Very nice results!! All kudos to Benedikt. Be sure to link him to your results via Twitter; I can’t as I am no longer on Twitter.
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UPDATE: Reply from Benedikt
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Good news! In the last year things have gotten a lot better!
Snapdragon 835, Android / Chrome circa June 2017
Snapdragon 845, Android / Chrome circa June 2018
Note this is Speedometer 1.0 to keep the comparison apples to apples. Between the respectable hardware bump (finally) and major Chrome/Android JS improvements, we’re looking at 2x improvement. Vastly overdue… but I’ll take it!
This is finally iPhone 6s territory which I’d call certainly fast enough for native Discourse performance.
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Using the newer more accurate (but lower) Speedometer 2.0 numbers here:
OnePlus 5 — Snapdragon 835 — 33.1
OnePlus 6 — Snapdragon 845 — 49.4
Xiaomi 9 — Snapdragon 855 — 68.5
These are of course quite far from iOS hardware numbers, kind of vaguely iPhone 7-ish. For comparison this iPad Pro gets 137.5 and the iPhone 11 gets around 150.
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For comparison indicating that not all Snapdragon 835’s are the same:
Google Pixel 2 XL — Snapdragon 835 — 24.6
Updated to Android 10, full charge, plugged into mains after clean restart and waiting 5 minutes (so the phone isn’t busy starting).
The phone was originally released 23 months ago (Oct. 2017) and discontinued less than 6 months ago (April 2019).
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Mine was tested months ago, closer to the time the hardware was originally made available. Ditto for the other model. The Xiaomi was tested yesterday 
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LG ThinQ G7 — Snapdragon 845 — 52.6
Chrome 77.0 Android 9, Speedometer 2
Gonna close this out with a bang
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878515
The Snapdragon 865 gets around 80-85 here, compared to…
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I’ve seen strong improvements on Edge Canary on desktop though. i5-8265U that limits to 75-85 on stable Chrome v80, now hits 110 (+30%, on v84).
It mainly seems to be doing less work, since Intel Power Gadget doesn’t really show drastically different ‘CPU Util%’ (I’m guessing how many instructions could be retired by the execution units)
Not sure how this translates to ARM. Fingers crossed.
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Desktop isn’t really a problem, we have massive amounts of perf. Improvements to Android are enormous though because of the weakness of the Qualcomm SoCs! Are you seeing any canary improvements on Android? 
Honestly iPhone 7 (855) and iPhone 8 / X performance (865) isn’t too bad on the Android side. It’s certainly “enough” from a Discourse perspective. It won’t blow you away but it’s totally competent.
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My Meta PWA is running under 64-bits already 
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Note that you’re still looking at slightly-better-than-iPhone-7 perf on any new Android device, courtesy of Qualcomm. That is indeed an adequate level of performance for Discourse …
… but it is also … four years behind.
Also, data confirmed with my Xiaomi Mi 9 (Snapdragon 855) Android device, updated to latest everything:
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Retesting this device now on Android 11, latest updates - now 22
And now the latest high-end phone from Google…
Google Pixel 5 - Snapdragon 765G - 25.5
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Wow. That iPhone 12 Pro outperforms my fairly fancy new desktop with Core™ i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz and a GPU (don’t know if that matters). That’s crazy.
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Scores above 140 don’t really matter too much, if that helps … there’s a reason the graph “maxes out” at 140.
It’s the scores at ~70 and even lower that need some lovin’. And 70 is adequate for Discourse, for sure.
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Retesting the Google Pixel 5 (same device) - 11 months later:
Gone from 25.5 to 31.2.
Latest (public) Android 11 OS / Chrome / software updates applied.
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