Apple’s iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark, beating PC chips and Apple’s own M3 Ultra — passively-cooled A19 CPU catapults past power-hungry competitors

Apple’s latest generation of iPhones is equipped with its A19 chips — the standard A19 on iPhone 17 and the A19 Pro on iPhone 17 Air and Pros — which represent the best the company has to offer, literally. In PassMark’s single-threaded benchmark, the A19 produced the best numbers of any chip available, including fully-fledged desktop SKUs. It did that while consuming significantly less power and being passively cooled. At least in this hyper-specific case, Apple’s A19 has become the fastest CPU…