Heh, having a 120Hz screen doesn’t mean much if the CPU and GPU can’t actually keep up with it in real use.
A lot of these budget 5G phones are basically Dimensity 6xxx, Helio G99, G100, or G200 level performance with small tweaks around the modem and efficiency. At the end of the day, you’re still stuck with a Mali-G57 MC2 class GPU, which shows up across a lot of these chips anyway and thats the actual bottleneck.
It’s like bolting aero parts onto a naturally aspirated Corolla with either a 1.5L or 1.6L 4-cylinder engine and expecting it to match Ferraris and Porsches in a drag race. The surface specs look better, but the core hardware hasn’t really changed.
So when you line up G99, G100, G200 and similar entry Dimensity chips, it’s much of a muchness in real-world performance. Same general bracket, low-tier entry bracket, just different packaging and marketing.