Apple only announced the new iPhone SE (2022) a couple of days ago, but someone out there has already managed to get their hands on a unit and run a GeekBench test on it. And since those results are public, we can now see how it did!
This is well above the scores of the old-gen iPhone SE and its A13 chip — browsing through the various GeekBench results for that model, we can see that it hovers around a single-core score of 1300 and a multi-core score of 3300 on a good day.
But that was obviously going to be the case — these phones are two generations apart. What I find more interesting here is that we can definitively say that the iPhone SE will not be as powerful as the iPhone 13 series. Taking a look at the iPhone 13 results, we can see that the iPhone SE (2022) does match it in single-core score, but the iPhone 13 typically gets around 4700 points on the multi-core aspect.
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I am pretty sure there’s some throttling involved. The iPhone SE (2022) is tiny so it has two problems that it needs to tackle. One - thermals, and two - a tiny battery. No doubt, Apple needed to put the reigns on that A15 so it wouldn’t decimate the iPhone SE from the inside.
Then again, this is just a singular test — it’s best to run it a few times over and see how the phone performs over a prolonged exposure to the intense benchmarking. In the end, even if the iPhone SE (2022)’s GeekBench multi-core score is 4000, I am pretty sure it will do just fine in everyday use. I am much, much more interested in how it will fare with battery life.
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Preslav, a member of the PhoneArena team since 2014, is a mobile technology enthusiast with a penchant for integrating tech into his hobbies and work. Whether it's writing articles on an iPad Pro, recording band rehearsals with multiple phones, or exploring the potential of mobile gaming through services like GeForce Now and Steam Link, Preslav's approach is hands-on and innovative. His balanced perspective allows him to appreciate both Android and iOS ecosystems, focusing on performance, camera quality, and user experience over brand loyalty.
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