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By AppleInsider Staff
Monday 02 September 2019, 22:28 pm (01:28 ET)
The benchmark scores recorded with the Geekbench 4 online tool from Primate Labs, an unknown iPhone model up to now and equipped with an unidentified six-core ARM processor with 4 GB of RAM, specifications that correspond to the rumors of an early follow-up of the iPhone XR 2019.
Scores of a so-called "iPhone12.1" running what appears to be the newly released iOS 13.1 beta appeared on the Geekbench browser on Monday. Although Apple does not use it officially, rumors have associated the hardware identifier to a next-generation iPhone XR model, which should be unveiled at a special event organized by Apple September 10th.
To give more credibility to the authenticity of the benchmark, a motherboard identified as "N104AP", the same numbering scheme that Apple would have used internally to refer to the pending update of its iPhone XR. It should be noted, however, that data fields may be falsified in reference reports. As such, the veracity of the overall Geekbench scores is at this point tenuous at best.
The results cover a 2.66 GHz generic "ARM" hexa-core system-on-chip with 4 GB of memory. The specifications are almost identical to those of Apple's existing A12 Bionic silicon used in the iPhone XR, XS and XS Max, but with more base RAM and higher clock speed. In comparison, the iPhone XR is equipped with a Bionic A12 at 2.49 GHz with 3 GB of RAM, while the XS and XS Max both offer an extra gigabyte of memory.
Assuming that the chip is legitimate, its clock speed faster and, in the case of the iPhone XR, a larger memory allocation equals a single-core score greater than 5415. The aggregate results of Geekbench show that the average scores of the iPhone XR are just over 4800. Basic score of 11294, "iPhone12.1" is in the same league as the current high-end iPhones.
In single-core evaluations, the so-called "A13" chip displays a significantly increased number of encryption, integer, and floating-point scores compared to Apple's A12 Bionic range. The multicore scores of these same tests are comparable to those of the current hardware, with the exception of cryptography, which is still much improved. The results could indicate the presence of a supposed mathematical coprocessor that Apple intends to implement in augmented reality and computer vision operations.
It is interesting to note that the instruction and data caches L1 of the unrecognized iPhone are read at 48 KB, which is much less than the 128 KB allocated to A12 Bionic processors. The L2 cache is also smaller at 4 MB, instead of 8 MB in the iPhone XR and XS series.
A MacRumeurs Forum member spotted the benchmark results earlier today.
Apple is expected to unveil the successors of its iPhone XR and XS ranges at a special event to be held Sept. 10. According to some rumors, this year's updates would fit into a triple-lens rear camera and add improved internal components, such as bidirectional wireless charging and larger batteries. Aside from a square "camera" and an apparently reworked mute switch, the camera's design should not change, although frosted glass and new colors may be coming.
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