21:58 hours)
  • Newer Bluetooth version (v5.3)
  • 27% better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (1501K versus 1185K)
  • The phone is 1 year and 6 months newer
  • 93% faster in single-core GeekBench 6 test: 2961 and 1537 points
  • The front-facing camera can record video at 4K

Review

Evaluation of OnePlus 9 Pro and Apple iPhone 14 Pro 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
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8 / 128 GB
VS
6 / 128 GB
105.8
(Excellent)
Value Index
83.0
(Good)

Tests and specifications

Comparison table of technical specifications and tests

Display

Type AMOLED OLED
Size 6.7 inches 6.1 inches
Resolution 1440 x 3216 pixels 1179 x 2556 pixels
Aspect ratio 20:9 19.5:9
PPI 525 ppi 460 ppi
Refresh rate 120 Hz 120 Hz
Adaptive refresh rate Yes Yes (1-120 Hz)
Max rated brightness 500 nits 2000 nits
Max rated brightness in HDR 1300 nits 1600 nits
HDR support Yes, HDR10+ Yes, Dolby Vision
Touch sampling rate 240 Hz -
Screen protection Corning Gorilla Glass 5 -
Screen-to-body ratio 90.2% 86.6%
Display features - DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
- DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
Display tests
RGB color space 97.8% 99.8%
PWM 192 Hz 240 Hz
Response time 41.5 ms 1 ms
Contrast ∞ Infinity ∞ Infinity
Screen space comparison
OnePlus 9 Pro
6.7″ (20:9 ratio) = 16.8 in2
iPhone 14 Pro
6.1″ (19.5:9 ratio) = 14.2 in2
~18% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
867 nits
1790 nits
Sources: NotebookCheck [3], [4]

Design and build

Height 163.2 mm (6.43 inches) 147.5 mm (5.81 inches)
Width 73.6 mm (2.9 inches) 71.5 mm (2.81 inches)
Thickness 8.7 mm (0.34 inches) 7.85 mm (0.31 inches)
Weight 197 g (6.95 oz) 206 g (7.27 oz)
Waterproof IP68 IP68
Rear material Glass Glass
Frame material Metal Metal
Colors White, Black, Green Black, Silver, Gold, Purple
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display No
Screen-to-body ratio
90.2%

Performance

Chipset specifications of OnePlus 9 Pro and Apple iPhone 14 Pro
SoC
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Apple A16 Bionic
Max clock 2840 MHz 3460 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: Sawtooth
- 2 cores at 3.46 GHz: Everest
L3 cache 4 MB -
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Lithography process 5 nanometers 4 nanometers
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 Apple Neural Engine
GPU
Graphics Adreno 660 5 core Apple GPU
GPU shading units 768 640
GPU clock 840 MHz 1398 MHz
FLOPS ~1290.2 GFLOPS ~1789.4 GFLOPS

Benchmarks

Benchmark comparison of OnePlus 9 Pro and Apple iPhone 14 Pro
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
2961
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
7133
Compute Score (GPU)
Compute Score (GPU) - 23942
Single-core score 1537 2961
Multi-core score 3989 7133
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
1185805
1501273
CPU 437275 382796
GPU 236949 467517
Memory 195660 178501
UX 315921 472459
Total score 1185805 1501273
Samples [9 tests] [7 tests]
3DMark Solar Bay
Stability - 77%
Graphics test - 16 FPS
Section 1 - 20 FPS
Section 2 - 16 FPS
Section 3 - 12 FPS
Graphics score - 4289
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
3340
Stability 56% 72%
Graphics test 9 FPS 20 FPS
Graphics score 1527 3340
Sources: 3DMark [5], [6]
PCMark 3.0
Web score 10265 -
Video editing 6204 -
Photo editing 26249 -
Data manipulation 9595 -
Writing score 14324 -

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
OnePlus 9 Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-15 (Md Taief Khan)AnTuTu 121321279
📘 2026-10-12 (Executedream)AnTuTu 121200645
📘 2026-08-14 (Marchi1962)Geekbench 6 CPU1537 / 3989
📘 2026-08-14 (Marchi1962)AnTuTu 111253342
📘 2026-02-21 (Mete kaan)AnTuTu 111207152
Apple iPhone 14 Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-15 (Tannery)AnTuTu 111335615
📘 2026-09-26 (Peltsi74)AnTuTu 111477304
📘 2026-09-21 (Атомная бомба)AnTuTu 111772840
📘 2026-08-31 (LORDroid)AnTuTu 111445126
📘 2026-08-16 (Ronaldo)AnTuTu 111626008

Memory

RAM
RAM size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5
Memory clock 2750 MHz -
Channels 4 4
Storage
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 16 (Can be upgraded to iOS 27)
ROM OxygenOS 13 -
OS size 16 GB -
OS updates - 6 years
Security updates - 6 years

Battery

Capacity 4500 mAh 3200 mAh
Max charge power 65 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) No
Bypass charging - No
Fast charging Yes (100% in 32 min) Yes (60% in 30 min)
Full charging time 0:32 hr 1:41 hr
Battery life tests
Web browsing 08:24 hr 09:41 hr
Watching video 12:07 hr 16:03 hr
Gaming 04:56 hr 05:38 hr
Standby 116 hr 112 hr
General battery life
21:58 hr
24:20 hr

Main camera

Matrix 48 megapixels 48 megapixels
Image resolution 8000 x 6000 8064 x 6048
Zoom Optical, 3.3x Optical, 3x
Flash Dual LED Dual LED
Stabilization Optical Optical
8K video recording Up to 30FPS No
4K video recording Up to 120FPS Up to 60FPS
1080p video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 60FPS
Slow motion 480 FPS (720p) 240 FPS (1080p)
Angle of widest lens 140° 120°
Lenses 1) Standard: 48 MP
2) Telephoto: 8 MP
3) Ultrawide: 50 MP
4) Depth: 2 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 48 MP 48 MP
Aperture f/1.8 f/1.8
Focal length 23 mm 24 mm
Sensor Sony IMX789 Sony IMX803
Sensor size 1/1.43" (≈ 0.7 inch) 1/1.28" (≈ 0.78 inch)
Pixel size 1.12 micron 1.22 micron
Autofocus Laser autofocus Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel)
Stabilization Optical Optical
Telephoto lens
Image resolution 8 MP 12 MP
Aperture f/2.4 f/2.8
Focal length 77 mm 77 mm
Sensor Omnivision OV08A10 Sony IMX713
Sensor size 1/4.4" (≈ 0.23 inch) 1/3.5" (≈ 0.29 inch)
Pixel size 1 micron 1 micron
Stabilization Optical Optical
Ultra-wide lens
Image resolution 50 MP 12 MP
Aperture f/1.8 f/2.2
Focal length 14 mm 13 mm
Sensor Sony IMX766 Sony IMX633
Sensor size 1/1.56" (≈ 0.64 inch) 1/2.55" (≈ 0.39 inch)
Pixel size 1 micron 1.4 micron
Stabilization Digital Digital

DxOMark main camera tests

Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
Bokeh 65 80
Preview 60 91
Zoom 110 139
Samples Photo samples of OnePlus 9 Pro from DxOMark Photo samples of Apple iPhone 14 Pro from DxOMark

Selfie camera

Megapixels 16 megapixels 12 megapixels
Image resolution 4920 x 3264 4032 x 3024
Aperture f/2.0 f/1.9
Focal length - 23 mm
Sensor Sony IMX471 Sony IMX714
Sensor size 1/3.06" (≈ 0.33 inch) 1/3.6" (≈ 0.28 inch)
Pixel size 1 micron -
Autofocus Phase autofocus Phase autofocus
Stabilization Digital Digital
Video resolution 1080p (Full HD) at 30 FPS 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) No Yes
DxOMark front camera
Photo - 139
Video - 154

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 5.3
Bluetooth features LE, A2DP LE
USB type USB Type-C -
USB version 3.1 2
USB features - Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
- Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
DisplayPort Yes Yes
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
NFC* Yes Yes
Infrared port No 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
81.1 dB
89.5 dB

Other

Category Flagship Flagship
Announced March 2021 September 2022
Release date March 2021 September 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $970 $999
Successor - OnePlus 15 - Apple iPhone 17 Pro
SAR (head) 0.99 W/kg -
SAR (body) 1.21 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 - Not included
*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 14 Pro is definitely a better buy.

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20 (90.9%)
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Total votes: 22

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