# Apple A20 Pro tops Geekbench 7 single-core, first 2nm smartphone SoC

_Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 6:48 AM EDT · Products, AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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An early Geekbench 7 submission shows Apple's A20 Pro, the application processor in its latest iPhones, scoring 4,006 single-thread and 11,460 multi-thread points, a 23.3% and 27.1% gain over the A19 Pro.

The chip is Apple's first smartphone SoC on TSMC's N2 node and pairs two desktop-class cores clocked up to 4.93 GHz with 50% more memory bandwidth. Tom's Hardware reports the part beats AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D by 26% and Intel's Core i9-14900KS by 32% in single-thread work, while desktop and 16-core laptop parts retain large multi-thread leads.

## Sources

- [Tom's Hardware](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)

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