14 DAY TRIAL // Apple’s iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max come with the A12 Bionic chip, which as the Cupertino-based tech giant obsessively repeated during the September 12 event, is the most advanced processor it ever built.
And while it makes sense for the latest iPhone to come with the best chip, a Geekbench comparison between the iPhone XS and the iPhone 8 Plus shows there’s still room for improvements.
While in single-core performance it’s pretty clear that the iPhone XS is the better model, with a score of 4813 versus 4307, not the same thing can be said about multi-core performance tests, where the older model managed to beat the latest-generation iPhone.
iPhone XS achieved a score of 10255 in these tests, while iPhone 8 Plus, which runs on the old A11 Bionic chip, reached 10800.
4GB RAM on all iPhones
The results are surprising, to say the least, but they also confirm that Apple continues to bet heavily on single-core performance on the iPhone. This could technically guarantee longer battery life when running a wider array of tasks, as using multiple cores of the chip obviously needs more power.
What’s important to note, however, is that the Geekbench scores do not specifically point to a certain iPhone XS model, as the device is labeled as iPhone 11,6. However, this shouldn’t be too relevant, as all new iPhones come with the A12 chip anyway.
The benchmarks also provide us with a closer look at what’s under the hood of the new iPhone XS. The A12 chip runs at 2.49 GHz and features 6 different cores, up from a similar architecture on the A11 Bionic clocked at 2.39 GHz.
The listing also confirms that the model features 4GB RAM and that the L1 cache has been upgraded from 32GB to 128GB on the new-generation model.
iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max will begin shipping to customers in several markets on September 21.