With the A19 and A19 Pro chips out and about, one could ponder about how much oomph they’d get out of their phone. While phones don’t make the massive leaps year over year like in the 2010s, to see a chip in your phone compare to what’s in a current laptop is mind blowing.
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While artificial benchmarks don’t fully represent the picture created by the numbers, nor do they factor in the experiential difference of the two devices, the fact remains still it can give us an idea of relative performance. The idea here is it’s like a water pressure test – how much pressure can the system perform under, and how can it perform relative to other devices in simplified terms?
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An A19 Pro GPU could compare to an RX 570 in a Mac Pro 5,1
I remember a time recently when the AMD RX 570 was a brand new GPU, and now we can just about have one in our pockets. Despite the age of these GPUs, they’ve remained relatively steady go-tos for Metal graphics on an Intel Mac, offering solid performance for a low cost. The more well-known AMD RX 580 is not far above this performance benchmark.
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Although some RX 570s bench higher than the 37K range, I didn’t see any RX 560s compare to the A19 Pro. Still, this is a very powerful graphics chip to have in a phone. I still remember not that long ago when an acquaintance was putting together an AMD gaming PC for their first-gen HTC vive: with an AMD FX-8350 and an RX 580. To think we have close to all that power in our pockets.
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An iPhone Air GPU is more powerful than an M1 Mac minis GPU
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A19 Pro CPU vs the top-tier 18-Core iMac Pro
I have no words. All that ram, the top-end Xeon W2191B, and it can only just about match the multicore, while being far, far behind in single core performance. Again, I have no words.
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In Conclusion
Although the CPU performance benchmarks were leaked before launch day for the iPhone 17 lineup, there weren’t any GPU performance leaks on Geekbench 6’s results browser. It feels as though Apple’s claims for a much stronger GPU this year are genuine, as these benchmarks reflect. We will have to see how apps and games will perform, although I’m more interested in how the CPU will perform for apps like UTM SE. This is exciting! All that power in your pocket.
