A17 Bionic Allegedly Shows Up In New Benchmark Leak, But Now 11 Percent Slower In Multi-Core Performance Compared To Earlier Results

New performance numbers have allegedly shown up online of the A17 Bionic, revealing that it is 11 percent slower in multi-core workloads compared to the previous leak, which actually turned out to be fake. While we will discuss this leak in more detail as to what makes these scores a little more believable, we will continue to advise readers to treat it with a pinch of salt.

New A17 Bionic scores also show significantly reduced single-core performance compared to the earlier leak

The alleged Geekbench 6 scores were found by Revengus, who stumbled across the new A17 Bionic numbers on the Korean website DCInside. With the image given below, Apple’s first 3nm SoC obtains a score of 3,019 and 7,860 in the single-core and multi-core results, making the chipset significantly slower than what we reported last time. If you are curious to know, the earlier single-core and multi-core scores were 3,986 and 8,841, respectively.

Sketchy A17 Bionic’s single-core and multi-core results show up again, though they are slower than the previous ones

The new multi-core score of the A17 Bionic shows that the silicon is 11 percent slower and nearly 25 percent behind in the single-core category. Though these results have become a little more believable than before, ShrimpApplePro, who also posted an image of the same results, states in his tweet below that he is unable to find a link on Geekbench, implying that anyone who spots these figures should treat them with a cloud of doubt.

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I haven’t found the link on Geekbench site yet so take it w a grain of MSG. https://t.co/0QTMXiTd3m pic.twitter.com/wu0DqcWzBQ

— ShrimpApplePro (@VNchocoTaco) March 14, 2023

However, assuming these results turn out to be the real deal, the A17 Bionic would have obtained a comprehensive lead against the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and we will explain why. Earlier, we talked about an engineering sample of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 that beat the A16 Bionic, but against the A17 Bionic, Qualcomm’s future flagship SoC is going up against a whole new silicon that has achieved a new echelon of performance and likely power efficiency.

Unfortunately, until we see an actual link on Geekbench’s database, it is difficult to confirm the authenticity of these A17 Bionic results, so as always, we will see how the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max perform when they launch later this year with this SoC.