I just got my Fairphone 3+ recently, and noticed that apps feel a bit more sluggish than my old first generation Pixel XL. I ran Geekbench 5, and got a single-core score of 263 and a multi-core score of 1203 on the fairphone, but 323 and 964 respectively on the Pixel.
Is this normal? The Fairphone is running /e/OS Android 10 while the Pixel is running LineageOS Android 8.1, both of which I custom installed. Could it be a software issue or is that just how it is?
I noticed the same thing on mine. Setting the performance profile to ‘performance’ helped a bit.