The announcement of the iPhone 13 came with the unveiling of the new Apple A15 chipset, and (as always) Apple said it is the fastest smartphone chip in the world. Interestingly, the chip inside the iPhone 13 vanilla and mini had a 4-core GPU (as usual), while inside the iPhone 13 Pro, Pro Max and the new iPad mini had 5 cores (possibly a result of different binding intended to avert chip supply problems).
AnTuTu discovered an early test run of an “iPhone 14.2”, which is probably 13 Pro, a device with 6 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage space, no less. And with a total score of almost 840,000, it is undoubtedly faster than the previous models.
First AnTuTu result from Apple iPhone 13 Pro (6 GB RAM, 1 TB storage)
Here is a direct comparison of the iPhone 12 Pro vs. 13 Pro. The GPU’s speed increase is 19%, not bad, but not great considering the revised architecture and an extra core. It’s certainly not the 55% improvement reported by Geekbench’s GPU score (also ran on a 12 Pro). The CPU shows a similar jump in performance (17%).
It is the memory test that brings the greatest improvement (44%). However, the new storage capacity of 1 TB must have had a positive effect here (larger solid state drives also tend to be faster). Maybe the RAM also got faster, but Apple never announces such details publicly, so we’ll have to wait for a disassembly to see which chips it uses (12 Pro has LPDDR4).
iPhone 13 Pro Max Geekbench CPU score
An iPhone 14.3, presumably the iPhone 13 Pro Max ran Geekbench (the CPU test this time) and put a single-core score of 1,734 and a multi-core score of 4,818. Here is a comparison with iPhone 12 Pro Max:
GeekBench 5 (multi-core)
Higher is better
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Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max
4818 -
Apple iPhone 12 Pro
4056
GeekBench 5 (single-core)
Higher is better
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Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max
1734 -
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max
1606
Unfortunately, we do not have reliable benchmark scores for the upcoming Snapdragon 898 and Exynos 2200 to compare Android (soon) best chipset against the Apple A15.
