"The smartphone SoC only holds an advantage in peak burst performance, however, and is utterly dominated under sustained workloads and on the GPU side."
Well we don't know that yet, until the phone is released on the 18th. Apple has made big changes to thermal conductivity. Plus, it's a phone. What you'll be doing on it won't be as demanding as what's on a desktop application.
Apple's newly revealed A20 Pro chipset on the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro phones is a proper heavyweight. The chipset has now surfaced on Geekbench 7 aboard what appears to be an iPhone 18 Pro Max, with single-core performance eclipsing that of the M5 Max on the current-gen MacBook Pro.