Apple's latest A18 (non-Pro) application processor for smartphones not only challenges AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X and Apple's M4 in single-thread workloads in Geekbench 6 , but it seemingly beats all previous-generation flagship CPUs for desktops and laptops. But when it comes to multi-thread, the limited amount of cores certainly makes an impact on performance.
Apple's vanilla A18 processor packs two high-performance cores
A new round of iPhones means a new round of Apple Silicon benchmarks, and we’ve just gotten our first look at a for the A18 chip, showcasing modest performance gains.
Update: New Geekbench results from the iPhone 16 Pro Max paint a much more promising picture of the A18 chip, showcasing proper multi-core results. You can read about that here , but otherwise the original post is below.
The result, uploaded to earlier this morning, showcases around a 10% boost
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For the last few years, Apple has introduced a new chip only in its iPhone Pro models. But that changed yesterday , when the entire iPhone 16 lineup received the brand new A18 line of chips. The iPhone 16 gets an A18 and the iPhone 16 Pro an A18 Pro. But what’s the difference really? Here’s the one thing the iPhone 16 is missing.
Apple’s A18 chip line is enabled by a second-generation 3
In brief: The iPhone 16 series is finally here, and with it comes two new powerhouse chipsets – the A18 and the A18 Pro, which Apple claims bring generational leaps in performance and efficiency. The non-Pro variant is particularly interesting since the improvements are significant over the non-Pro iPhone 15 models.
Let's dive into the A18 Pro
Apple's next iPhone chip is the A18, powering the new suite of smartphones and Apple's first lineup touting Apple Intelligence features, created specifically for the iPhone 16.
The new chip, based on TSMC's second-gen 3-nanometer technology, combines two performance cores, four efficiency cores, and a 16-core neural engine, which Apple says is twice as fast as previous chips for machine learning. It also boasts 17% more system