Other Is A16 faster than A15?

[iBug2]

Apple doesn't say how much faster it is than A15, a first. It's 16 billion transistors vs 15 billion, not a huge increase.

I'm betting that the major advantage of A16 will be power efficiency for the similar A15 speeds. Maybe it'll be 5% faster in Geekbench.

 

[JPack]

N4 offers very little power efficiency over N5P. I think the main advantage will be the LPDDR5 memory bandwidth which benefits gaming and video editing.

 

[leman]

I agree, seems to be a power-efficiency focused release. Makes perfect sense too, Apple is so far ahead of competition in terms of performance, it’s good choice to push for an advantage in battery.

 

[Homme]

This could be true. If it is oh god at the huge boost of multi core

 

[JPack]

This could be true. If it is oh god at the huge boost of multi core

Want to believe, but it's something Apple would likely have presented if true.

 

[donth8]

It seems true, after going thru the first 110 pages of recent results I found 4 entries for the iPhone15,3:

iPhone15,3 - Geekbench

Benchmark results for an iPhone15,3 with an ARM processor.

browser.geekbench.com

iPhone15,3 - Geekbench

Benchmark results for an iPhone15,3 with an ARM processor.

browser.geekbench.com

iPhone15,3 - Geekbench

Benchmark results for an iPhone15,3 with an ARM processor.

browser.geekbench.com

iPhone15,3 - Geekbench

Benchmark results for an iPhone15,3 with an ARM processor.

browser.geekbench.com

 

[donth8]

They raised the clock speed to 3.45ghz which gives about a 7% improvement in single score. Multi core we get about a 13% improvement not too shabby at all, especially if they lowered the power consumption.

 

[Homme]

Want to believe, but it's something Apple would likely have presented if true.

From donth8’s links it seems to be true

I’m shocked though at a 900-1000 improvement score in multi core

#RIPQualcomm

 

[Tsepz]

From donth8’s links it seems to be true

I’m shocked though at a 900-1000 improvement score in multi core

#RIPQualcomm

Yeah, I think it’s going to be a long time before they ever manage to catch up if the A13 is where they are still at.
The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 saw a nice efficiency increase by going TSMC.

 

[leman]

This bodes well for Apple Silicon Macs.

 

[neinjohn]

If true we went from for 20% jump on single-core from A14 to A16 without going out from TSMC 5/4 and upped the clock without pumping the power draw out of the 5W target.

If the A-SoC's performance increase translates well to the M-SoCs it would translate to 2100 score in Geekbench on single-core. From the comparison, the A14 to A15 and M1 to M2, the performance as matched and a little better on the M-SoCs.

In the end, Apple would be keeping up with competition desktop class CPUs without upgrading nodes and keeping their 2x/4x advantage on perf/W.