Apple finally released its much-awaited iPhone SE 3 with its current flagship-grade A15 Bionic chipset alongside a new M1-powered iPad Air, a new Mac Studio, and a new Studio Display recently. The new iPhone SE 3 comes as a budget-focused device, packing flagship-grade internals. Nonetheless, despite being the cheapest iPhone in the company’s portfolio, the iPhone SE 3 beats last year’s iPhone 13 and even Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra on Geekbench 5. Let’s take a look at the details.

Following its official launch at the “Peek Performance” event last week, the Geekbench 5 scores of the iPhone SE 3 (2022) were published on the official website. Surprisingly, the model identifier for the device on Geekbench’s website is “iPhone 14,6”. While the device was able to achieve a single-core score of 1695, the multi-core score stood at 4021.

Considering its starting price of Rs 43,900 in India, the Geekbench scores of the iPhone SE 3 are pretty impressive. Comparing them with the scores of Apple’s current flagship iPhone 13, which also packs the A15 Bionic chip, they are pretty close. While the single-core score of the iPhone SE is a tad bit higher than the 1672 single-core score of the iPhone 13, the 4481 multi-core score of the iPhone 13 is much higher than that of the iPhone SE 3’s multi-core score.