Apple unveiled the iPhone 17 lineup on September 9, and just hours later, early Geekbench scores claiming to show the new A19 and A19 Pro chips began circulating online. If accurate, the results suggest Apple has kept CPU improvements fairly modest this year.
According to numbers spotted by partofstyle.com, the iPhone 17 Pro Max powered by the A19 Pro reached 3,781 points in single-core and 9,679 in multi-core tests. That’s roughly a 10% bump over the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s A18 Pro, which managed 3,479 and 8,568. The regular iPhone 17, running the standard A19, posted 3,608 single-core and 8,810 multi-core scores — around 7% better than the A18 in last year’s iPhone 16.
The relatively small gains line up with earlier reports that Apple’s latest chips, reportedly built on TSMC’s 3nm N3P process, are designed more for efficiency and AI performance than for raw CPU speed. The A19 Pro in the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max is paired with vapor chamber cooling for sustained workloads, while the base iPhone 17 and the new iPhone Air miss out on this feature.
As always with early benchmarks, the results are unverified and may not reflect final performance. More reliable tests will come as reviewers get their hands on the devices.
Still, the takeaway is clear: Apple’s silicon roadmap this year seems to emphasize energy savings, thermal management, and Neural Engine upgrades rather than headline-grabbing CPU jumps. That may not thrill benchmark chasers, but it could translate into smoother performance and better battery life in everyday use.
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