Apple today unveiled the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro, and while the company markets the devices with the same processor, they have some slight differences in performance. In fact, the GPU of the A15 chip found in iPhone 13 Pro models is more powerful than in normal iPhone 13 models.
The A15 Bionic chip powers the entire line of the iPhone 13, ranging from the iPhone 13 mini to the iPhone 13 Pro Max. Apple says the new CPU has two high-performance cores and four cores for energy efficiency. Although they are probably the same on both models, the graphics performance is different between the normal model and the Pro.
The GPU of the iPhone 13 mini’s A15 Bionic chip and iPhone 13 includes four cores, and Apple says it offers 30% better graphics performance compared to the “competition”. As for the A15 Bionic chip of the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, the GPU has an additional core for a total of five cores that offer up to 50% better performance compared to the competition.
As mine points out 9to5Mac Jeff Benjamim College, the most powerful GPU for Pro models may be related to the addition of ProRes codec support. Apple said at the event that the A15 Bionic includes new video encoders and video decoders capable of recording and editing video on ProRes, which not only take up a lot of internal storage space (which led to the new model of 1 TB), but they also require a lot of GPU.
Here’s what Apple has to say about the A15 Bionic chip for the iPhone 13 Pro:
With 5-nanometer technology, A15 Bionic, the fastest chip in a smartphone, introduces a new 5-core GPU in the Pro range that provides the fastest graphics performance of any smartphone, up to a 50 percent faster than the competition leader, ideal for video applications, high-performance games and new camera features.
This could also be related to something known as “bin binning,” as my other already explained 9to5Mac company Ben Lovejoy:
No chip-making process is perfect, and as the process slows down, the challenges of producing a perfect chip increase. When working at nanometer precision levels, even the cleanest clean rooms still contain some microscopic elements of contamination. So what companies usually do is point to a specific specification, then separate those chips that fall short and sell them as a version of lower specifications. The tokens are placed in another different sort bin.
Of course, we’ll have to wait for the first shipments of the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro to know the details of the difference in performance between the two models. The iPhone 13 will be available for booking this Friday with prices starting at $ 699 for the iPhone 13 mini.
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