Leaked Benchmarks of the ‘A18 Pro’ Equipped in the iPhone 16 Pro “MacBook Air in Your Pocket”

The first reliable benchmarks of Apple’s new A18 Pro chip have leaked out, and they suggest a significant performance boost, which should keep Apple at the top of the smartphone performance charts for the foreseeable future.

‘iPhone17,2‘ The Geekbench 6 listing shows the performance figures of the iPhone 16 Pro Max, namely the A18 Pro chip. The CPU score came out at 3,409 for single-core performance and 8,492 for multi-core performance. The GPU benchmark recorded 32,848 points in Metal API performance, which measures GPU compute tasks rather than 3D graphics rendering performance.

How does it compare to other phones? The A18 Pro boasts an 18 percent improvement in both single-core and multi-core performance compared to the general benchmarks of the A17 Pro in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The iPhone 15 Pro Max scored an average of 2,887 for single-core and 7,158 for multi-core in Geekbench 6. The iPhone 15 Pro Max’s GPU Compute score was 26,976, making the A18 Pro about 21 percent faster.

For reference, the M1 MacBook Air with eight CPU cores has a single-core score of 2,342 points and a multi-core score of 8,350 points. The single-core score is faster than all existing products.

• Topping the Android benchmark charts is the Galaxy S24 Ultra, with a single-core score of 2,145 and a multi-core score of 6,702. It’s no match for the A18 Pro.
• Even the Mac benchmark charts can’t match this single-core performance, with the M3 Max scoring 3,128 points. Thanks to its 14 cores, its multi-core score is close to 19,000 points.
• Similarly, the Intel Core i9-13900KS, which sits at the top of our PC processor benchmark charts, has a single-core score of 3,140 and a multi-core score of 21,802 (24 cores, 32 threads).

That means the iPhone 16 Pro models are faster than every processor on the market—desktop, laptop, phone, PC, and Mac—in single-core CPU performance as measured by Geekbench 6, and their multi-core performance is on par with a four-year-old laptop processor with two additional cores. The GPU also performs roughly the same as the M1 with eight GPU cores in compute tasks.

The iPhone 16 Pro offers the same RAM, GPU performance, and multi-core CPU performance as the M1 MacBook Air, while single-core CPU performance outperforms the M1 MacBook Air.

If this architecture is applied to the M series, the single-core score is expected to be around 3,500 points and the multi-core score is expected to be around 13,000 points for the 8-core processor. The 10-core GPU design seen in the MacBook Air is likely to record over 54,000 points. This is about 15% faster than the GPU of the M3.
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