It has yet to be 24 hours since Apple announced the new iPhone 16 series, and we have already spotted the first single-core and multi-core results for one of the newly unveiled models. Unfortunately, the results are much lower than what you would expect from an A18 or A18 Pro, but there is little cause for worry, as you will soon find out.

One of the newest benchmark listings on Geekbench 6 that was spotted by @jimmyjamesuk123 on X shows that the iPhone 16's designation number is iPhone 17,3, indicating that it is indeed one of the models from Apple's latest lineup. While the single-core score is decent, with the benchmark reporting a result of 3,114 points, the multi-core category surprised us the most. After all, this figure is slightly less than what the iPhone 15 Pro Max obtained with its A17 Pro, but we might have an explanation for what is actually going on.

While it is unconfirmed if it was the A18 and A18 Pro that was tested, the clock speed of 4.04GHz highlights that it is one of these chipsets. Even the M4, another chipset mass produced on TSMC's second-generation 3nm process, was operating at these frequencies. As for the low multi-core score, it is likely that Geekbench 6 has yet to be updated to provide an impartial result of the iPhone 16. If you remember, when the M4 was officially announced, a Geekbench 6 result came out almost immediately, but the SoC had a lower clock speed than the M3.

The iPhone 16 is exhibiting the same issues right now, meaning that we have to wait a while for updated results to come through, which will no doubt give us a clearer picture on the multi-core end. Apple said that the A18 found in the non-Pro models has up to a 30 percent faster CPU than the A16 Bionic running in the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, so we must remain patient for the new scores to be posted.