Apple launched the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max with the new A18 Pro chipset, which promises powerful CPU performance. The new CPU is based on the Armv9.2a architecture and features two SME units, also known as ML accelerators, for faster AI performance. And the Geekbench results show that Apple has indeed developed a powerful CPU.
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In Geekbench 6.3.0 which recently received support for SMEs, the A18 Pro chipset scores a whopping 3,409 points in the single-core test and 8,492 points in the multi-core test. Compared to last year's flagship A17 Pro CPU (2,950 single-core & 7,279 multi-core), the A18 Pro is 15.5% faster in single-core and 16.6% faster in multi-core performance.
Compared to the A16 Bionic, the A18 Pro is 28.8% faster in single-core and 23.7% faster in multi-core. Apple runs the A18 Pro's performance core at 4.04 GHz. This is the first mobile chipset to break the 4GHz barrier in a passively cooled device, apart from the Apple M4 powered iPad Pro which runs at 4.4GHz.
Meanwhile, a new Geekbench score of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 has surfaced from Digital Chat Station on Weibo, a well-known tipster. The upcoming OnePlus 13, which is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset (still on Armv8 without SME units) is said to score 3,236 in single-core and a whopping 10,049 points in multi-core. These are unprecedented numbers coming from a mobile SoC.
