Early Apple A19 and A19 Pro CPU benchmarks showcase underwhelming performance improvements
Apple debuted the iPhone 17 phones yesterday alongside the A19 and A19 Pro chipsets that power them. As previously reported, the new chipsets are not expected to offer significant improvements in performance and early CPU benchmarks appear to confirm that.
As spotted on Geekbench, the Apple A19 Pro on the iPhone 17 Pro Max earns a single-core score of 3,895 and a multi-core score of 9,746. The A18 Pro on last year's iPhone 16 Pro Max scored 3,479 and 8,568 on those same tests, indicating around a 10% upgrade in CPU performance for the new chipset.
The standard iPhone 17 comes equipped with the A19 rather than the A19 Pro on its siblings. Last year's A18 was only slightly worse than the A18 Pro on the CPU side, and that appears to be the case this time out as well. The vanilla iPhone 17 scores 3,608 on the single-core test and 8,810 on the multi-core one. Compared to the iPhone 16 which scored 3,377 and 8,362 in our tests, the A19 and iPhone 17 look to be about 7% more powerful.
It's important to note that these are rather early benchmark listings for Apple's new releases. More verifiable scores can be expected to surface in the coming days, however, and we will eventually put all four iPhone 17 series models through our rigorous in-house tests. Till then, though, it appears that Apple has equipped its new chipsets with notable upgrades in departments outside of raw CPU performance.
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