iPhone XR

A12 Bionic, October 2018

Scores

Single-core

No data

Multi-core

No data

GPU (Metal)

No data

Keynote claims, measured

“A12 Bionic features a six-core fusion architecture with two performance cores that are up to 15 percent faster, four efficiency cores that are up to 50 percent more efficient, a four-core GPU that is up to 50 percent faster, powerful Apple-designed Image Signal Processor (ISP), video encoder and more.”

Compares CPU single-core and GPU (Metal) with the A11 Bionic in the iPhone 8. No baseline named, read as the previous generation.

iPhone XR announcement, September 2018, Apple Newsroom, iPhone XR announcement, September 2018

Single-core

Claimed up to +15%

No data

Not measurable with Geekbench. Power efficiency, not speed.

GPU

Claimed up to +50%

No data

Not measurable with Geekbench

  • “Core ML running on the A12 Bionic Neural Engine is up to nine times faster than on A11 Bionic, with as little as one-tenth the energy usage.”

    Neural Engine; Geekbench 6 does not test it.

    iPhone XR announcement, September 2018, Apple Newsroom, iPhone XR announcement, September 2018

iPhone base single-core, by generation

DeviceSingle-coreChange over the previous generation
iPhone 5c, 2013No dataFirst in this line
iPhone 6, 2014about 350No data
iPhone 6s, 2015No data
iPhone 7, 2016No data
iPhone 8, 2017No data
iPhone XR, 2018, this deviceNo data
iPhone 11, 2019No data
iPhone 12, 2020No data
iPhone 13, 2021No data
iPhone 14, 2022No data
iPhone 15, 2023No data
iPhone 16, 2024No data
iPhone 17, 2025No data

Against other devices

The iPhone XR has no scores to compare.