No.

Geekbenchmark is a bad test. It does a series of short burst tests spaced out over time. These avoid harsh thermal throttling on mobile devices, yet on larger desktops they don't register as a heavy workload so the maximum clock doesn't come into play. Bigger chips will stay down clocked.

Effectively what Geekbenchmark's result ends benchmarking sleep state transition speed.

Desktop/Laptops don't spin up/down as fast as cellphones so this heavily favors them. Just doing a continuous long test would heavily favor desktops/laptops as they have better designed heatsinks.

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iPhones do have great processors, just fair mobile/desktop test are very hard. They are different chips, that require different power, change clock states in different ways, and have different thermal constraints.

The core workloads in most scenarios are very different, so fair for one isn't fair for another.

Transistor count is a limited metric. That said, the A11 supposedly has 4.3 billion transistors, which is more than IBM's 12-core POWER8 chip's count. Apples to oranges, since the A11 has far more application-specific circuitry and much lower power consumption & clock speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

Ps: should be noted that the embedded GPU in the A11 contributes many transistors.

Yes it is, at least when using Geekbench as a measure. The A11 beats some of the Intel processors in the 2017 MacBook Pro models.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/13/a11-bionic-chip-geekben...