Apple's iPhone 7 could be more powerful than we thought, according to benchmark tests
Geekbench results of a mysterious "iPhone9,3" surface, possibly revealing diagnostic speeds for the highly expected iPhone 7.
The next iPhone is expected to blow by the iPhone 6S' processing power.
All you Apple fans eagerly awaiting Wednesday's likely iPhone 7 announcement may have good reason to jump for joy.
Benchmark tests for a mysterious device called "iPhone9,3" surfaced online, MacRumors reported. The results, run using popular diagnostic tool Geekbench, are believed to belong to Apple's unannounced-but-highly-rumored iPhone 7. This is based off the fact that the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are given the identifiers of "iPhone8,1" and "iPhone8,2" respectively -- therefore the iPhone 7 would have a code-name with a higher number. The results are currently being hosted on the Geekbench browser.
There's a lot of technical information in the screenshot above, but here are some takeaways.
- The device runs iOS 10.1 software, further pointing to the fact that this is the iPhone 7 -- which will be the first phone to ship with it.
- The device has 2GB of RAM (the RAM of the iPhone 7 has yet to be announced officially).
- Geekbench gives the iPhone9,3 a single-core score of 3379 and a multi-core score of 5495. Compare these scores to that of the iPhone 6s, which got a single-core score 0f 2475 and a multi-core score of 4176. The scores even surpass that of the iPad Pro, a device marketed as a processing powerhouse in the world of tablets. The iPad Pro scored 3009 and 4878 respectively. You can see a score breakdown for all iOS devices here.
The higher scores give a sense of how mighty Apple's new processing chip is compared to last year's A9 and A9X chips.
While we'll have to wait to hear much more about the iPhone 7 during tomorrow's Apple event, these numbers give us a glimpse of what to expect.
