Apple A19 phones: benchmarks, gaming & which to buy
What the Apple A19 delivers in real phones: benchmark scores, gaming performance, battery efficiency and the phones that ship with it.
What the Apple A19 is
The base chip of the iPhone 17 generation (2025) — Apple's cheapest current silicon, and by raw numbers a top-15 chip in our entire catalog: rank #11 of 79, AnTuTu about 2.16 million, Geekbench 6 near 3,690 single-core and 9,450 multi-core. Full scores on the Apple A19 page.
Performance and gaming
About 67/100 on our gaming scale — the highest base-model score we track, ahead of every non-Elite Android chip. Every iOS game currently shipping runs at maximum settings, Apple Intelligence is fully supported, and the update runway stretches past 2030. Bought on performance-per-dollar, this is the strongest position the base iPhone has ever held.
Phones that ship with it
| Phone | Year | Used / Launch |
|---|---|---|
| Apple iPhone 17 | 2025 | $597 / $799 |
| Apple iPhone 17e | 2026 | $460 / $599 |
Buying advice
Two phones, two clean pitches: the iPhone 17 near $597 used holds its value unusually well — our iPhone 17 review explains why demand stays high — while the iPhone 17e near $460 is the cheapest way into current-generation Apple performance, covered in our iPhone 17e review. Cross-shopping Android at this money makes the gap stark: the A17 Pro guide shows a two-year-old Pro iPhone still mid-pack, and the A19 Pro page what the extra money buys above it.
Benchmarks
| Geekbench 6 single-core | 3,692 #2 of 80 SoCs |
|---|---|
| Geekbench 6 multi-core | 9,454 #5 of 80 SoCs |
| AnTuTu benchmark | 2,156,126 #11 of 80 SoCs |