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Apple A18 Pro

Apple A18 Pro
  • GPU: Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Cores: 6
  • Clock: 4050 MHz
Apple A18 Pro – an 6-core chipset that was announced on September 9, 2024, and is manufactured using a 3-nanometer process technology. It has 2 cores Everest at 4050 MHz and 4 cores Sawtooth at 2420 MHz.

Review

CPU Performance
87
Gaming Performance
66
Battery life
97
NanoReview Score
82
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Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Apple A18 Pro
1782199
CPU 521852
GPU 562674
Memory 187942
UX 509731
Total score 1782199
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GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
3570
Multi-Core Score
8923
Asset compression 299.9 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 191.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 196.8 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 319.6 images/sec
HDR 289.5 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 37.6 images/sec
Photo processing 91 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.03 Mpixels/sec
Samples 14 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
33278
Background blur 62.5 images/sec
Face detection 78.2 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.98 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.5 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.49 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 100 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 3659.7 FPS
API Metal
Samples 7 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
1732
Score 1732
Stability 71%
Graphics test 13 FPS
3DMark Solar Bay
7585
Score 7585
Graphics test 29 FPS
Section 1 35 FPS
Section 2 30 FPS
Section 3 21 FPS

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-27 (FontFrontPromptORG)Geekbench 7 CPU3087 / 8369
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-23 -> RappzzzzAnTuTu 112043169
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-20 (thuanday)AnTuTu 112043169
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-17 (Jonibek)AnTuTu 111692383
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-21 (Neuron)AnTuTu 111500141
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-21 (l1tsemerr)AnTuTu 111650968
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-15 (Anton)AnTuTu 111782199
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-04 (Rain)Geekbench 6 CPU3656 / 9628
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Smartphones

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Phones with A18 ProAnTuTu v11
1. Apple iPhone 16 Pro1801176
2. Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max1750331

Specifications

Detailed specifications of the A18 Pro SoC with Apple A18 Pro GPU graphics

CPU

Architecture 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Cores 6
Frequency 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB
L2 cache 16 MB
Process 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 10 W
Manufacturing TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Apple A18 Pro GPU
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 1490 MHz
Pipelines 6
Shading units 128
Total shaders 768
FLOPS 2289 Gigaflops

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance 35 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 3750 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 60 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type NVMe
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP
Video capture 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X71 5G
4G support LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7
Bluetooth 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced September 2024
Class Flagship
Model number APL1V07
Successor - Apple A19 Pro

Comparison with competitors

1. Apple A18 Pro vs Apple A17 Pro (19)
2. Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) (146)
3. Apple A18 Pro vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (46)
4. Apple A18 Pro vs Apple A16 Bionic (1)
5. Apple A18 Pro vs Apple A18 (33)
6. Apple A18 Pro vs Apple A15 Bionic
7. Apple A18 Pro vs Apple M4 (iPad) (14)
8. Apple A18 Pro vs MediaTek Dimensity 9400 (60)
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PocoX7Users March 29, 2026 at 10:28 PM
At end of the day, i can say this site is SLIGHTLY "ruined". A18 Pro and 8 Elite has 11 points of difference? What... R u crazy? A18 better than A18 Pro... A18 Pro worser than A16 Bionic... A18 Pro SAME AS Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (which is slightly worser than A18 Pro) Well, good job. Δ°m quitting this site
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Serhii March 30, 2026 at 05:53 AM
Appreciate your useful comment. I will check specs and benchmarks to fix any issue.
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PocoX7Users March 30, 2026 at 02:35 PM
Serhii, Appreciate to ur fix, i was mad sorry.
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PocoX7Users March 29, 2026 at 07:38 PM
HOLY UNFAIRNESS, BRO! THIS CPU IS LEVEL 8 ELITE, AND IT'S BEHIND LEVEL 8 ELITE BY 11 POINTS?? HOW IS A18 BETTER THAN A18 PRO BY 3 POINTS…
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Serhii March 30, 2026 at 05:58 AM
I'll take a look at the data now to figure out what the problem is. Thank you.
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PocoX7Users March 30, 2026 at 02:35 PM
Serhii, Thanks. May you can make A18 Pro a bit higher.
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RoBot July 15, 2025 at 01:07 PM
Apple A18 Pro CPU internals: 2 x P-cores 192 KB Instruction cache + 128 KB Data cache 16 MB shared L2 cache 4 x E-cores 128 KB Instruction cache + 64 KB Data cache 4 MB shared L2 cache 24 MB SLC (shared by CPU, GPU, NPU, etc.)
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Serhii July 17, 2025 at 08:09 AM
Thank you, RoBot. It is useful.
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stephen April 26, 2025 at 05:08 AM
How much And do you accept any instalment
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Jay December 6, 2024 at 11:04 PM
While A18 pro single core 3400-3600, and multi core 8000-9700 is very impressive please note however that this boost is due to the Armv9 architecture against the 8 elite using the old Armv8
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fuuk1 December 9, 2024 at 05:39 AM
It's not architecture dependent when chip designers know what they're doing with custom designing the cores. Apple has always been ahead when it comes to single core performance while Qualcomm and Mediatek are always ahead on multi core performance compared to Apple. You just wanna convince others that your big favourite Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite didn't lose on something to meanie little Apple A18/Pro with any weak biased argument.
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Berg January 18, 2025 at 09:25 AM
Snapdragon 8 elite actually uses armv9 it all started since 8 gen 1
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SoC fan March 9, 2025 at 08:19 PM
fuuk1, Well since android focuses more on multi-core since most apps uses those
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Truth November 14, 2024 at 07:20 PM
Next year Apple should bring their most efficient 2nm M5 processors to their iphone . And this will put the power in mobile phone to the next level πŸ”₯
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Learner November 15, 2024 at 03:42 AM
M5 processors in a iphone , that' really a PC level power and performance . And then just waiting for PC level professional application support in a mobile device . And that's how a PC era is end πŸ”š
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Enthusiast November 28, 2024 at 04:45 AM
It is possible to give an m5 processor or m6 processor to a mobile device . Because it's based on TSMC 's upcoming 2nm and 1.6nm fabrication technology . These chips will be super efficient and super powerful .
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News lover November 30, 2024 at 02:02 AM
Apple will not be having 2nm processer for M5, as revealed today. However, that doesn't mean that it won't arrive for iPhone.
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PVzzz January 21, 2025 at 02:03 PM
If they do that they will waste money. Apple's M chips are just A chips with less TDP restraint due to more of the same CPU cores, and GPU cores.
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Blue January 23, 2025 at 09:30 PM
"power" is the main category. They need to be efficient enough for a phone.
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Sina October 30, 2024 at 02:32 PM
Memory frequency is incorrect. This memory spec gives 120GB/s!! 100% increased!! Apple said it increased by 17%. So, Memory frequency is almost 3750MHz.
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Aaron October 29, 2024 at 04:51 PM
Latest Geekbench Score Says Iphone 16 pro series max score is 3394 & 8373
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Steve’s sisters friend of a friend November 4, 2024 at 05:11 AM
That isnt max score, i average way higher than that
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Aaron October 29, 2024 at 04:45 PM
I think Owner of this Site is an apple Fan
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Someone out there January 18, 2025 at 09:03 AM
I second thatπŸ‘ So much biased rating and score, especially against Snapdragon and MediaTek
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Alif October 22, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Geekbench single core is 3600 not 3300 please admin correct it.
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Serhii October 23, 2024 at 06:07 AM
Geekbench results updated. Thank you for an info.
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Steve’s great aunt October 24, 2024 at 05:34 AM
Serhii, Hello, do you mind changing the 16PM geekbench scores too? I usually average 8600-8900 in geekbench and i am able to show proof
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DCS October 5, 2024 at 01:25 AM
Apple A18 Pro 2 x P-Cores sharing 16 MB of L2 Cache at 4.03 GHz 4 x E-Cores sharing 4 MB of L2 Cache at 4.42 GHz 6 GPU Shader Cores 24 MB System Level Cache Apple A18 2 x P-Cores sharing 8 MB of L2 Cache at 4.01 GHz 4 x E-Cores sharing 4 MB of L2 Cache at 4.42 GHz 5 GPU Shader Cores 12 MB System Level Cache
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akp831 September 30, 2024 at 05:15 PM
Max Flops (in FP32) = 2.580 Tflops Flops: Floating Operations Per second
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¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ October 16, 2024 at 06:54 AM
How is bro's comment getting this much upvotes? 😭
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Berg January 18, 2025 at 09:26 AM
¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯, Bots pretty much, the user is even a bot
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akp831 February 4, 2025 at 03:53 PM
Berg, I am not a bot, I even have my IP address
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User September 23, 2024 at 06:01 PM
The RAM speed listed here is wrong. 7500MHz hasn't been invented yet. πŸ’€
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Serhii September 25, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Compare with Snapdragon X Elite ;)
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... September 26, 2024 at 07:21 AM
Serhii, Is there 7500MHz Ram? Or did you mean 7500 MT/second?
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fuuk1 September 26, 2024 at 12:26 PM
You're right. MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus supports LPDDR5T 9600 MT/s or 4800 MHz memory. This info is wrong. Needs to be updated.
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Adarsh September 27, 2024 at 04:44 PM
It's the true one it's same for m4 ipad pro
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Wiwnwjk October 6, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Nope bro phone's rams are generally more over clocked than PC one . There are some LPDD5 7200 MHz ram available in the market.
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Dan8 October 28, 2024 at 12:10 PM
fuuk1, Does no one really suspect the ridiculous number of upvotes on this?
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fuuk1 October 29, 2024 at 03:32 PM
Dan8, I don't know what happened either.
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fuuk1 October 29, 2024 at 03:36 PM
Wiwnwjk, MHz and MT/s are not the same thing. 1 MHz = 2 MT/s. You do the math. MT/s and MB/s are the same though, they're interchangeable.
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Khalid October 29, 2024 at 06:14 PM
No, it's true 7500MHz.
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Someone out there January 18, 2025 at 09:05 AM
Dan8, Maybe this site have been hacked 😢
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Apple Servant September 11, 2024 at 12:27 PM
This score are very wrong. Geekbench states single core score 3400 and multicore score 8300-8400. Sadly it already lost to snapdragon 8 gen 4. Now we isheep would have to deal with the fact the android users would brag about the new cpu and GPU performance while running rdr2 and cyberpunk in their emulators. I can't believe we lost this year boyz.
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lol September 22, 2024 at 12:51 PM
"Sadly it already lost" "we isheep" πŸ’€
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akp831 October 1, 2024 at 11:23 AM
lol, iPhone? more like "iSellKidneys"
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JamesSteal October 29, 2024 at 07:54 AM
Watching an Apple zombie try to install an emulator would be as funny as watching them trying to remove and install a tire.
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akp831 October 29, 2024 at 12:16 PM
JamesSteal, if emulation is your thing, use Android. android has been in the emulation game for years
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Dr mujeeb hamid September 10, 2024 at 07:45 AM
Big cores of both a18 pro & m4 are made with same instruction set & on same nodes. As, geekbench score of big core of m4 is 3767 @ 4.4 ghz, which is 3767/4.4= 856/ghz. So, geekbench score of big core of A18 pro will be 856Γ—3.89= 3329. Though, Refrigerator score might reach 3450. To clear it further, eg, M2 & a16 were made with same instruction set & on same node: Geekbench score of big core of M2 @ 3.49 ghz: 2650 i.e, 2650/3.49= 759/ghz. That is why geekbench score of big core of a16 @ 3.46 ghz=3.46Γ—759= 2627. Again refrigerator scores will be bit higher
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Jaja October 8, 2024 at 07:14 AM
A15 and M2, not A16.
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Tech September 9, 2024 at 07:19 PM
There is no 8k but a 4k 120 fps which is better than giving 8k 24 fps.
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Randy chan September 1, 2024 at 08:19 PM
Apple's upcoming A18 pro will continue as supreme as performance benchmark champion as it will edge out Qualcomm's snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Media Tek's dimensity 9400. Also with Apple being a in-house manufacturer making both their hardware A18 pro and software iOS OS ensures the maximum hardware-software optimization and efficiency which naturally is better than Android based phones powered by Qualcomm or Media Tek since neither company produces the Android OS.
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Masoud Fasihi September 7, 2024 at 07:24 PM
Sd 8 gen 4 will have 2 cores at 4.03ghz a 18 pro is at 3.9ghz, sd 8 gen 4 it will have 6 2.4 ghz while a18 pro wil have 4 2.2ghz cpus. Both with 3nm lithography. Go figure which will be faster
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Brian September 10, 2024 at 09:40 AM
Masoud Fasihi, People buy smartphones based on speeds, not specs.
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user September 22, 2024 at 02:33 AM
Masoud Fasihi, Dude if you think you can just add ghz together to calculate performance you shouldn't be commenting on any tech websites
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The NightShot September 23, 2024 at 09:56 AM
8 Gen 4 literally annihilated A18 Pro in about any benchmark. Are you in dreamland?
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akp831 September 27, 2024 at 07:41 PM
The NightShot, and the Dimensity 9400
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Titanium September 29, 2024 at 05:58 PM
akp831, It all ready did 3million first ever
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App September 1, 2024 at 12:10 PM
What about non profit models
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Carlos September 1, 2024 at 03:47 AM
Basically now Apple is making faster cpu than the one I have in my pc? Wow that is insane
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HelioG420 August 3, 2024 at 08:29 AM
Why won't apple make an octa core chip already is my real question... Like this is real good yes but can you imagine a OctaCore Chip with Apple's efficiency technology? That'd do wonders...
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Joe August 30, 2024 at 07:43 AM
There is no point in adding more cores. Would hurt battery life and generate more heat, which is bad enough in the latest models. Plus, with 6 cores it is already the fastest phone CPU.
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Daniyal September 9, 2024 at 07:28 PM
Joe, Wrong, wrong, wrong. A 2+6 layout would be more powerful and efficient than this because the e cores would be able to handle more tasks and reduce the need for p cores under normal use case increasing battery life and when performance is needed, all 8 cores can provide a big jump.
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The NightShot September 23, 2024 at 09:56 AM
Joe, 8 Gen 4 outperforms A18 Pro both in CPU and GPU, just like 8 Gen 3 outperformed A17 Pro. Apple has been defeated for two years straight. Wake up.
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Brian September 26, 2024 at 06:37 PM
The NightShot, Apple ex engineer best Apple,
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someone October 1, 2024 at 08:31 PM
The NightShot, no it did not get beaten in last two years it was the king is the king and will be the king
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Someone out there January 18, 2025 at 09:07 AM
someone, Can't accept reality.... Ouch πŸ€•
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OPlQ June 6, 2024 at 08:45 AM
How is possible that they have so much better Single Core performance than Qualcommm and Mediatek i really can't comperhend .
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Alex June 12, 2024 at 10:41 PM
They have better optimization
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RCRT August 20, 2024 at 04:07 PM
Alex, Higher clock speed and more efficient process node. We should see what SD 8 gen 4 and D9400 brings to the table
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Violet Berry October 5, 2024 at 01:18 AM
Simple, Apple designed their Performance Cores to be bigger and better than what Arm provides to Mediate and Qualcomm. That's why there's only two of them in smartphones.
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Phenro April 25, 2024 at 07:02 AM
Keep in mind, that usually apple chipsets are kept secret, and they perform differently than leaks. As for A18, i am certain, that if Apple wants to beat Android, it needs to improve its gpu, which im certain will be the biggest improvement in A18. Other than that, from the leaks, I am a bit skeptical of the configuration and the overall performance. But needless to say, we can expect 3200+ singlecore and 8500+ multicore score from apple, based on their annual performance jumps.
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Daniyal September 9, 2024 at 07:32 PM
I'd like to add to that, an improved cooling system, which is basically what holds back apple silicon, be it in iphones or ipads. Plus, the gpu improvements need to be massive because the 8 gen 4 is expected to get a MASSIVE gpu uplift as qualcomm is expected to use a new gpu design. For the cpu, single core would be on par with a17 pro while multi core will trade blows with apple M3!!
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Firdavs April 24, 2024 at 05:20 PM
The iPhone 16 Pro Max might feature 8K resolution.
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Leek April 28, 2024 at 01:57 AM
Any news on whether they'll go above the 60hz displays?
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Smwz May 16, 2024 at 08:00 AM
As an Apple fan, 8K is just trash if it comes with 24FPS. Keep in mind, Samsung had it in 2020.
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Baldilocks August 6, 2024 at 08:31 PM
Leek, iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max already use 120hz displays.
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