According to the most recent source, a “improved” A15 Bionic chip from Apple may be coming for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. As the majority of our readers are aware, the tech giant may be modifying its approach and equipping the more expensive iPhone models with quicker and more energy-efficient silicon, in this case, the A16 Bionic for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
This “improved” A15 Bionic SoC is discussed in an article by Tim Higgins that was published in The Wall Street Journal. The same chip would be included in the aforementioned devices and would offer marginally better performance than the A15 Bionic powering the iPhone 13 models, according to what we previously indicated. Unfortunately, Higgins failed to mention any characteristics of this chipset that would explain its ‘improved’ capabilities in this instance.
In 2021, Apple released two A15 Bionic models.
The less expensive iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini were to receive the 4-core GPU version, while the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max were to receive the 5-core GPU version. The iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max saw a performance increase of 55% over the A14 Bionic GPU thanks to the one GPU core differential.
Comparatively, the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini only saw a small 15% improvement in performance. Additionally, the A15 Bionic’s high-performance CPU cores were designed to run at 3.23GHz by default, but for whatever reason, those cores were downclocked to 2.99GHz when used in the iPad mini 6, creating technically three variants. Apple is reusing an earlier semiconductor in order to reduce costs, so even if the corporation employed elaborate marketing strategies and labelled the A15 Bionic for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus as “improved,” that reality would still stand.
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