Performance benchmark results show that the A18 Pro chip on the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max is not much better than the iPhone 15 launched last year, and is even inferior to Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra.
At in the early morning of September 10 (Vietnam time), Apple said that the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max duo will be equipped with A18 Pro, the most powerful chip on the smartphone market today.
Apple did not release detailed information about the A18 Pro chip, except that the chip is built on a 3nm process, has 6 processing cores, including 2 high-performance processing cores and 4 energy-saving processing cores.
Although users have not had the opportunity to experience the iPhone 16 Pro to be able to evaluate the power of the A18 Pro chip for themselves, however, it seems that the performance score of this chip has appeared on the Geekbench database, a specialized tool for scoring smartphone processing performance.
Information on the Geekbench application shows that the iPhone 16 Pro uses an A18 Pro chip with 6 processing cores, a maximum clock speed of 4.04GHz and 8GB of RAM (Photo: Geekbench).
Information from Geekbench shows that the iPhone 16 Pro, codenamed 17.3, uses a chip with a maximum clock speed of up to 4.04GHz and 8GB of RAM. However, the processing performance score of the A18 Pro chip on the iPhone 16 Pro is not as impressive as Apple claims.
Accordingly, the single-core processing score of the A18 Pro chip reached 3,114 points, while the multi-core processing test of this chip reached 6,666 points. The score of the A18 Pro is slightly higher than the A16 Bionic processor chip equipped by Apple on the iPhone 15, when the chip's scores reached 2,595 points in the single-core processing test and 6,651 points in the multi-core processing test.
However, when comparing the processing scores of the A18 Pro chip with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy chip on the Galaxy S24 Ultra and the Tensor G4 chip on the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL, the results are different.
The chip on the iPhone 16 Pro outperforms the Galaxy S24 Ultra in the single-core performance test, but fails the multi-core performance test (Photo: Geekbench).
Specifically, the single-core performance score of the A18 Pro chip is superior to the single-core processing capability of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy chip on the Galaxy S24 Ultra (2,206 points). However, in the multi-core performance test, the chip on the Galaxy S24 Ultra scored 6,802, higher than the A18 Pro's score of 6,666 in the same test.
This suggests that the chip on the Galaxy S24 Ultra will deliver better overall performance than the A18 Pro chip on the iPhone 16 Pro.
The A18 Pro chip on the iPhone 16 Pro is completely superior in processing capabilities to the Tensor G4 chip developed by Google on the Pixel 9 Pro XL (Photo: Geekbench).
However, the A18 Pro chip developed by Apple can completely defeat the new generation Tensor G4 chip developed by Google on the Pixel 9 Pro XL smartphone in both single-core and multi-core processing performance tests.
Specifically, the Tensor G4 chip achieved a score of 1,985 in the single-core performance test and 4,767 in the multi-core performance test. These scores are significantly lower than the scores achieved by the A18 Pro chip in similar tests.
However, all current assessments are still based on numbers, not on real-life experiences. To know how the actual processing speed of the iPhone 16 Pro compares to other high-end smartphones on the market today, we need to wait until after September 20, when Apple officially sells the iPhone 16 series, to get the answer.
