Apple's latest mobile chip, the A19, has officially become the world's fastest CPU, at least in PassMark's single-threaded benchmark. It outperformed every flagship desktop processor from both Intel and AMD, as well as Apple's own M3 Ultra, while requiring less cooling and consuming significantly less power.

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Apple's A19 chip in the iPhone 17 achieved the highest single-core performance score on PassMark benchmarks, surpassing desktop processors from Intel, AMD, and even Apple's own M3 Ultra. The A19 scored 5,149 points while consuming only 4W of power, compared to 44W for Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K and 56W for AMD's EPYC processor. However, the chip's multi-threaded performance remains limited due to fewer cores compared to desktop alternatives.

Apple's iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark, beating PC chips and Apple's own M3 Ultra — passively-cooled A19 CPU catapults past power-hungry competitors

This is super next level!!! :D 4watts ~ 10 days on a kilowatt hahahahaha 🙃
The future is cooming!

I mean this is great but are there actually real world applications on the iphone that get benefits from this compared to the previous processor?
This sounds amazing but useless.

The problem is the new phones looks not good. The iPhone Air looks much better then the Pro models. Most people don’t need that performance in their phones. I have an iPhone 15 Pro but i don’t play and games so it’s too much for a phone.

good to see apple isn’t messing up everything