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>According to Geekbench 5 scores, the iPhone 14 Pro has a 1,879 Single-Core Score, while it has a 4,664 Multi-Core Score. Compared to the iPhone 13 Pro benchmark test, the predecessor of the iPhone 14 Pro has a 1,797 Single-Core Score and a 4,659 Multi-Core Score.

>With this test, we know the A16 Bionic chip performs 10% faster in a single core compared to its previous model,

Um.... What? 1879 / 1797 is less than 5% speedup. How the hell did they arrive at 10% number?

I would not be surprised if A16 CPU is merely a die shrink of A15 with slightly higher peak frequency.

From the announcement:

>New Apple A16 Bionic SoC

Focusing on power efficiency, display, and camera

High-perf cores are faster and use 20% less power than the A15

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17563/the-apple-2022-fall-iph...

Just a reminder that Apple is playing a different game than it's competitors and is focused on improving performance per watt as the most important metric.

Yes but what percentage of that is from simply moving to a new tsmc node?
Intel would have called N4 a + node, since it's a tweak to TSMC's existing n5 node. They don't put a hard number on power savings, but they have said it's a 6% die shrink.

Apple also targeted performance per watt last year without a node change.

>In our extensive testing, we’re elated to see that it was actually mostly an efficiency focus this year, with the new performance cores showcasing adequate performance improvements, while at the same time reducing power consumption, as well as significantly improving energy efficiency.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...