GoKawiilArchitectural enhancements and significantly higher clock speeds enable Apple's A20 Pro application processor (AP), used in the company's latest iPhones, to deliver not only a substantial generation-to-generation performance boost but also to outperform leading desktop CPUs from AMD and Intel by up to a whopping 32% in the single-thread Geekbench 7 benchmark, setting the record for the highest single-thread performance. While high-end PC CPUs still have more oomph for multi-threaded workloads, the tiny A20 Pro is still faster than mainstream laptop CPUs even when many threads are involved.
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Swipe to scroll horizontally Row 0 - Cell 0 A20 Pro A19 Pro A18 Pro A17 Pro A16 Bionic General specifications 2P+4E, up to 4.93 GHz 2P+4E, up to 4.26 GHz 2P+4E, up to 4.0 GHz 2P+4E, up to 3.77 GHz 2P+4E, up to 3.46 GHz Single-Thread 4006 3249 3082 2641 2405 Multi-Thread 11460 9016 8185 7050 6600
Apple's A20 Pro system-on-chip (SoC) delivers 4,006 points in single-thread and 11,460 points in the multi-thread Geekbench 7 benchmark, which represents a 23.3% higher ST performance and 27.1% higher MT performance compared to the immediate predecessor, the Apple A19 Pro, according to an early submission (which may or may not demonstrate performance of actual A20 Pro-based products, so take the results with a grain of salt).
Swipe to scroll horizontally Generation Single-thread Improvement Multi-thread Improvement A16 Bionic 2,405 — 6,600 — A17 Pro 2,641 9.80% 7,050 6.80% A18 Pro 3,082 16.70% 8,185 16.10% A19 Pro 3,249 5.40% 9,016 10.20% A20 Pro 4,006 23.30% 11,460 27.10%
The new SoC delivers the highest generation-over-generation performance improvement for Apple's smartphone processors in years and is currently the highest-performing mobile AP. Furthermore, the A20 Pro beats AMD’s 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D by 26% and Intel’s Core i9-14900KS by 32% in single-thread performance.
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Swipe to scroll horizontally Row 0 - Cell 0 A20 Pro Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5 (SM8850) Xring O3 Exynos 2600 (S5E9965) Dimensity 9400 (MT6991) Tensor G5 (GS501) Kirin 9050 Pro General specifications 2P+4E, up to 4.93 GHz 2P+6E, up to 4.74 GHz 2X+4P+4E, up to 4.36 GHz 1X+3P+6E, up to 3.80 GHz 1X+3P+4A, up to 3.62 GHz 1X+5P+2E, up to 3.78 GHz 1X+2P+4E+2LP, up to 3.10 GHz Single-Thread 4006 3047 2996 2694 2273 2011 1028 Multi-Thread 11460 10212 11777 10580 7745 5859 4794
When it comes to the single-thread Geekbench 7 benchmark, Apple's A20 Pro outperforms its closest rivals — Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5 (SM8850) and Xiaomi's XRing O3 — by 31.5% - 33.7%. In fact, both SM8850 and XRing O3 perform on par with Apple's two-years-old A18 Pro. The six-core A20 Pro also beats the eight-core SM8850 by 12.2% in multi-thread workloads in Geekbench 7 and offers roughly similar multi-thread performance to the 10-core XRing O3.
Swipe to scroll horizontally SoC Single-thread A20 Pro advantage Multi-thread A20 Pro advantage A20 Pro 4,006 — 11,460 — Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 3,047 31.50% 10,212 12.20% Xring O3 2,996 33.70% 11,777 −2.7% Exynos 2600 2,694 48.70% 10,580 8.30% Dimensity 9400 2,273 76.20% 7,745 48.00% Tensor G5 2,011 99.20% 5,859 95.60% Kirin 9050 Pro 1,028 289.70% 4,794 139.00%
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