This year’s iPhone 16 Pro models could outperform the M1 chip, a new Geekbench result has suggested.
The Geekbench score, uploaded earlier this week, is linked to the iPhone 17.1, which is the designation for this year’s “Pro” models with the A18 Pro chip.
It offers a single-core score of 3429 and a multi-core score of 8790, marking an increase over last year’s Pro phones, according to Apple’s headline numbers from the Glowtime event.
However, aside from comparing it to last year’s iPhone, the A18 Pro seems to compare favorably to the M1, which debuted in Mac systems with the arrival of Apple Silicon.
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While of course the caveat is that this is a benchmark and not real-world testing, it’s interesting that the A18 Pro you’ll find in a device you can carry in your pocket is now starting to compete with Apple’s laptop and desktop chips (albeit from a few years ago).
With the M1 benchmarking around the 8300 for multi-core performance, the A18 Pro is clearly a hair more impressive, and while this may seem like an apples-to-oranges comparison to some, it shows how far Apple has come in just a few years – not to mention the rest of the industry keeping pace or closely following.
In case you missed it, Apple’s Johny Srouji has confirmed that the latest Apple iPhone models also have 8GB of RAM – just like the base M1 chip.