We are just three months away from Apple’s unveiling of their next iPhone lineup. Strong rumors indicate their will be three iPhones this year. One of the biggest changes we certainly have come to expect from new iPhones is brand new hardware. And this year will be no different. Apple’s A12 SoC is in line to power the next-generation iPhones – succeeding the A11 Bionic chip.
Benchmarks for what supposedly is the upcoming A12 SoC have surfaced online out of Geekbench (via Mac Rumors).
The final score for the six-core CPU while running iOS 12 comes at 4673 for single-core and 10912 for multi-core. And a Metal score of 21691. For comparison, the iPhone X with the A11 chip landed a single-core score of 4206 and a multi-core score of 10128.
Already the A11 Bionic is trading blows with some laptops – strictly in terms of benchmark score. Apple’s chip game is very strong, it is why industry experts and hardware enthusiasts keep a particular interest for the next chip design from Apple.
Unlike other SoCs, such as the Snapdragon 845, the A11 can use all of its six-cores simultaneously – making it the only true hexacore chip out there. A stark constrast against Android SoCs which have up to eight cores on chip, but split into clusters of four, and only one cluster can operate at any given time.
It puts the A12 chip in a super advantageous position, where Apple can once again reign supreme over its competitors.
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