Apple CEO Tim Cook announces the new Apple iPhone 7 during a launch event on September 7, 2016 in San Francisco, California. (Photo : Getty Images/Stephen Lam)
With the unveiling of Apple iPhone 7's A10 processor, designed to be 40 percent faster than the A9 chip in the iPhone 6S and twice as fast as the A8, graphics performance for the highly-anticipated mobile device of 2016 promises a greater improvement in terms of console level gaming.
Apple's senior vice president of marketing Phil Schiller attest before iPhone fans during the San Francisco launch in Wednesday how Apple has had the fastest smartphone available for generation to generation, MacWorld learned.
Now a new Geekbench result confirms what is exactly inside the latest iPhone. Apple's newest A10 Fusion chipset scores more than any other processor ever packed into an iPhone or iPad, MacRumors reported.
Comparatively, the iPhone 7 Plus earned a single-core score of 3233 and a multi-core score of 5363. Meanwhile, the iPhone 6s Plus averages a single-core score of 2407 and a multi-core score of 4046, while the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which has the highest-clocked A9X chip, has an average single-core score of 3009 and an average multi-core score of 4881.
In perspective, the listing suggest that iPhone 7 Plus is approximately 33 percent faster than the iPhone 6s when it comes to both single and multi-core scores, while approximately 7 percent faster than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro on single-core tests and nearly 10 percent faster on multi-core tests.
Apple A10 Fusion is geared to 2.23GHz and earlier rumours pointed at the chipset clocking 2.4GHz, which could translate to a desktop-class performance. However, there is a fair chance that Apple might have underclocked the frequency for performance tuning.
The A10 chipset boasts a four-core processor with 3.3 billion transistors that could make handling system intensive tasks and powers two-efficiency cores optimized for low power that could promote longer battery life.
According to the same publication, the Geekbench listing suggested that the iPhone 7 should offer approximately two hours more battery life than the iPhone 6s on average, and that the iPhone 7 Plus should offer approximately one hour of additional battery life compared to the iPhone 6s Plus. \
As to its verdict, Schiller stated that "there is absolutely no question: the A10 Fusion is the most powerful chip ever in a smartphone."
