The primary seemingly reputable benchmarks of Apple’s new A18 Professional chip have apparently leaked out, they usually present a wholesome enhance in efficiency that ought to maintain Apple on high of the smartphone efficiency charts for some time.
The Geekbench 6 itemizing for “iPhone17,2” means we’re trying on the efficiency numbers for an iPhone 16 Professional Max, and due to this fact the A18 Professional chip. The CPU rating reveals single-core efficiency of three,409 and multi-core efficiency of 8,492. The GPU benchmark, which measures Steel API efficiency for GPU compute duties and not 3D graphics rendering efficiency, got here in at 32,848.
How does that evaluate to different merchandise? It’s an 18 % enchancment in CPU efficiency, each single and multi-core, over typical benchmarks of the A17 Professional within the iPhone 15 Professional Max. That telephone averages 2,887 single-core and seven,158 mutli-core on Geekbench 6. The GPU compute rating for the iPhone 15 Professional Max is 26,976, making the A18 Professional round 21 % quicker.
For additional context, the M1 MacBook Air has a single-core rating of two,342 and multi-core of 8,350—with eight CPU cores.
The one-core rating is quicker than something on the market:
- The highest of the Android benchmark charts is the Galaxy S24 Extremely with a single-core rating of two,145 and multi-core rating of 6,702. Not even near the A18 Professional.
- Even the Mac benchmark charts can’t match this single-core efficiency, because the M3 Max has a rating of three,128. It’s multi-core rating of just about 19,000 owes to it having 14 cores.
- Equally, the PC processor benchmark chart tops out with the Intel Core i9-13900KS, which has a single-core rating of three,140 and multi-core rating of 21,802 (24 cores, 32 threads).
In different phrases, the iPhone 16 Professional fashions will sport quicker single-core CPU efficiency (as measured by Geekbench 6) than any processor in the marketplace—desktop, laptop computer, or telephone, PC or Mac—and multi-core efficiency that’s according to a laptop computer processor from 4 years in the past that has 2 further cores. Equally, the GPU performs about as nicely for compute duties as an M1 with 8 GPU cores.
That’s proper, the iPhone 16 Professional has the identical RAM, similar GPU efficiency, similar multi-core CPU efficiency, and far higher single-core CPU efficiency, than the M1 MacBook Air.
When this structure reveals up within the M-series, we are able to in all probability anticipate single-core scores of round 3,500 and multi-core rating of round 13,000 for an 8-core processor. A ten-core GPU design as discovered within the MacBook Air will seemingly rating 54,000 or extra, placing it about 15% quicker than the GPU within the M3.
