Apple’s A18 Professional Leaked Benchmark Rating Hints at Vastly Improved Single-Core Efficiency

Apple’s iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max are anticipated to debut this 12 months with a brand new A18 Professional chip underneath the hood, and the corporate’s purported cellular processor may deliver notable efficiency upgrades over its predecessor — the A17 Professional — which powers the iPhone 15 Professional fashions, in accordance with a leaked benchmark rating. The A18 Professional may supply higher single-core efficiency than Qualcomm’s purported Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip, whereas the latter is tipped to supply higher multi-core efficiency.

In response to a publish on X (previously Twitter) by person Nguyen Phi Hung (@negativeonehero), Apple’s hexa-core A18 Professional chip scores 3,500 factors on the single-core take a look at and eight,200 on the multi-core take a look at on Geekbench 6. Compared, the current-generation iPhone 15 Professional Max with an A17 Professional chip scores 2,898 factors and seven,201 factors on the single-core and multi-core exams, respectively.

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In the meantime, benchmarks for the purported Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 — anticipated to succeed the just lately unveiled Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip by the top of 2024 — just lately leaked by the identical person present the processor scoring 2,845 factors within the single-core take a look at and a whopping 10,628 factors within the multi-core take a look at.

Because it stands, the A18 Professional may supply a 20.77 % enhance in single-core efficiency over its predecessor, whereas the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip may leapfrog Apple’s chip in multi-core efficiency. In truth, the leaked A18 Professional single-core Geekbench 6 rating is larger than that of the 16-inch MacBook Professional (3,230 factors) launched in late 2023 with an M3 chip.

Nevertheless, it is too early to name these benchmarks dependable — the iPhone 16 Professional fashions aren’t anticipated till Q3 2024, whereas flagship Android telephones with the rumoured Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip aren’t prone to debut till the final quarter. There’s additionally no strategy to confirm if these benchmark scores are correct, as they don’t seem to be revealed on Geekbench’s web site.

Till final 12 months, Apple launched two ‘Professional’ iPhone fashions with the most recent cellular processor, whereas two fashions can be geared up with the chip from the earlier 12 months’s high-end iPhone. In 2023, Apple geared up the iPhone 15 fashions with a 4nm A16 Bionic processor, whereas the iPhone 15 Professional fashions got here with the 3nm A17 Professional chip. It stays to be seen whether or not Apple releases the iPhone 16 fashions with a ‘Bionic’ processor whereas the Professional mannequin will get the purported A18 Professional chip.