Today we came across the presumed performance leak of the next top-of-the-range SoC Applehe A17 Bionic. Despite the fact that we find a performance test linked to a SoC, it is still in prototype phasethe performance leap that the company would present it would be huge, if true. These improvements are due to a new architecture. And of course, being the first SoC on the market to take advantage of the manufacturing process at 3 nm from TSMC.
As you will see below, the futures iPhone 15 Pro will bring noticeable performance improvements. These are so large that they could once again make a noticeable difference compared to the rest of the SoC Arm manufacturers for the Android ecosystem. Unfortunately, there is no direct link to the benchmarkso we will have to take the information with the tweezers.
The Apple A17 Bionic would be up to 59% faster than the Apple A16
If the information is true, this prototype is already bringing huge performance improvements. In essence, this huge jump will pull ground the aspirations of other manufacturers like Qualcomm or MediaTek to match short-term performance. Apple has designed its own chips to take a noticeable leap in performance rather than settle for what the industry has to offer. It must be remembered that this movement has also been carried out in the business of tablets, laptops and desktops with its Apple M Series processors. If the Apple M3 offer a similar performance leapNote that AMD and Intel have more reasons to worry.
Getting back to the topic at hand, an alleged Geekbench 6 leak revealed that the Apple A17 Bionic would have achieved a single-core performance of 3,986 points. This represents a huge leap in performance. 59 percent. Specifically, the iPhone 14 Pro Max moves on 2,493 points.
If we talk about multicore performance, this SoC launching the 8,841 points. This represents a 43% increase compared to the 6,173 points of the current top-of-the-range iPhone. Most interesting of all, is that all these performance improvements would be linked to a decrease in energy consumption and, therefore, improve the autonomy of the device.
The most powerful SoC for the most expensive iPhones
Whether or not the final performance of this SoC, what is assured is that the most powerful SoC will only be present on the most advanced smartphones of the company. Specific, los iPhone 15 y iPhone 15 Plus will settle for reusing the current Apple A16. Thus, the Apple A17 will be exclusive to the iPhone 15 Proand of the iPhone 15 Ultraif it also really exists.
The reason for this is the extremely limited production of chips at 3 nm by TSMC. Although Apple has the exclusivity, it is indicated that TSMC would be manufacturing between 50,000 and 55,000 wafers per month. Of course, it is unknown what percentage of yield these wafers have, but the yield rate is expected to be low in this first stage of production. This is also added to “justify” the price difference in exchange for more features.
