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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Sep 11 2024 11:15:05

The iPhone 16s A18 chip looks to only be a small upgrade on the iPhone 15s 
A16 Bionic

Date:
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:59:15 +0000

Description:
A Geekbench listing for the iPhone 16 includes a reasonable single-core 
result and a poor multi-core one.

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If you were hoping for massive performance gains from the A18 chipset in the 
iPhone 16 , you might be out of luck, as a benchmark suggests there are only 
small improvements. 

A Geekbench listing spotted by 9to5Mac includes a single-core result of 3,114 
and a multi-core result of 6,666. This is for a phone with the identifier 
iPhone17,3, which is believed to be the base iPhone 16. 

In any case, for comparison, the iPhone 15 has an average single-core result 
of 2,541 and an average multi-core of 6,325. So that would make for a 
reasonable upgrade this year in the single-core score but a fairly small 
multi-core increase. (Image credit: Geekbench) 

And neither of these scores seem to match Apples claims for the chip, as the 
company has said it has a CPU thats up to 30% faster and a GPU thats up to 
40% faster than the A16 Bionic. 

And of course, the A16 Bionic is a two-year old chip. If we compare these 
results to the average scores of the iPhone 15 Pro and its one-year-old A17 
Pro chipset, things look a lot worse, at least in terms of multi-core 
results. 

That phone achieves an average single-core score of 2,896, so the A18 has 
that beat, but its multi-core average is much higher at 7,192. Newer but 
maybe not better 

So for most demanding tasks the A17 Pro is probably a better chipset than the 
A18. Thats not entirely surprising, but it does feel sneaky of Apple, as the 
company can highlight that the iPhone 16 has a newer chipset with a bigger 
number in the name, while actually its less impressive than the chipset 
launched by the company last year. 

Of course, the A18 Pro used by the iPhone 16 Pro and the iPhone 16 Pro Max 
will likely perform a lot better, so well be interested in seeing benchmarks 
for that. And since this is just one benchmark listing its possible that the 
scores here wont prove representative of what the A18 is capable of. But 
based on this initial result it doesnt seem like a very impressive upgrade. 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/the-iphone-16s-a18-chip-looks-to-only-
be-a-small-upgrade-on-the-iphone-15s-a16-bionic


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