Appleās next budget-tier iPhone, the iPhone 17e, has once again appeared in an early leak. This time around, the next generation budget iPhone from the brand has surfaced in a GeekBench listing, with a suspicious amount of RAM and lacklustre performance. So let’s check it out.
What the GeekBench Leak Claims (and Why It Raises Eyebrows)
According to the GeekBench 6 listing shared by leaker Abhishek Yadav on X (formerly Twitter), a device labelled iPhone99,11 was put through the benchmark test. This model could be the upcoming iPhone 17e model, which is the next budget phone from Apple. Earlier rumors had hinted at the iPhone 17e being equipped with a binned version of the A19 processor, and this synthetic performance reflects the same.
The GeekBench 6 listing shows a single core score of 2,560 points, while the multi core test had it achieve 8,553 points. The alleged Apple iPhone 17e was running on the iOS 26.1 operating system and 10GB of RAM. At first glance, those scores donāt seem terrible for a mid-range iPhone running Appleās next-gen silicon. The bump in RAM from 8GB in the iPhone 16e to 10GB sounds like a welcome improvement, but only if it were true.
There are several red flags here:
- The base clock frequency of 3.76 GHz is lower than expected for a next-gen Apple chip.
- The device identifier (āiPhone99,11ā) doesnāt match Appleās usual naming logic.
- The motherboard name in the listing doesnāt match any recently known Apple parts, making it more likely this score was either spoofed or belongs to a different prototype entirely.
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