Apple A17 Pro disappoints in maiden Geekbench run; rumour suggests it is a rebadged A16 Bionic

[Redaktion]

Apple's new A17 Pro SoC is only marginally faster than its predecessor in Geekbench 6.2. Its single-core performance improvement is around 10%, and multi-core about 5%.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-A17-Pro-disappoints-in-maiden-Geekbench-run-rumour-suggests-it-is-a-rebadged-A16-Bionic.750697.0.html

[Ajay]

Main test would be if they increased the perf/watt compared to A16 and by how much.

[xanzaz2010]

How is 10% not an impressive gain? These chips are faster than my intel Macs now, and they have been for some time.

[Lx]

Feels to me like there are multiple reasons.

• Testing the 3nm architecture, hence not a lot of drastic changes in design.
• manufacturing difficulties
• not optimised for the architecture
• typical Apple low year cycle

[ambhaiji]

OP can you please post the scores of the A16 Bionic results you are using because from the ones on Geekbench itself the perf improvement is +16% and +12%