iPhone 16 Pro Could Face Serious Competition From Flagship Android Phones, Leaked A18 Pro Benchmarks Show

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Dimensity 9400 chipsets might outperform Apple's A18 Pro chip in multi-core performance, according to early benchmarks.

Written by David Delima | Updated: 26 March 2024 11:27 IST

iPhone 16 Pro Could Face Serious Competition From Flagship Android Phones, Leaked A18 Pro Benchmarks Show

The iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max (pictured) are expected to feature Apple's A18 Pro chip

Highlights

Apple's A18 Pro chip is likely to debut with the iPhone 16 Pro this year
The flagship chip could face competition from Qualcomm and MediaTek
These processors could offer vastly improved multi-core performance

Apple is expected to equip the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with an A18 Pro chip, the successor to the 3nm A17 Pro mobile processor that was introduced last year. A new leak suggests that the upcoming chip is expected to bring improvements to both single core and multi core performance, but the next flagship chips from Qualcomm and MediaTek could end up beating the A18 Pro in multi core performance, according to early benchmarks of all three processors.

According to details shared by X (formerly Twitter) user Mochamad Fanani (via WCCF Tech), Apple's A18 Pro chip scored 3570 points in the single-core test on Geekbench 6, while the multi-core score was 9,310 points. This represents an increase of around 23 percent and 28.66 percent, respectively, over the Geekbench scores for the A17 Pro that powers that iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.

While these early benchmark scores suggest that Apple has improved the performance of its upcoming iPhone processor in single-core and multi-core performance, it may face some serious competition from Qualcomm's next-generation chip. A previously leaked benchmark (via X: @negativeonehero) suggested that Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 has a single-core score of 2,845 points and multi-core score of 10,628.

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Similarly, leaked benchmarks of the purported MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chip suggest that the next processor from the Taiwanese chipmaker will have a single-core and multi-core scores of 2,776 and 11,739 points, respectively. The Dimensity 9400 is also said to have an AnTuTu score of 3,449,366 points, which is higher than the 3,133,570 points scored by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip.

Both the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Dimensity 9400 chips could offer higher multi-core performance than the A18 Pro, based on these leaked benchmark scores. It is worth taking these predictions with a grain of salt, as these are early leaks related to the performance of these chips, and the final performance — after optimising for efficiency — could be different for all three processors.

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Apple iPhone 15 Pro

KEY SPECS
NEWS

Display 6.10-inch

Processor Apple A17 Pro

Front Camera 12-megapixel

Rear Camera 48-megapixel + 12-megapixel + 12-megapixel

RAM 8GB

Storage 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB

OS iOS 17

Resolution 1179x2556 pixels

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Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Design
Display
Software
Performance
Battery Life
Camera
Value for Money

Good
Excellent display
USB Type-C
AAA gaming
Excellent all-round performance
Good primary and telephoto camera
Customisable Action Button

Bad
Gets hot quickly when stressed
Slow wired charging
Expensive

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Display 6.70-inch

Processor Apple A17 Pro

Front Camera 12-megapixel

Rear Camera 48-megapixel + 12-megapixel + 12-megapixel

RAM 8GB

Storage 256GB, 512GB, 1TB

OS iOS 17

Resolution 1290x2796 pixels

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