The first-ever iPhone 16e benchmarks have surfaced online, and they confirm 8GB of RAM and its performance with one less GPU core.
New Geekbench Metal Score Shows How Well the iPhone 16e Fares Even with One Less GPU Core in A18
To keep the cost of the iPhone 16e down, Apple made a handful of compromises, including one with the A18 chip.
See, it’s the same chip from the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus. There’s no doubt at all. However, it ships with a 4-core GPU rather than a 5-core. This is a binned version of the A18.
Since the iPhone 16e hasn’t gone on sale at the time of writing, we do have a Geekbench score sitting online showing what we can expect from the phone in terms of graphics performance.
In Geekbench, the iPhone 16e has a Metal score of 24,188. When compared to the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, which have an average score of 27,700, it’s only slightly less.
That’s a difference of about 14.5%.
Is that too much? No, it isn’t. Should you worry about it to any extent? Not at all.
Such a small difference does not mean anything in real-world use. The iPhone 16e is not aimed at people who find themselves counting frame rates and running synthetic benchmarks throughout the day.
In short, the average consumer will find no difference between this and the iPhone 16 in terms of performance.
Another thing confirmed by the benchmark is 8GB of RAM, which makes perfect sense since that’s the amount of memory needed to run Apple Intelligence and system tasks smoothly side-by-side.
