With the arrival of a new round of iPhones comes a new round of Apple Silicon benchmarks, and we’ve just witnessed the very first look at a Geekbench result for the A18 chip, showcasing modest performance gains.
A new Geekbench result, uploaded earlier this morning, indicates a around 10% boost in single core performance compared to the A17 Pro, which is in line with what was expected. When introducing the A18 chip, Apple intentionally refrained from making direct comparisons with the A17 chip.
Interestingly, the multi-core result seems rather low, with a score comparable to that of the A16 Bionic chip and around 8% slower than the A17 Pro chip. It’s safe to assume that this is likely an anomaly, as Apple claims that the A18 chip in the iPhone 15 is supposed to be around 30% faster than the A16 chip. Something definitely seems off here, but we’ll update this article once proper multi-core results become available.
This Geekbench result comes from an iPhone17,3 model – and that identifier corresponds to the iPhone 16, rather than the Plus, Pro, or Pro Max. So ideally, this is the worst that it’ll get, and there’ll likely be even more promising results from the A18 Pro chip.
Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro yesterday at their “It’s Glowtime” keynote, featuring the brand new A18 and A18 Pro chips. These chips are based on a 2nd generation 3nm process, similar to the M4 chip that debuted in the iPad Pro earlier this year. The phones will be available for preorder this Friday, and will start arriving to customers on September 20th.
H/T: Tech God
