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Each generation of Apple’s new mobile chip brings a solid performance upgrade, and it looks like the A14 Bionic will be no different. In fact, the iPhone 12 should once again be the fastest phone on the planet.
The chip, which is set to power the new 2020 iPad Air and iPhone 12, just made its benchmarking debut, shared by well-known leaker Ice Universe on Twitter.
The Twitter snip cuts off the key information there, but if you expand the image, you’ll see that this test was taken in Geekbench 5 on the iPad. The numbers are the key, with a single-core score of 1,583 and a multi-core score of 4,198.
The first Geekbench 5 results of A14 appeared, 1583 single-core, 4198 multi-core, still the king. pic.twitter.com/HXMgEfjSuWOctober 3, 2020
For context, the iPhone 11 Pro scored 1,337 on the single-core portion of the test and 3,509. So the iPhone 12 could be 18% faster on a single core and almost 20% faster on multiple cores.
Assuming the iPhone 12 performs as well as the new iPad Air, it would blow all Android phones away. The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, which is powered by the latest Snapdragon 865 Plus chip, scored 985 and 3294 in Geekbench 5. That would make the A14 Bionic 60% faster in the single-core test and 27% faster in the multicore.
Compared to the current iPad Air, the A14 Bionic’s results are even more impressive and seem to confirm Apple’s speech at the launch event that the new iPad would be 40% faster than the previous version. A search in the Geekbench browser shows single-core scores of around 1,115 and multi-core scores in the 2,800 range for the third-gen iPad Air.
Of course, Geekbench 5 is just a performance measure, but it’s a good indicator that the A14 Bionic appears to be a very powerful chip.
While the iPad Air 4 has already been fully revealed and will be available to buy starting at $ 599 later this month, full reviews have yet to appear.
Along with the A14 chip, the iPhone 12 family will be the first Apple devices to benefit from 5G connectivity, with one or both ‘Pro’ versions rumored to inherit the LiDAR sensor from high-end iPad Pro tablets for better camera and AR performance. Rumors persist that the Pro models will also get the much-desired 120Hz display upgrade, but other forecasters insist that won’t happen this year.
In terms of pricing, a big leak emerged last week stating that the basic 64GB iPhone 12 (now known as iPhone 12 mini) will actually undermine the current iPhone 11 by $ 50 to $ 649. Pro models will cost more, starting at $ 999 for the 128GB model and going up to $ 1399 for the 512GB iPhone 12 Pro Max.
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