What is the iPhone 18 Pro's Geekbench score?

Early Geekbench listings show the iPhone 18 Pro at 4,719 single-core and 12,677 multi-core, with the iPhone 18 Pro Max at 4,725 and 12,575. Both are powered by Apple's A20 Pro chip. These entries appeared before the phones went on sale, so they may come from pre-release units and could shift slightly once retail software ships.

How much faster is the A20 Pro than the A19 Pro?

Based on these listings, the A20 Pro is about 21 to 23 percent faster in single-core and 27 to 28 percent faster in multi-core than the A19 Pro in the iPhone 17 Pro. Its seven-core GPU scored 64,069 in Geekbench Metal against 45,683 for the A19 Pro, a gain of roughly 40 percent that matches Apple's own claim.

Does the A20 Pro beat the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6?

In these Geekbench results, yes. The A20 Pro runs roughly 38 percent faster in single-core and about 35 percent faster in multi-core than Qualcomm's chip, which averages around 3,434 and 9,334. Qualcomm clocks slightly higher at 5.01 GHz versus 4.93 GHz, so the difference comes from chip design rather than frequency.

How much RAM does the iPhone 18 Pro Max have?

The Geekbench entry for the iPhone 18 Pro Max lists 12 GB of memory. Apple does not publish RAM figures in its press materials or spec sheets, so benchmark database listings are usually the first place this number appears. Treat it as strong evidence rather than a confirmed specification.

When do the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max go on sale?

Pre-orders open on Saturday, September 12, and both phones reach customers on Friday, September 18 in more than 65 countries, including the US, UK, India, Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany and France. A second wave of 20 additional countries follows on Friday, September 25. Prices start at $1,199 and $1,299 in the US.

A20 Pro Benchmarks: iPhone 18 Pro Scores 4,719 Single-Core

The numbers, model by model

The two entries differ by less than a rounding error, which is what you would expect from two phones running the same silicon. The Pro Max entry actually posts a slightly higher single-core figure and a slightly lower multi-core one.

iPhone 18 Pro: 4,719 single-core, 12,677 multi-core
iPhone 18 Pro Max: 4,725 single-core, 12,575 multi-core
Clock speed: 4.93 GHz on the performance cores, in a 2+4 six-core layout
Memory: 12 GB listed against the Pro Max entry
Graphics: 64,069 in the Geekbench Metal test, against 45,683 for the A19 Pro

That Metal figure is the one worth pausing on. It works out to about 40 percent more graphics throughput than the A19 Pro, and it lines up almost exactly with what Apple claimed on stage for the seven-core GPU. Benchmark listings and marketing slides do not usually agree that closely.

How it compares with Android flagships

Against the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, which has been posting around 3,434 single-core and 9,334 multi-core in the same database, the A20 Pro runs roughly 38 percent faster on one core and about 35 percent faster across all six. Qualcomm's chip clocks marginally higher at 5.01 GHz, so the gap is architectural rather than a question of frequency.

MediaTek's Dimensity 9600 Pro is the closer rival on paper. Its multi-core average of roughly 12,000 sits within touching distance of the A20 Pro's 12,575 to 12,677, but its single-core average of about 3,400 leaves the same wide gap that Qualcomm faces. Single-core speed is what most people feel day to day, in app launches and web page rendering.

What Apple actually claimed

Apple's own announcement describes the A20 Pro as a 2-nanometer part with a six-core CPU carrying integrated Neural Accelerators, 50 percent more memory bandwidth than the A19 Pro, and a seven-core GPU up to 40 percent faster than its predecessor. It also cites a new dual 16-core Neural Engine, 32 cores in total, for double the AI processing of the previous generation.

The company paired the chip with a next-generation vapor chamber and says the combination delivers the highest sustained performance of any iPhone. That claim is the one benchmarks like these cannot check. A Geekbench run lasts a couple of minutes; sustained performance is about what happens in minute twenty of a game or a long video export, and it will take retail units and longer tests to confirm.

Treat these as early listings

Nothing here has been verified as coming from a retail iPhone 18 Pro. Database entries that appear before a phone ships typically come from review units or internal devices, they can run pre-release firmware, and a single run can be skewed by whatever else the device was doing. Scores often shift by a few percent once retail software lands. The pattern across the entries is consistent enough to be useful; the exact digits are not final.

One more caveat on the figures themselves: the CPU scores quoted here come from Geekbench 7 and the graphics scores from Geekbench 6 Metal, and the two versions are not interchangeable. Each comparison above holds only within its own version.

When you can buy one

The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 in the US for 256 GB and the iPhone 18 Pro Max at $1,299, with 512 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB tiers above that. Pre-orders open Saturday, September 12, and the phones reach shops on Friday, September 18 in more than 65 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Turkiye, the UAE, the UK and the US. A second wave of 20 more countries follows on Friday, September 25.

Both phones ship with iOS 27, which Apple has confirmed for Monday, September 14. If you want to see how the A20 Pro's extra headroom is being spent in the camera app, the manual focus and histogram controls found in iOS 27 code give a preview. On the Android side, Qualcomm's two-chip Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 line is the silicon these scores will be measured against for the next twelve months.