Apple prepares to reveal four iPhone 17 models within the next month, featuring the A19 Pro chipset built on TSMC's advanced third-generation 3nm manufacturing process. Recent fabricated benchmark results surfaced on social media platforms, displaying an alleged 8-core CPU configuration rather than the standard 6-core design. Dame Tech shared these questionable Geekbench 6 scores on X, which claimed performance cores running at 4.49GHz with single-core results of 4,309 points and multi-core scores reaching 11,604 points. The multi-threaded performance nearly matched Apple's M3 processor, which previously achieved 11,863 points in testing.
Geekbench's official database contains no legitimate A19 Pro entries, confirming these results as...