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A16 in iPhone 14 Pro is 17% Faster Than A15 in iPhone 13 Pro in New Benchmark
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I hadn’t had an iPhone for years until o changed with the iPhone 13 Pro. The slow loading was noticeable easily. At first I tough it was the wifi but in my second device this didn’t happen. So I did the reset and voila, everything was working great again. You might confuse it with slow wifi though, it’s not easy to know the difference
The jump from A15 to A16 is kinda the same from A14 to A15 aka not very big.
A14 vs A15
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A15 vs A16 (still collecting data)
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Is it know the name of the cores already?
A14 was Firestorm and Icestorm
A15 was Avalanche and Blizzard
A14 vs A15
A15 Bionic vs A14 Bionic: tests and benchmarks
We put Apple A15 Bionic against A14 Bionic to find out which SoC is better. See performance comparison in benchmarks and games.
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A15 vs A16 (still collecting data)
A16 Bionic vs A15 Bionic: tests and benchmarks
We put Apple A16 Bionic against A15 Bionic to find out which SoC is better. See performance comparison in benchmarks and games.
nanoreview.net
Is it know the name of the cores already?
A14 was Firestorm and Icestorm
A15 was Avalanche and Blizzard
This exactly. I wish Apple would focus on making the iPhones cooler under heavier use. That should come with the 3nm chip and if they use a vapor chamber or whatever it is.
Don’t worry, the new iPhone will have a vapor chamber made of solid gold pressed latinum!
Better cooling under load and guess what?!
Apple will act as if they invented it. Or will say “ we’ve taken the vapor chamber and upped it a notch! Now the iPhone 15 will have 30% cooler nodes!
If you can't replace your ISP's wireless router, then connect your own via Ethernet. Don't be cheap. Bye a good one, and connect to its WiFi signal instead. Don't have them too close together, either. Wireless signals interfere with each other, which so many don't realize. Interference is a big reason for dropped signals.
Regarding the performance of the A16... go Apple! Let's see what the A16X will bring in a couple of months!
It does serve a purpose... If the CPU is faster under the same power envelope, then you will see better battery life for the same task since it will more quickly trickle into lower power consumption once the task is completed. People think it’s only about being faster but it isn’t... speed improvements in mobile chips usually also imply better power efficiency.
they may have that opinion but it doesn’t add up with what Apple stated about the performance cores also using 20% lower power. To have 9% improvement in single core performance while at the same time reducing core power in 20% would mean at face value at the very least 20% better efficiency. This is better than what the node transition could deliver (N5P > N4P): at same power consumption it would only deliver 6% improvement in performance implying 6% better efficiency. Only with further analysis can we better understand what happened.
To nitpick, A16 doesn't have a 9% improvement in single core performance. It is more like 7%, and part of that could be due to improvements in the performance of the efficiency cores, and the other part of that being the increase in clock speed of the performance cores as yields have improved from last year.
The lack of big performance gains is a function of TSMC failing to deliver their next node tech.
It also limited power efficiency gains and has caused costs to go up. These things limit new features.
This article goes into depth on Apple’s decision. And it correctly predicts pricing on the models as well.
It also limited power efficiency gains and has caused costs to go up. These things limit new features.
This article goes into depth on Apple’s decision. And it correctly predicts pricing on the models as well.
Whilst I agree with you (have a like), my iPhone used to be $600 not $2000AUd.
Fun fact: every number known to man was used in the title of this thread.
Could this mean the A16 is basically just the A15 with 4nm? So the performance improvements could be just increased clock speed? Is Apple facing a ceiling already?
I don’t think we will see an A16X, or any AnX anymore. The iPad Air and Pro will simply use the M2 onward, while the regular iPad and mini will use the same A chip as the iPhones.
Mainly the camera features. There is 4K cinema mode now or whatever, and maybe for being able to burst 48MP RAW photos. Otherwise IDK, for the few Pro buyers that will keep it until they stop giving it iOS updates so it's still running semi-ok?
Here you get both. Faster performance and less power usage.
Ha ha. The title is 1 word short of 18, to boot.
And 1 topic short of significance for the majority of “regular” users.
A little more editing work with a little less editing judgement could have given:
17% Faster Benchmark for A16 over A15: IPhone 14 Pro a Little Faster than iPhone 13 Pro!
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