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

[BorisDG]

14-17% is still impressive. The jump from A14 to A15 was similar if not less with much more transistors (prob coming from the cache increase)

Usually the most common part of CPU which brings lots of transistors is the cache. Here we have still same L2/SLC pool and we have +1 billion. In the past from every other generation there was uplift of L2/SLC cache ie the big transistor count jump.

 

[chucker23n1]

No. A "buffed" core would still get a new name.

No it wouldn’t. A9X cores didn’t get different names than A9 cores.

I’m not sure why you’re so hung up on “it can’t be a new microarchitecture”. There’s little evidence it isn’t.

 

[EugW]

No it wouldn’t. A9X cores didn’t get different names than A9 cores.

I’m not sure why you’re so hung up on “it can’t be a new microarchitecture”. There’s little evidence it isn’t.

A9X is the same core as A9.

I'm not saying A16 is not different from A15. I'm just saying it's likely a small iterative difference from the previous core, and probably less of a difference than most other core generations. However, if someone can prove it's an ARMv9 core, then that would indicate it's a more significant difference.

 

[MobiusStrip]

Steve Jobs Ghost is tap dancing in Tim Cookes brain right now.
If he were here every two generations we would have had something amazingly different

Like what? At some point a product category is mature. I mean... where are the innovations in word processors, huh?

 

[EugW]

I don't know if this is legit or not, but Nanoreview.net is reporting an A16 Antutu score from a few days ago, with a 7.5% increase from A16.

Apple A16 Bionic: specs and benchmarks

Apple A16 Bionic: performance tests in benchmarks (AnTuTu 10, GeekBench 6). Battery life and full specifications.

nanoreview.net

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

 

[BorisDG]

I shared this few days ago. Their early information are not up to date. Was same with A14 vs A15. I took them few weeks to put the right resutls. Even the tech data is not actual/right.

 

[BorisDG]

Latest Apple A16 Bionic benchmarks show a 28% GPU performance boost over the A15 Bionic

The new Apple A16 Bionic on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max has now made the journey over to AnTuTu for performance testing, with the benchmark officially revealing CPU and GPU test scores for the new chipset.

www.notebookcheck.net

CPU ~+15%
GPU ~+28%

Impressive.