The A19 Pro AP underperforms the Exynos 2600 on Geekbench’s multi-core test.
The Apple A19 Pro application processor (AP) isn’t bulldozing its way through the competition as one might expect it to. The other chipsets that will be compared to the Apple A19 Pro include the Samsung Exynos 2600 AP, which could end up as the first chip built using a 2nm process node to find its way inside a smartphone. Competition for the A19 AP will also come from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite 5, the successor to the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
Apple’s latest high-end application processor, the A19 Pro, powers the amazingly thin iPhone Air, the iPhone 17 Pro, and the iPhone 17 Pro Max. That would make it Apple’s most powerful smartphone processor. It is built by TSMC using its third-generation 3nm process node (N3P). Compared to last year’s A18 Pro, built using TSMC’s second-gen 3nm process, the A19 Pro’s six-core CPU breaks down into two performance cores and four efficiency cores and delivers a 13% improvement in performance over the A18 Pro.
With Apple focusing on the SoC’s efficiency instead of performance, the A19 Pro delivered Geekbench 6 single-core and multi-core scores of 3,895 and 9,746, respectively. As is typical, Apple’s AP was tops in single-core. But by focusing on efficiency, the A19 Pro left too much performance on the table allowing its multi-core score to fall behind the multi-core scores belonging to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and the Exynos 2600.
Even with the Snapdragon 8 Elite 5 AP underclocked at 4GHz compared to the default 4.
