A16 in iPhone 14 Pro is 17% Faster Than A15 in iPhone 13 Pro in New Benchmark

[MacRumors]

An early benchmark for the A16 chip in the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max suggested only modest speed improvements, but an additional score uploaded to Geekbench today indicates that we could see a more significant jump in performance compared to the A15 chip.

The A16 chip in the iPhone 14 Pro that was benchmarked earned a single core score of 1887, a 10.5 percent improvement over the 1707 score earned by the A15 in the iPhone 13 Pro.

As for multi-core performance, there are notable speed gains. The A16 earned a multi-core score of 5455, up 17.1 percent from the 4659 score earned by the A15 chip.

The result that we saw earlier this week from an iPhone 14 Pro Max suggested that multi-core performance was at around 4664, which would put the A16 barely over the A15 in terms of performance. Given that the A16 is running on an updated 4-nanometer process compared to the 5-nanometer process of the A15, the latest score shared today is more in line with expectations. Multi-core performance could perhaps even be somewhat higher if the iPhone that was benchmarked is still going through its initial setup process and uploading content to iCloud.

Apple's A16 chip is limited to the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, and we'll need additional benchmarks to get a better average for what we can expect in terms of performance improvements. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are still using the A15 chip from last year, but with the 5-core GPU that was originally limited to the iPhone 13 Pro models.

Article Link: A16 in iPhone 14 Pro is 17% Faster Than A15 in iPhone 13 Pro in New Benchmark

 

[CarletonTorpin]

From a strictly-numerical perspective, this is the funnest MacRumors article title yet.

 

[d5aqoëp]

Not disappointing as such. But Geekbench gas always been biased in favour of Apple Devices.

 

[dlewis23]

That looks better for the multi core from the result from yesterday.

 

[sw1tcher]

17% faster in synthetic tests, but hardly noticeable in real world use. But some will upgrade regardless.

 

[ufgatorvet]

Yawn

Where are all the "-gate" threads!

 

[and 1989 others]

Had anybody since the iphone X ever even questioned how fast their phones processing speed is? I haven't, the one thing that irks me is the stupid wifi dropping and that down to my ISP and not the phone.

 

[mathiasdk1]

Considering Moore's Law, this is actually quite unimpressive, right?

 

[falkon-engine]

What's the name of the new perf/efficiency cores in the new iPhone? 17% bump in multicore is pretty good.

 

[XXPP]

Considering Moore's Law, this is actually quite unimpressive, right?

No reason for faster processor. Power consumption is much more important.

 

[FasterQuieter]

If it is true that the performance is around 20% faster, it was an interesting choice for Apple not to tell us. Perhaps they didn't want to make the A15 appear inferior to buyers.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Not disappointing as such. But Geekbench gas always been biased in favour of Apple Devices.

Does it even matter in this case? As long as it’s not biased in favor of certain Apple Devices over others, it’s still a valid comparison in relative terms.

 

[citysnaps]

17% faster in synthetic tests, but hardly noticeable in real world use. But some will upgrade regardless.

Yeah... probably a pretty decent percentage of the 600,000+ iPhones Apple manufactures and sells every day of the year (on the average).

 

[ilikewhey]

my iphone 13 pro has a higher score than the one used in this testing?

 

[geartau]

but i was told apple is doing planned obsolescence.

 

[vegetassj4]

From a strictly-numerical perspective, this is the funnest MacRumors article title yet.

Ad I caught it when it was posted "12 minutes ago!"

 

[Mr. Awesome]

I love that this headline has 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 in it. 😂

 

[Orizaba]

No reason for faster processor. Power consumption is much more important.

Agreed, I feel like they are focused more on efficiency especially with an always-on display. Any performance gains are icing on the cake.

 

[mathiasdk1]

No reason for faster processor. Power consumption is much more important.

Point taken. But until now, it seemed like performance and power consumption improved hand in hand. Something like 20-40% improvement per year. And batteries must have improved and continually improving.

 

[Htsi]

Wont be noticeable, but I’m still excited to get the new island lol

 

[macduke]

Considering Moore's Law, this is actually quite unimpressive, right?

I mean, for ages Intel wasn’t following Moore’s law and only increasing by a few percent per year.

Phones are quite thermally constrained. Apple balances clock against new features. Six new features of this iPhone that impact battery life and therefore core clock/thermal constraints: always on display, brighter display, hour of extra battery life, 4K Cinema mode, 48MP RAW photos, and Dynamic Island widgets always running.

You can’t get everything magically. And even yet, this is the fastest smartphone chip in the world. I don’t even think the old A15 has been passed yet. So 17% improvement on the fastest phone chip in the world is extremely impressive, IMO.

 

[Hkfan45]

Wow. Apple is really trying to convince me not to upgrade. Well done, Apple. No usb c. Usb 2.0 speeds. 6GB RAM. It’s 2014 android!

 

[BeatCrazy]

17% faster in synthetic tests, but hardly noticeable in real world use. But some will upgrade regardless.

No one is upgrading year-over-year phones to get a faster processor. It's usually for the camera, possibly storage, or maybe the always-on display.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Considering Moore's Law, this is actually quite unimpressive, right?

Moose’s law is about the number of transistors doubling every 2 years or so, not necessarily about the performance (although it tends to also increase with the transistor count albeit at a somewhat inconsistent rate). 2 years ago the a14’s transistor count was around 11 billion and the a16’s count is 16 billion. 2 years before that the a12 had 7 billion. The slower increase is not too surprising given Apple’s emphasis on efficiency over power with the 13 and 14.

 

[kanki1985]

What a time we live in, a close to 20% improvement in processing speed is made to sound unimpressive.. There was a time when Intel took 2-3 generations to achieve 20% speed increase!!