With Apple due to release its next iPhones on Sept. 9, attention has turned to how the new A9 chip will perform compared to the latest Exynos 7420 from Samsung. Leaked results from a benchmark test have now appeared online and they indicate that the new chip from Apple is faster when it comes to single core tasks but lags behind most other rivals in multi-core testing.

The results from the Geekbench 3 benchmark tests are just a leak which appeared on GforGames, and it clearly indicates that the A9 chip will be 30 percent faster than the A8 chip which is found on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, both of which were released last year.

As for the upcoming iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, if the benchmark results are to be believed, then they will be faster than the Samsung Galaxy S6 and its curved edge version, the S6 Edge, as well as the phablet-sized versions which were released earlier this month. However, this is only when it comes to single core performance.

Comparing the test numbers listed in the leaked results, the A9 chip has a single core result of 2090 and 3569 for multi-core tasks while the Exynos 7420 posted 1486 when performing single-core tasks but is much higher at 5048 when it comes to multi-core tasks. In addition, when comparing the scores earned by the A9 chip in GFXBench Manhattan and T-Rex tests, it appears that it will be much faster than the Snapdragon 810 and the Exynos 7420.

This is good news for Apple in the short run as it only has to compete with the Exynos 7420 chipset, but with Samsung already working on the faster Exynos M1 chipset, competition is just around the corner. The M1 was also seen in the test result beating the A9 with a single core result of 2136 and multi-core score of 7497.