iPhone 18 Pro A20 Pro Geekbench: early scores top A19 Pro by ~22–28%
Unconfirmed Geekbench 6 listings for iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max show early A20 Pro CPU scores around 4,720 single-core and 12,600 multi-core—roughly 22–28% above A19 Pro—plus Metal gains near Apple’s 40% GPU claim.
Early, unconfirmed Geekbench 6 listings for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max appeared in the public database Thursday morning Pacific, giving the first third-party look at A20 Pro CPU and Metal performance ahead of Saturday’s pre-orders.
MacRumors reports the entries—and we’re treating them as early / unverified until more samples land and independent labs re-run them.
Early CPU numbers
Device (listing)Single-coreMulti-coreiPhone 18 Pro4,71912,677iPhone 18 Pro Max4,72512,575Both listings identify a six-core CPU clocked around 4.93 GHz. Versus typical A19 Pro results in iPhone 17 Pro, MacRumors puts the jump at roughly 21–23% single-core and 27–28% multi-core.
GPU / Metal
Early Geekbench 6 compute scores for the A20 Pro GPU are reported around faster than the A19 Pro’s GPU—broadly in line with Apple’s product-page claim of faster graphics and faster CPU versus A19 Pro.
