iPhone Duo benchmarks like an iPhone 18 Pro, but at $1,999 sustained loads push it to 49 °C and 185 nits
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Evidence gathered 2026-10-26, three days after the iPhone Duo — Apple’s first book-style foldable, launched October 23, 2026 at a US starting price of $1,999 — reached stores. It covers 394 extracted benchmark and measured-test variants, 845 specification and price claims, and 846 comparison facts on book-style foldable peers, drawn from Apple newsroom pages, PCMag, Tom’s Guide and dozens of other outlets. Most lab numbers trace back to a handful of early reviews, so this is early evidence, not mature multi-device averages.
Geekbench 7 CPU: the Duo’s A20 Pro clears every foldable peer
Scores, higher is better. iPhone Duo’s widely repeated figure (3,986 / 11,067) traces to a single Geekbench 7.1.0 submission on iOS 27.1 echoed across ~143 URLs; peer Geekbench 7 figures are each single-outlet results. Bars carry their source counts.
Blue = single-core, violet = multi-core. Only Geekbench 7 results are compared; Geekbench 6 numbers are kept separate in the table below.
Under sustained load, a third of the performance goes away
3DMark Wild Life Extreme stress test (20 loops), best vs lowest loop score — stability 67.9% (3 sources, Tom’s Guide thermal torture test).
Peak surface heat of 49 °C under load, about 2 °C hotter than iPhone 18 Pro Max in a thermal-camera comparison — corroborated by three URLs. zeerawireless.com
In a 30-minute gaming test the screen dimmed to 185 nits and frame rates ran ~20% below iPhone 18 Pro models — a single-source HTX Studio result, at 46.5 °C. kiro.it
Two 48MP rear cameras, no dedicated telephoto: Apple offers an “integrated optical-quality 2x” crop and up to 10x digital zoom, where Fold-class rivals carry real tele lenses. apple.com
Price sits above the field: $1,999 vs $1,899 for Pixel 11 Pro Fold, with Galaxy Z Fold 8 at $2,099 for 512GB and the Fold 8 Ultra at $2,099.99. me.pcmag.com
Official specifications, from Apple’s newsroom and corroborated reporting
Each fact links its source; counts show how many independent URLs back it.
Caveat. The headline Geekbench figure is one submission (Geekbench 7.1.0, iOS 27.1) repeated by many outlets, not repeated independent lab runs; a second independent run reports 4,012 / 11,199. Three days after launch there is no data on long-term durability, battery aging, or mature multi-device benchmark averages. Single-source rows are labelled, and mismatched or dubious extractions were omitted rather than shown.
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Method: deduplicated web-extracted evidence gathered 2026-10-26 — 394 iPhone Duo benchmark/test variants, 845 spec and price claims, and 846 foldable-peer comparison facts across Apple newsroom pages, PCMag, Tom’s Guide, AppleInsider, YouTube reviews and other independent hosts. Each displayed number is one extracted claim with its own source URL and count of corroborating URLs; results from different Geekbench versions or test conditions are never merged. Lower-confidence, unsourced, or mismatched extractions were cut for space. Figures measure benchmark scores, °C surface temperature, nits brightness, fps, hours, and US dollars.