As you may already know, Apple just launched its iPhone 17 series, along with the new iPhone Air. They will soon be able to pre-order, and while we wait, we’ve spotted a benchmark on Geekbench to give us a useful comparison of the processing power packed into the new 2025 smartphones.

Although the exact name isn’t displayed, the model ID suggests we’re looking at the iPhone 17 Pro. Confusingly, it is marked with the “iPhone18,1” model ID (the iPhone 16 Pro’s ID is “iPhone17,1” for reference). The smartphone runs on iOS 26 and is fitted with 12GB of RAM and features a 6-core processor, which we now know is the Apple A19 Pro chip.

iPhone 17 Pro benchmark appears on Geekbench

Assuming this is an iPhone 17 Pro based on the model ID, we can compare it to the existing user-submitted Geekbench 6 scores. The new benchmark gives us the CPU (A19 Pro) scores for single-core and multi-core; a separate GPU benchmark reveals the score for Apple’s Metal API.

An interesting detail you’ll notice is that the last-gen Pro model comes in slightly above the Pro Max. Both models use the same A18 Pro chip and have virtually the same performance, as the benchmarks prove, so it shouldn’t be treated as an anomaly – just a variance in the user-submitted scores. The same can be said when comparing the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, which use the A18 chip.

Based on these benchmarks, the iPhone 17 Pro is around 15% faster in single-core and 22% faster in multi-core, showcasing a pretty sizeable generational uplift from the Apple A18 Pro to A19 Pro chips. Both processors feature a 6-core design (2x performance and 4x efficiency cores), but the newer A19 Pro benefits from a newer architecture and is likely based on TSMC’s more advanced N3P (3nm) process, though Apple has not confirmed this. The Metal score is 35% faster than last gen’s Pro series.

The iPhone 17 series has shaped up to be an impressive generation. With the iOS 26 release date just around the corner, many users with existing models will be able to update, but if you’re interested in buying one of the new iPhone 17 models, you’ll enjoy a solid performance upgrade. Or for something different, the iPhone Air arrives as Apple’s thinnest phone to date – in part thanks to the rollout of eSIM-only to more regions.

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