{
  "id": 6910369,
  "title": "Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/apples-a20-pro-shatters-geekbench-7-single-core-record-2nm-chip-beats",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-12T10:48:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Hardware",
    "slug": "tom-s-hardware",
    "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apples-a20-pro-shatters-geekbench-7-single-core-record-2nm-chip-beats-desktop-intel-core-i9-and-amd-ryzen-9-by-up-to-32-percent"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Apple's new A20 Pro chip has shattered the single-core record in the Geekbench 7 benchmark, delivering an impressive 4,006 points - a 32% increase over the previous record. This tiny chip, found in the latest iPhones, outperforms desktop CPUs from AMD and Intel by up to 32% in single-thread performance. While high-end PC CPUs excel at multi-threaded tasks, the A20 Pro still edges out mainstream laptop CPUs even with multiple threads in operation.\n\nCompared to its predecessor, the A20 Pro delivers a substantial 23.3% boost in single-thread performance and a 27.1% improvement in multi-thread performance. This marks the biggest generational leap in Apple's smartphone processors in years. The A20 Pro also outperforms leading mobile processors like Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5 and Xiaomi's XRing O3.\n\nIn direct comparison with desktop CPUs, the A20 Pro is 26% faster than AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 32% quicker than Intel's Core i9-14900KS. Although Apple's A20 Pro has only six cores, the chip has been enhanced with advanced CPU cores running at nearly 5 GHz, superior memory bandwidth, and improved efficiency cores. This combination has resulted in the highest single-thread and multi-thread performance among current smartphone processors.",
  "summary": "Apple's A20 Pro smartphone SoC outperforms all smartphone processors by a wide margin and manages to leave behind latest laptop processors.",
  "key_points": [
    "Apple's A20 Pro chip sets new single-core Geekbench 7 record at 4,006 points",
    "A20 Pro outperforms desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%",
    "A20 Pro delivers 23.3% single-thread and 27.1% multi-thread performance boost"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hacker News",
        "title": "Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/microcode-in-intels-8087-floating-point-chip-the-scale-instruction",
        "published": "2026-09-12T15:49:52.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}