How the A16 chip in the iPhone 14 Pro will outperform the A15 in the iPhone 13

In theory, only iPhones with a surname Pro They will come with a new chip. According to reports, Apple would rather keep A15 Bionic iPhone 13 and 13 Pro in two base models iPhone 14 which may arrive during September. Instead, the expected iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Maximum will include A16 Bionic, a new generation that may come with improvements in terms of power and energy efficiency. But, will there be important differences?

There are few details about the Apple A16 Bionic chip at the moment. We do not know its technical characteristics, except manufacturing process or RAM architecture which will include the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. These data, however, MacWorld They seem to be more than enough to make some estimates of the performance improvement over the A15 Bionic in the iPhone 13 Pro Max.

According to rumors, the A16 Bionic chip will be manufactured by TSMC using a 5nm process technology. That is, the same architecture as the A15 Bionic chip. The company, yes, would choose 5nm 3rd generation process, which is codenamed “N4P”. While no major improvements are expected, there are slight changes in performance and power efficiency compared to TSMC’s original 5nm. In particular, the third generation of this architecture is expected to be 11% faster and 22% more efficient.

15% more performance on iPhone 14 Pro with new LPDDR5 RAM.

To the gradual improvements in speed and power efficiency that the new A16 Bionic chip manufacturing process will bring, we must add improvements that can occur in RAM.

Latest report from digital time, let’s remember, shows the iPhone 14 Pro will support 6GB of RAM, but with LPDDR5 architecture – remember the iPhone 13 Pro has LPDDR4X. This, again, represents an improvement in terms of performance and energy efficiency. Mac Worldin particular, calculates that the speed offered by LPDDR5 RAM This can improve the processor performance of the iPhone 14 Pro by 15% compared to its predecessors.

“Apple could move to LPDDR5 this year, which should improve memory bandwidth, and some other improvements combined with higher maximum clock speeds could see Apple improve performance by as much as 15 percent.”

provides Mac Worldin relation to the new RAM of the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max.

GPU up to 30% faster

In terms of graphics power, the aforementioned environment expects Apple to keep the same number of cores we see in the A15 Bionic GPU chip. So the A16 Bionic will ship with a GPU with 5 cores or a maximum of 6 cores. This, however, does not mean that we will not see improvements in this area. A possible additional core, as well as the rest of the previously mentioned improvements, such as new RAM or an improved manufacturing process, They can increase graphics power by 25% or 30% over current models.

In addition, the A16 Bionic chip may appear with important advances in his Neural Engine, a component used to solve AI-related problems. Also with more powerful image signal processor. All this with the aim of driving a new camera that can reach the iPhone 14 and 14 Pro. A component that can reportedly be up to 48 megapixels and will allow 8K video recording.