It’s not even been 24 hours since Apple announced the new iPhone 16 series, and we’ve already seen the first single-core and multi-core results for one of the newly revealed models. Unfortunately, the results are much lower than you’d expect from an A18 or A18 Pro, but there’s little cause for concern, as you’ll soon find out.
Apple’s M4 also showed some anomalies in early Geekbench 6 results, so the benchmarking app may be updated to reflect the iPhone 16’s real-world performance.
One of the newest benchmark listings on Geekbench 6 that was spotted by @jimmyjamesuk123 The X shows that the iPhone 16’s designation number is iPhone 17.3, indicating that it is indeed one of the models in Apple’s latest lineup. While the single-core score is decent, with the benchmark reporting a result of 3,114 points, the multi-core category surprised us more. After all, this number is slightly lower than what the iPhone 15 Pro Max achieved with its A17 Pro, but we may have an explanation for what’s really going on.
While it’s not confirmed whether it was the A18 and A18 Pro that were tested, the 4.04GHz clock speed highlights that it is one of those chipsets. Even the M4another mass-produced chipset on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process was operating at those frequencies. As for the low multi-core score, it’s likely because Geekbench 6 hasn’t been updated yet to provide an unbiased result for the iPhone 16. If you recall, when the M4 was officially announced, a Geekbench 6 result came out almost immediately, but the SoC had a lower clock speed than the M3.
The iPhone 16 is exhibiting the same issues now, which means we’ll have to wait a bit for the updated results to come in, which will no doubt give us a clearer picture on the multi-core end. Apple has said that the A18 found in the non-Pro models has a CPU that’s up to 30 percent faster than the A16 Bionic running in the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, so we’ll have to remain patient for the new scores to be published.