First iPhone 17, Air, and Pro Geekbench Scores Surface Online [Benchmarks]

Just a day after Apple's 'Awe dropping' special event, the first Geekbench benchmark scores for the new iPhone 17 lineup have begun to surface online. The results provide an early look at the real-world performance of Apple's new A19 and A19 Pro processors, showing a solid generational leap over the A18-series chips found in the iPhone 16.

The new iPhone 17 Pro (iPhone18,1 and iPhone18,2), powered by the A19 Pro chip, clocked in with a top single-core score of 3895 and a multi-core score of 9746. That represents a performance jump of over 13% compared to the A18 Pro in last year's iPhone 16 Pro. The benchmarks also confirm the long-rumored jump to 12GB of RAM.

On the graphics side, the gains are even more significant. The A19 Pro posted a Metal score of 45657, which supports Apple's claim that the new chip delivers up to 40 percent better sustained performance when paired with the new thermal design.


The new iPhone Air (iPhone18,4), which also features the A19 Pro, is right there with the Pro models in CPU performance, posting a multi-core score of 9737. Its Metal score of 37743, however, is lower, which aligns with reports that the Air model would use the same chip but with one less GPU core.

The standard iPhone 17 (iPhone18,3), with its A19 chip, wasn't far behind. It scored 3608 in single-core and 8810 in multi-core performance, an improvement of about 8% over the A18 chip in the standard iPhone 16. The benchmark report shows this model with 8GB of RAM and a smaller 4MB L2 cache, setting it apart from the Pro and Air versions.

Apple officially unveiled the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, and iPhone 17 Pro during its keynote yesterday. Pre-orders kick off this Friday, with the phones hitting stores on September 19. If you want to see all the announcements in a couple of minutes, check out our quick video recap of the event.