iPhone 17e Benchmarks Reveal A19 Chip Performance With a Tiny Catch

[code-m]

I wonder how much of a difference it is between the 17e and 17. It's just 8 points. What difference does that make?

Acceptable margin of error that will be not perceivable is real-world usage.

 

[Eriamjh1138@DAN]

There is one tiny catch, as the iPhone 17e has a 4-core GPU, whereas the iPhone 17 has a 5-core GPU.

Why is this a "catch"? The catch is the clickbait headline.

 

[jdclifford]

How much RAM?

8GB

 

[mudflap]

Now just imagine if they also made it flush with the back...

That's impossible until they figure out how to make folded optics or metalens tech to produce images as good as what we have now. It will happen eventually but not yet.

 

[ChrisMac47]

I am glad to get 5 years of updates without needing a new phone.

Google Pixel 10a has 7 years of updates? Looks so much more a better buy than the iPhone 17e.

 

[Ja50n]

Yep, that score lines up with having 80% of the GPU cores. It’s unlikely to cause a problem in any application that runs fine on the 5-core phones. I wish it had a second camera though.

 

[conmee]

That's impossible until they figure out how to make folded optics or metalens tech to produce images as good as what we have now. It will happen eventually but not yet.

Physics wasn’t a problem for the 4, 4S, 5, 5S, and SE. Want a newer example with 48MP? Pixel 10a. Yeah, the Pixel 10a is 8.9mm thick (17e is 7.8mm, but 17 Pro/Max is already 8.75mm - with bump 9.48mm and whopping 13.18mm respectively). I’d take a uniform size of 8.9mm with a 48MP camera (and Apple’s photo pipeline vs Google) than a phone masquerading as thin with a huge physical eyesore of a plateau. And you’d get the added bonus of a little more room for more battery.

I agree it may be a challenge or even impossible with current camera lens tech to cram the 17 Pro/Max cameras into a 9mm phone, but it’s not impossible to make the 17e camera flush.

 

[zapmymac]

This and the base 17 will really be a great phone for basic use types of people, and/or getting someone into the Apple ecosystem (for better or worse) 💯✅

 

[Hammerd]

I still think the normal iPhone 17 is the best iPhone out right now.

Well, technically it’s the pro

 

[bluecoast]

The amount of people who will play graphically challenging games or use it to edit video beyond the simple edits provided by photos, is precisely 0.

 

[SF7]

I’ve just done it on my 17 Pro Max…

 

[SF7]

Zolotech routinely gets over 10000. I’ve gotten it, also, on iOS 26.3

 

[DeanCorp]

Zolotech routinely gets over 10000. I’ve gotten it, also, on iOS 26.3

I’ll worry about it if my score sucks on iPhone 18 Pro Max

 

[DeanCorp]

I’ve just done it on my 17 Pro Max…

Just an update as I’ve heard a rumor that iOS 26.4 improved performance. I have just ran Geekbench again on the same device: