Apple released the iPhone 13 series and iPad mini 6 in the early morning of September 15, both of which are equipped with the latest A15 chip. On September 16, both iPhone 13/13 Pro/13 Pro Max and iPad mini 6 appeared in the GeekBench database. The frequency of A15 and the memory specification of the new machine were all exposed.
In the press conference, Apple did not compare its performance with the old processor as usual, and everyone was also very interested in the memory capacity of the iPhone 13/13 mini. On September 15, it was even rumored that the memory of this generation had increased by 2GB, but it was mercilessly hit by the data released on September 16.
The memory capacity of the iPhone 13 series is the same as that of the previous generation, Small iPhone 13 mini/13 is 4GB of memory, large iPhone 13 Pro/13 Pro Max is 6GB of memory . The dignity of the iPhone 12 Pro is barely preserved.
In the GeekBench database, the codes of iPhone 13/13 Pro/13 Pro Max and iPad mini 6 are iPhone 14, 5/14, 2/14, 3 and iPad 14, 2, respectively. The specific screenshots are placed at the end of the document.
There are three versions of A15, including CPU blood salvage version (iPad mini 6) and GPU blood salvage version (iPhone 13/13 mini). The full blood version is only iPhone 13 Pro/13 Pro Max.
In GeekBench, A15 CPU single core increases by 8% and multi-core increases by about 11% ：
A15 (iPhone 13 Pro Max) maximum frequency 3.23GHz, single core 1728, multi-core 4695
The maximum frequency of the CPU blood salvage version of A15 (iPad mini 6) is 2.93GHz, single core 1596, multi-core 4558
A14 (iPhone 12 Pro Max) maximum frequency 2.99GHz, single core 1602, multi-core 4288
A14 (iPad Air 4) maximum frequency 2.99GHz, single core 1598, multi-core 4264
The performance improvement of A15 basically depends on the frequency improvement. Compared with A14, when the frequency is increased by 8.03%, the single core performance is really only improved by 8.3%... The multi-core performance improvement is slightly larger, which may be due to the stronger small core performance.
It seems that Qiang Ru Apple has also encountered a bottleneck. Although it may have deliberately squeezed toothpaste, Apple has left Android a few years ago, and it can squeeze toothpaste at that time. In fact, Apple has been growing stronger for several years, but its heat dissipation has been unable to catch up. So we think the main reason is the bottleneck, or Apple thinks it is enough. However, this year's release of GPU castration core and CPU frequency difference is a sign of bottleneck in yield rate of manufacturing process.
Finally, summarize:
IPhone 13 Pro/13 Pro Max exclusive full blood A15, 3.23G large core+5 core GPU+6G memory
IPhone 13 is 3.23G full blood CPU+4 core GPU+4G memory
IPad mini 6 is 2.93G residual blood CPU+5 core GPU+4G memory
But finally, Apple's toothpaste is squeezed The GPU has been launched, and this generation has indeed increased by 50%. GeekBench's graphic score reached 14216, compared with 9500 in the previous generation. Most of the 3.2 billion new transistors (up 27%) may have been fed to the GPU.
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