The primary seemingly official benchmarks of Apple’s new A18 Professional chip have apparently leaked out, and so they present a wholesome enhance in efficiency that ought to hold 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 subsequently the A18 Professional chip. The CPU rating exhibits single-core efficiency of three,409 and multi-core efficiency of 8,492. The GPU benchmark, which measures Metallic API efficiency for GPU compute duties and not 3D graphics rendering efficiency, got here in at 32,848.
How does that examine 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 % sooner.
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 only-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 sooner single-core CPU efficiency (as measured by Geekbench 6) than any processor available on the market—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 effectively for compute duties as an M1 with 8 GPU cores.
That’s proper, the iPhone 16 Professional has the identical RAM, identical GPU efficiency, identical multi-core CPU efficiency, and far higher single-core CPU efficiency, than the M1 MacBook Air.
When this structure exhibits up within the M-series, we will 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% sooner than the GPU within the M3.