In a few days, on November 10, Apple will present another event. Although the company has not specified what will be launched, we believe that the brand new line of Apple Silicon Macs will also be unveiled. And the day before that presentation, the benchmarks of the A14 chipset seem to have already been leaked.
The chipset reportedly goes the A14X Bionic called. It is a variant of the A14 Bionic used in this year’s iPhones 12 series and iPads. And – if it is indeed the real benchmark – the GeekBench results are something to be very happy about.
A14X faster than Intel i9
Earlier this year, developers were given the opportunity to test their software on a Mac mini with Apple Silicon. This Mac had an A12Z processor on board. Unsurprisingly, the results of the A14X far exceed the benchmarks of the A12Z. But perhaps more interesting is that the A14X is a lot faster than the most powerful laptop processor at the moment: the Intel i9 processor from the 16-inch MacBook Pro from 2019! It’s not huge differences, but it’s impressive to say the least and gives good hope for the future of the Apple Silicon.
In the table below we list the GeekBench benchmarks, and compare them with the A12Z, the current A14 (from the iPhone) and the intel i9.
| Single core | Multi-core | |
|---|---|---|
| A14 X Bionic | 1.634 | 7.220 |
| A14 Bionic (o.a. iPhone12) | 1.583 | 4.198 |
| A12Z (Apple Silicon) | 1.118 | 4.657 |
| Intel i9 | 1.096 | 6.869 |
A14X specifications
According to AppleInsider, which published the specs, the Apple Silicon A14X processor is a modified version of the ‘normal’ A14 Bionic chip, which we encounter in the iPhone 12 and iPads this year.
The A14X benchmarks show that it is an 8-core 1.80 GHz processor, which can handle a turbo boost of 3.10 GHz. This is the first time that an Apple ARM chip is clocked above 3 GHz. Finally, the A14X has 8 GB RAM on board as standard.
The GeekBench benchmarks describes the computer on which the test was done as an ‘unknown device’. AppleInsider further reports that they were unable to verify the results. So there is no way to tell if these benchmarks are real as benchmarks can be faked. However, previous benchmarks of older A-series chipsets already showed that these processors are quite powerful. So we are curious what to expect on November 10th.
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