Following the announcement of the iPhone 13 on Tuesday, Apple mentioned that the Pro models have a more powerful GPU than normal models, although they share the same CPU as the A15 Bionic chip. Now, a Geekbench result shows that the iPhone 13 Pro offers up to 55% better graphics performance compared to last year’s iPhone 12 Pro.
As found by MacRumors, someone with access to an iPhone 13 Pro drive performed a Geekbench test, which is a benchmark tool for comparing the performance of smartphones and other devices. The “iPhone14.2” (which is the internal identifier of the iPhone 13 Pro) scored 14216 on metal tests, specific for measuring graphics performance.
In comparison, the GPU of the iPhone 12 Pro gets about 9123 in the same metal tests. In other words, the GPU included in the Aion Bionic chip of the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max is approximately 55% more powerful than the GPU of the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Unfortunately, so far no benchmark tests have been done with normal iPhone 13 models, so we don’t know how it compares to last year’s iPhones A14 Bionic chip even compared to the improved GPU of the iPhone 13 Pro.
As previously reported, the GPU of the A15 Bionic chip of the iPhone 13 mini and the iPhone 13 has four cores. As for the A15 Bionic chip of the iPhone 13 Pro and the iPhone 13 Pro Max, the GPU has an additional core for a total of five cores. It is worth noting that the A14 Bionic GPU included in the iPhone 12 line also includes four cores instead of five.
The added performance added to this year’s iPhone Pro models is likely to be related to support for the ProRes video codec, which requires a lot of GPU.
The iPhone 13 will be available for booking this Friday with prices starting at $ 699 for the iPhone 13 mini.
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