New information about the SoCs of the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max has emerged online. According to previous reports, Apple would use an A18 on the regular models and an A18 Pro on the rest. According to Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital, the differences between the two are not very significant.
There are six cores in the regular Apple A18 (2 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores), and five cores in the GPU. With the Apple A18 Pro, you get the same CPU and a six-core GPU. Boost speeds up to 4.05 GHz put it well ahead of the A17 Pro’s clock speed of 3.8 GHz.
Despite Apple’s efforts to push the Apple A18 to 4.95 GHz, it had to be toned down due to high power consumption. TSMC’s cutting-edge N3E node can’t push a smartphone SoC to such speeds, so it seems farfetched.
Since non-Pro iPhones have been relegated to using last year’s hardware in past generations, the difference will be much smaller this time around, likely facilitating the smooth operation of Apple Intelligence. Since AI processing on-device consumes a lot of RAM, a RAM bump may also be in the cards.
