How much does the A16 chip performance improve in the iPhone 14 Pro series?
According to rumors, the regular iPhone 14 and Max are not going to have a new chip this year, but the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max A16 chip They are equipped. As a result, we have to wait for the power upgrade of these two models compared to the products that use the A15 chip.
According to the website MacWorldthe A16 chip, probably with the third generation 5nm lithography, known as N4P it’s gonna be built. This naturally means that we can expect some increase in chip power, but this increase will be limited. N4P approx 11 percent in terms of power, 22 percent In terms of energy efficiency and 6 percent In terms of density, it will be better than N5’s 5nm lithography.
On the other hand, this chipset will probably be equipped with a faster memory. In a report, it was said that iPhone 14 Pro instead of LPDDR4 LPDDR5 will use Apple had previously used these memories in the M1 Pro and Max chips. The bandwidth of this memory is approx 50 percent It is more than the previous generation and works better in terms of energy consumption.
Probability of support ARMv9 It has also been mentioned, but it does not seem that this change will significantly increase the power of this chip. In total, you should probably wait for an increase 25 to 30 percent be GPU performance.
iPhone 14 Pro with 48 megapixel camera
One of the possible features of the iPhone 14 Pro that will require all the power of the chip is the sensor 48 megapixel camera It supports 8K video recording. Famous Apple analysts Ming-Chi Kuo and Jeff Po expect this sensor to be the main camera of the next-generation iPhone. Therefore, it can be said that the majority of the excess power of this chip is dedicated to image processing and artificial intelligence.
Although the Cupertinos are developing their own modem, the product is not yet ready for release and they still have to use Qualcomm’s modem. A16 chipset most likely with modem Snapdragon X65 It will be included, but it is not yet clear whether the regular iPhone 14 models will also receive this new modem or not.