is different from the previous generation of one-core. This year, the iPhone 14 series of Apple is not equipped with the latest A16 bionic processor, but instead uses the previous generation A15 on the standard version of the iPhone 14 series. A16 has become the exclusive to the iPhone 14 Pro series.
. In this regard, many netizens speculated that this is Apple’s move to distinguish the performance gap between the standard version and the Pro series. So how much difference is the performance of the A15 and A16? We used the iPhone 13 Pro Max equipped with the full blood version of A15 to compare and test the iPhone 14 Pro Max equipped with A16 to find out.
01 Performance test, there is really no need to blow up A16
First of all, we use GeekBench to test the running scores of A15 and A16:
left iPhone 13 Pro Max, right iPhone 14 Pro Max
can be seen that in GeekBench, the A16 chip of iPhone 14 Pro Max has an actual CPU single-core running score of 1864 points and the CPU multi-core running score of 5379 points. Whether it is single-core or multi-core, it has not improved significantly compared to A15.
. In the well-known performance testing game " Genshin Impact ", we fully loaded the picture quality and used iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone 14 Pro Max to conduct a 20-minute running image test in Liyue Port. The results are as follows:
iPhone 13 Pro Max "Genshin Impact" test
iPhone 14 Pro Max "Genshin Impact" test
You can see that iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone 14 Pro Max's average frame rate is 58.9 frames, the frame rate curve fluctuates slightly, and there is no significant frame reduction throughout the whole process, and the experience is basically the same.
02 A16 is just the first step for Apple to squeeze toothpaste
After reading the actual test part, let’s talk about Apple’s A16 bionic processor this year.
A16 is created by TSMC's 4nm process process . The CPU part has 6 cores, including 2 performance cores and 4 energy efficiency cores, and the GPU part is composed of 5 core image processing cores. In addition, the A16 also has a built-in 16-core neural network engine, ISP, display engine, etc.
In terms of process technology, since TSMC's 3nm process technology failed to achieve mass production at the beginning of the year, Apple adopted a 5nm small facelifted 4nm process technology to create the A16, which means that there will not be much performance gap between the A16 using the 4nm process technology and the A15 using the 5nm process technology. What’s more important is that while there is no major improvement in the process, Apple has not upgraded its performance by stacking materials on A16 through upgrading its architecture. Judging from the official website, A16 has "nearly 16 billion transistors", which looks scary, but in fact, on the full-blooded A15 of the iPhone 13 Pro series, it has reached the level of "nearly 15 billion transistors ", so Apple has almost no stacking behavior in A16.
Review the content at Apple's press conference. The official cleverly used A16 and A13 from three years ago to compare with competitors, and said that the CPU of A16 is 40% faster than competitors, and this competitor is lower than Apple's A13 chip. So let's be bold and ignore this competitor. According to the 40% increase in A16 over A13, Apple's A16 this year is basically "staying in place".
In addition, it is basically difficult to find promotional pages about the excessive performance of A16 on the promotional page of Apple’s official website. It can be seen that Apple does not want to promote the A16 chip too much this time.
According to the future advanced process roadmap released by TSMC, we can also see the future performance trend of Apple's A-series chips.
TSMC said that it will stay for three years from the N3 process to the N2 process. This means that if Apple cannot come up with a brand new architecture, it will inevitably be inevitable that Apple will "squeeze toothpaste" in the next three years. The performance gap between A17, A18 and even A19 will not be too big. It will not be until the A20 in 2026 have the opportunity to adopt the new N2 process.
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From our actual tests, there is no obvious difference in performance between the iPhone 13 Pro Max equipped with the full-blooded version of A15 and the iPhone 14 Pro Max equipped with the A16.So if you are using the iPhone 13 series, if you are pursuing performance, you can wait next year to use the N3 process to carry the A17 iPhone 15 Pro series; if you are using iPhone 12 or even older products and want to pursue performance experience, then the iPhone 14 Pro Max is worth buying.
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