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The iPhone 17 sequence has left the realm of mere rumor. Apple introduced its 4 new iPhones at yesterday’s “Awe Dropping” occasion—the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Professional, and iPhone 17 Professional Max.

All 4 use the corporate’s new A19 chip, although completely different fashions come geared up with completely different variations of it: The iPhone 17 makes use of the bottom mannequin A19, whereas the iPhone 17 Professional and 17 Professional Max use the A19 Professional. The iPhone Air has an A19 Professional, however it’s a “binned” chip. There is a prolonged clarification of what meaning, however briefly, the Air makes use of a weaker model of the A19 Professional, so it is not fairly as highly effective because the model you will discover on the Execs.

Whereas Apple incessantly touts how highly effective its latest iPhones are, they’re by no means all that particular about it, particularly throughout their massive keynote bulletins. The corporate likes to check the brand new iPhones to random older iPhones, like saying the iPhone 17’s A19 chip is 1.5 instances quicker than the A15 Bionic within the iPhone 13. However Apple would not normally put up the uncooked numbers to check efficiency instantly. For that, we flip to benchmarking.

Benchmarking exams supply a standardized approach of testing a chips’ CPU (central processing unit) and GPU (graphics processing unit), and evaluating their efficiency towards different chips. Geekbench is a well-liked choice for benchmarking, and exams a couple of various things: the efficiency of duties that require one core of the CPU; efficiency of duties that require multi-cores; and the “Metallic” check, that benchmarks GPU efficiency.

While you run a benchmark by way of Geekbench, your outcomes are posted to the location’s database. Meaning every time a brand new gadget is introduced, it is solely a matter of time earlier than benchmarking knowledge seems there for these units. As GSMArena experiences, it appears some A19 and A19 Professional exams have already been run. These exams give us an early take a look at the efficiency of the brand new chips, and an thought of how a lot Apple has improved them over earlier generations—no less than on paper.

Because the telephones, and iOS 26 itself, will not be formally out but, take these numbers with a grain of salt. With that mentioned, listed here are the preliminary outcomes.

iPhone 17

The A19, once more discovered within the iPhone 17, scored a 3,608 within the single-core check, and eight,810 within the multi-core check. That represents an 8% leap over the iPhone 16’s single-core rating of three,317, and a 7% leap over its multi-core rating of 8,198. The A19’s GPU scored a 37,014 on the Metallic check, a greater than 33% improve when in comparison with the iPhone 16’s rating of 27,702. The check outcomes present that the iPhone 17 has 8GB of RAM.

iPhone Air

The iPhone Air runs an A19 with a six-core CPU and a five-core GPU—one lower than the iPhone 17 Professional, as this can be a binned chip. GSMArena experiences that it scored a 3,674 within the single-core check and eight,824 in multi-core. That is not a lot increased than the usual A19, although the outcomes present Apple included 4 further gigabytes of RAM within the Air over the iPhone 17.

Turning to the GPU, the Air scored a 37,743 on the Metallic check. That represents an enchancment of slightly below 2% over the A19. When you’ll seemingly discover some features if you happen to’re coming from the iPhone 16, and even the 16 Professional (extra on that beneath) the Air is not going to outperform the 17 a lot—even with its binned A19 Professional.

iPhone 17 Professional

Whereas the iPhone Air’s binned A19 Professional chip appears barely improved over the iPhone 17’s A19 chip, the 17 Professional begins to point out some benefit—no less than in GPU. The A19 Professional within the iPhone 17 Professional scored 3,523 in single-score and 9,028 in multi-core. That is a decrease single-core rating, and solely a barely increased multi-core rating, which is definitely fascinating. In principle, the lower-performing A19 and A19 Professional chips might yield barely quicker leads to single-core duties, whereas the Professional might beat the bunch a bit in multi-core duties.

Nonetheless, issues get extra fascinating on the subject of the A19 Professional’s GPU—The chip achieved a Metallic rating of 44,342, 17% over the iPhone Air, and practically 20% higher than the iPhone 17. That is not all that stunning, seeing because the Professional has six GPU cores in comparison with the Air’s 5. Examine all that to the iPhone 16 Professional’s scores of three,447 in single-core, 8,576 in multi-core, and 32,673 in Metallic. It is solely a 2% bump in single-core and 5% in multi-core, however greater than 35% in Metallic. Not a foul achieve.

iPhone 17 Professional Max

If you would like the very best efficiency in an iPhone, the Professional Max is normally the mannequin to get. It appears the 17 Professional Max is not any exception: In accordance with these preliminary Geekbench outcomes, the 17 Professional Max’s A19 Professional chip acquired a 3,781 single-core rating, 9,679 multi-core rating, and 45,657 Metallic rating. These, after all, are the best scores of any of the iPhone 17 sequence. The one-core rating just isn’t dramatically increased than the opposite telephones, and the multi-core rating is not an enormous leap: Essentially the most dramatic distinction there may be between the iPhone 17 and the 17 Professional Max at slightly below 9%.

That mentioned, the Metallic rating is fairly spectacular. It is lower than 3% higher than the 17 Professional, however it’s practically 21% increased than the Air, and over 23% increased than the iPhone 17. We will see enhancements from the iPhone 16 Professional Max’s 3,430 single core, 8,502 multi-core, and 32,665 Metallic scores. That is 10% enchancment in single-core, practically 14% in multi-core, and practically 40% in Metallic. There isn’t any denying the 17 Professional Max is the cellphone to beat on the subject of graphics processing potential.

You may lookup any iPhone mannequin you need on Geekbench’s database and examine its scores to the iPhone 17 sequence’ early scores listed right here. Clearly, the older you go, the higher the features are going to be. For what it is price, evaluating the iPhone 17 to the iPhone 13 reveals a 71% achieve in single-core and 79% achieve in multi-core—not fairly the 150% enchancment Apple advertises. Maybe there’s one thing lacking from the early scores right here, or possibly Apple is utilizing a unique inside metric. We’ll simply must see when testers benchmark the launched iPhones operating the general public construct of iOS 26.