iPhone releases new products every year, and Apple fans change their phones every year, which seems to have become a step-by-step thing. Why is the author now put forward the view that "there is actually no need to exchange for iPhone 13 for ordinary 14"?
First of all, let’s explain what is Pu14. Pu14 is iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 plus. The 14 Pro series refers to the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro max.
At 1 a.m. on September 8, Beijing time, when the Spring Festival Gala in the technology circle slowly kicked off, Apple's classic saying "performance has increased significantly xxx% compared to the previous generation" did not appear like in previous years. As a senior digital enthusiast, the author was very alert to the fact that Apple's official official was a little guilty. After
, the comparison of specific parameters and indicators proves that the author's intuition is correct. The so-called guilt comes from the "different qualities of the same generation" of the Pu 14 and 14 Pro series.
Picture: The new iPhone 14 product
The performance of the Pro series is different, but what is terrible is that the basic performance of the Pu 14 has not improved significantly compared with the iPhone 13 series. Specifically, there are three aspects.
1. The running performance of ordinary 14 is not improved compared to the iPhone 13 series
We usually use mobile phones or computers, and we can clearly feel the difference in the performance of the machine from the aspects of booting speed, opening the App speed, and running smoothness of the App. These are mainly related to the CPU . In order to distinguish from the graphics processing performance determined by the GPU, we call this performance closely related to daily use the operational performance.
For mobile phones, the CPU and GPU are packaged in the same SoC chip. For example, in Pu14, a SoC chip called Apple A15 is used, and in the iPhone 13 series, a SoC chip called Apple A15 is used.
, etc., have the author written a typo? How could both generations of mobile phones use the same chip? Since the author himself discovered it, it must be true. Cook really equipped the Pu 14 with a chip like the iPhone 13 series.
If you have to say the difference, it is that the A15 chip of Pu13 is a slightly reduced version, with only 4 GPU cores, while the A15 of Pu14 and 13 Pro is a full-blooded version, with 5 GPU cores (in addition, Pu13's running memory is also smaller, which will affect performance when running large apps.) Therefore, it can be considered that the performance of Pu14 in all aspects is exactly the same as that of 13 Pro. What is the impact of
, a missing GPU core? As mentioned earlier, GPU affects graphics processing performance, or rather, gaming performance. From my experience, in most iPhone games, we cannot perceive the difference between a 4-core GPU and a 5-core GPU.
Looking at the iteration history of Apple mobile phones, it is not difficult to find that the replacement of mobile phones and the chip remains unchanged, which is definitely the first time. The iPhone 14 series models launched this year have experienced unprecedented generation differentiation on chips. If consumers just want to experience the new generation of A16 chips, they can only buy the 14 Pro series - because only the 14 Pro series is equipped with the latest A16 bionic chip. The
A16 bionic chip is highly anticipated by the industry. This is Apple's first chip built on the 4nm process technology. According to Apple, the chip integrates nearly 16 billion transistors, which is the most iPhone chips so far, and it excels from speed to energy efficiency. Data released by Antutu Performance Test (Score Software) also shows that the performance of A16 is only about 18% higher than that of A15.
Figure: Antutu Running Score vs.
From the data level, compared with iPhone 13, the hardware performance improvement of Pu 14 and 14 Pro is not as expected. So it's not difficult to understand why on the Spring Festival Gala of the tech circle, when Apple's senior vice president of global marketing talked about the performance improvement of the A16 chip, it actually compared it with the A13 years ago, oh My God. At first, the author really thought it was a hearing problem.
The mutual evidence of the data and details is not difficult to see that Apple is really guilty without any concealment.
Picture: Comparison of A13 chip with A16
(official diagram of Apple press conference)
2. Only the 14 Pro series has 48-megapixel camera
Asked about the biggest expectations of Apple fans for the new iPhone in 2022, many people will mention "higher pixels". Unfortunately, if you want to experience 48-megapixels, only the high-end 14 Pro series has it. It is not difficult to find that the camera of 14 is only 12 million pixels. It would be fine if the chips are not as good as the 14 Pro series, after all, the performance gap is not big, and the camera pixels are so different, which makes Apple fans feel so disappointed. You should know that in the 2022 scenario where the mobile phone industry can no longer be rolled, a mobile phone with a starting price of 5,999 yuan, with only 12 million pixels, will make enthusiasts feel embarrassed and restless.
Nowadays, we can no longer buy flagship Android phones with the main camera pixel less than 48 million pixels. Among the Android phones that have been released by , moto X30 Pro has first released 200 million pixels. However, there have been rumors that it will use at least three models such as Samsung and Xiaomi. The 100 million pixels are already full of climbs; even the RYYB sensor, which has been criticized for its low pixels, has been upgraded to 50 million pixels on Huawei Mate 50.
3. National Xingpu 14 does not support satellite communications
Another highlight of the iPhone 14 series products released by Apple this time is that it has added satellite communication function. In places where mobile communications are difficult to cover, you can use your mobile phone to send location information through satellite communications. If you are in distress, you are expected to be rescued.
According to the existing information, "iPhone models purchased in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau" do not support satellite-send emergency SOS services. Therefore, the satellite communications that some media have hotly hyped are not a part of the Chinese.
The smart guy may have to say: Then I can buy an American version of iPhone 14 to use it in the country?
Reality will slap you in the face even more cruelly - this time the American version of iPhone 14 does not even have a phone card slot, and this time it only supports e-SIM. Several major domestic operators currently only allow smart watches to use e-SIM, and the e-SIM function of mobile phones has never been opened. It is only today that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is organizing research and promoting the application of eSIM technology on smartphones and other devices.
From the above, we can see that iPhone 13 has changed to ordinary 14, but it does not improve quality. If you want to truly enjoy the technological power of Apple iteration (especially the Dynamic Island, which has caused a lot of topics), you can only embrace Pro.
