The bitten apple company is working on Apple A18 ProThe SoC that will be used in the iPhone 16 Pro and its Pro Max version, and this will be a more powerful version of the Apple A18, which will be integrated into the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, the next-generation smartphones that Tim Cook will launch in September this year.

That SoC resolution already points to an important change in Apple’s strategy, which until now has reused the previous high-end chip in the next generation of iPhones, reserving the SoC change for the Pro and Pro Max models. That’s why both the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus have the A16 chip, while the Pro and Pro Max models come with the A17 Pro SoC.

The first performance data we have suggests that the Apple A18 Pro will offer excellent single-wire performance, so much so that it would not only outperform the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and the Dimensity 9400, but also outperform the Apple M3 in a single thread. If we look at the hard numbers, the SoC would get it an approximate score of 3,500 in Geekbench 6a number that exceeds the Apple M3 family by 14%.

The truth is that Apple’s A-series SoCs They almost always had the higher performance in monowire in their favorIn fact, the apple company has made very significant leaps in this regard with such legendary chips as the Apple A7, which was the first 64-bit and was used in the iPhone 5s, and with the Apple A10 Fusion and the Apple A11 Bionic.

However, if we are talking about the performance of v many fibrous things are changing. The same source says that the Apple A18 Pro scored about 8,200 points in the Geekbench 6 multi-threaded test, placing it 29% below Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. In any case, this is normal, because in the end the Apple chip will almost certainly have a 6-core configuration, while the Qualcomm solution will come configured with eight cores.

Possible Apple A18 Pro SoC Specifications

• It will be produced in the node 3 nm as TSMC will not start mass production of the 2nm node until 2025.
• will have a six-core CPUdivided into two high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores.
• High performance cores could touch the frequency peak almost 4 GHzand the high efficiency ones would run at about 2.5 GHz.
• will have a Apple GPU enhanced with 7 or 8 graphics cores.
• It will include a The new generation of NPU with higher AI performance.