Apple A18 Pro phones: benchmarks, gaming & which to buy
What the Apple A18 Pro delivers in real phones: benchmark scores, gaming performance, battery efficiency and the phones that ship with it.
What the Apple A18 Pro is
The 2024 Pro-tier iPhone chip — the first Apple silicon built on a 3 nm-class process with a dedicated GPU core layout for ProRes video and hardware ray tracing. It ranks #18 of 79 in our catalog (AnTuTu about 1.78 million, Geekbench 6 near 3,570 single-core and 8,920 multi-core). Full scores on the Apple A18 Pro page.
Performance and gaming
About 59/100 on our gaming scale — right alongside the base A18, with the difference showing in sustained Pro workloads: 4K video pipelines, external ProRes recording and long gaming sessions hold clocks better on the Pro bin. For pure gaming the cheaper A18 phones are nearly as fast; the A18 Pro is bought for the camera systems around it.
Phones that ship with it
| Phone | Year | Used / Launch |
|---|---|---|
| Apple iPhone 16 Pro | 2024 | $700 / $999 |
| Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max | 2024 | $775 / $1,199 |
Buying advice
Used depreciation did most of the work here: the iPhone 16 Pro near $700 and the 16 Pro Max near $775 sit a full tier below their launch prices — our 16 Pro review and 16 Pro Max review cover both, and the Galaxy S25 Ultra vs iPhone 16 Pro Max comparison settles the cross-platform question at exactly this money. Against last year, the A17 Pro guide shows the cheaper Pro generation; against this year's base, the A18 page what the Pro premium actually buys.
Benchmarks
| Geekbench 6 single-core | 3,570 #4 of 80 SoCs |
|---|---|
| Geekbench 6 multi-core | 8,923 #8 of 80 SoCs |
| AnTuTu benchmark | 1,782,199 #18 of 80 SoCs |