New Geekbench results show how much faster the iPhone 16’s A18 chip is

A new round of iPhones means a new round of Apple Silicon benchmarks, and we just got our first look at a Geekbench result for the A18 chip, showing modest performance gains.

The result, uploaded to Geekbench this morning, shows about 10% higher single-core performance compared to the A17 Pro, which is about what we expected. When introducing the A18 chip, Apple avoided direct comparisons with the A17 chip.

Interestingly, the multi-core result seems to be quite low, with a comparable result to the A16 Bionic chip and about 8% slower than the A17 Pro chip. It’s safe to assume that this is probably an anomaly, as Apple says the A18 chip should be about 30% faster than the A16 chip in the iPhone 15. There’s definitely something wrong here, but we’ll update this as soon as proper multi-core results are available.

This Geekbench result comes from an iPhone 17,3 model – and that identifier corresponds to the iPhone 16 and not the Plus, Pro or Pro Max. So ideally this is the worst that can happen and the A18 Pro chip will likely deliver even more promising results.

Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro at its “It’s Glowtime” keynote yesterday, featuring the brand new A18 and A18 Pro chips. These chips are based on a second-generation 3nm process, similar to the M4 chip introduced in the iPad Pro earlier this year. The phones are available for pre-order starting this Friday and will begin arriving to customers on September 20.

H/T: Tech-God