Apple’s A15 Bionic has amazing performance but not what we expected: here’s the reason

Apple has a habit of keeping many features under the table when it comes to its high-profile presentations as witnessed during the latest iPhone 13 presentation.

During the event, the Cupertino tech giant left out some of the key performance details about its latest and greatest chipset for mobile phones, the A15 Bionic.

However this time the reason behind the company hiding away information from us was simply not something small. As we know in the cases of its previous chipsets the technology giant boasted of tremendous compute performance gains compared to the custom silicon that came before it and the competition.

But according to the report, there is a lack of notable performance improvements in the Apple A15 Bionic in terms of graphics segment and this is due to Apple experiencing a severe brain drain of talented chip engineers.

We can say that A15 Bionic is still an amazing chip in terms of performance but the new silicon is only 40 percent faster than the A12 Bionic, but that silicon came out years ago.

This lack in performance is the result of a lack of qualified individuals who are focused to make the A15 Bionic the best chipset for any smartphone, all that Apple was left with was incorporating minor improvements.

“We believe Apple had to delay the next-generation CPU core due to all the personnel turnover Apple has been experiencing. Instead of a new CPU core, they are using a modified version of last year’s core.”

However, based on the situation at least Apple’s A15 Bionic has seen some good days, on other hand, the Apple Watch Series 7, uses the same S6 chip present in the Apple Watch Series 6, revealing a second time in a single event that we have yet to see brand new silicon in action

Coming to some good news, in a new test result in the A15 Bionic running in the iPhone 13 Pro was soundly beating the A14 Bionic in GPU tests, recording a 55 percent performance increase compared to last year’s GPU.

But still not up to the performance one would expect when compared to the GPUs offered by its competition especially since Samsung and AMD have now collaborated to launch the RDNA2 based GPU for smartphones.

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