Macworld The first seemingly legitimate benchmarks of Apple’s new A18 Pro chip have apparently leaked out, and they show a healthy boost in performance that should keep Apple on top of the smartphone performance charts for a while.

An early benchmark result for the A18 Pro chip in the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max appears to have surfaced on the Geekbench 6 website.

With M1 benchmarking around 8300 for multi-core performance, the A18 Pro is seemingly a hair more impressive, and while the comparison may seem like apples to oranges to some, it shows just how far Apple has come in just a few years - let alone the rest of the industry which is keeping pace or following closely behind.

With the iPhone 16 range, Apple introduced two new chips — the A18 and A18 Pro. Here's what's different between them, and how they compare to older hardware.