The iPhone 7's A10 Processor Allegedly Scores 18% Higher Than the iPhone 6s' A9 in Early Benchmarks [Chart]

The A10 SoC, which will ship with the iPhone 7, will allegedly be 18% faster than the A9 chip in the iPhone 6s, according to a new report from Techtastic.

The site claims that a source has revealed preliminary Geekbench scores for the processor of 3000 points, about the same as the A9X found in the iPad Pro.

The benchmark app Geekbench 3 A10 able to achieve a single-core of more than 3,000 items, about the same amount as the Apple A9X, which under the hood of the iPad Pro 9.7 and 12.9 can be found. Apple A9 of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus usually scores around 2500 points, which equates to a performance increase of about 18%.


The report also notes that while preliminary benchmarks of the A9 versus A8 chip showed a similar increase, the final result was much higher at around 43%.

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