iPhone 16 leaks suggest Apple flagships could get major power boost for AI tricks

A need for speed

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We haven’t heard too much in the way ofiPhone 16rumors and leaks yet – the series isn’t expected until September, after all – but we do now have a hint at just how powerful the chipset insideApple’s flagship phones for 2024 is going to be.

As per tipsterNguyen Phi Hung(viaWccftech), the upcoming A18 Pro chip is scoring 3,500 in single-core tests and 8,200 in multi-core tests (where multiple tasks are carried out in parallel) on the standard Geekbench 6 software.

It’s definitely the former of those two figures that’s the most impressive: a single-core score that high puts it some 14% ahead ofApple’s own M3 chipsand around 23% faster than predicted scores for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 (due later this year and likely to power multiple flagship Android devices).

The multi-core scores are less impressive – by this benchmark, theSnapdragon 8 Gen 4is expected to be 29 percent faster. However, as Wccftech points out, the architecture design of the chips may be different, which will impact the overall efficiency and power draw of the processors once they’re actually inside handsets.

Apple A18 Pro GB6 score is said to be 3500/8200.January 30, 2024

Current models

Both the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max have an A17 Pro chip inside,which scores2,906 for single-core and 7,231 for multi-core, so you can see the sort of improvements that could be on the way – with the caveats that benchmarks only tell part of the performance story, and that development on the processor may not be finished yet.

The iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 Plus run the A16 Bionic processor meanwhile, so the cheaper iPhone 16 models might get the A17 Pro this time around. That said, we haveheard a rumorthat Apple might stick the same processor inside all of its 2024 iPhone models, so we’ll have to wait and see.

Other early iPhone 16 leaks that we’ve come across suggest that the new phones aregoing to get a new buttonfor capturing photos and videos, and that certain models might beupping the amount of RAMthat comes inside as well.

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If these leaked benchmark scores do turn out to be accurate, the iPhone 16 Pro and theiPhone 16 Pro Maxare going to be hard to beat in terms of performance – which may come in handy forall the AI featuresApple is rumored to be preparing.

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