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September 14th, 2024

iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip

The iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip in benchmarks, showing significant improvements over previous models. Preorders start soon, with deliveries beginning September 20.

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iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip

The iPhone 16 Pro, equipped with Apple's A18 Pro chip, has demonstrated impressive performance in recent Geekbench benchmarks, surpassing the M1 chip in most tests. The A18 Pro achieved a single-core score of 3429 and a multi-core score of 8790, marking a 15-20% improvement over the A17 Pro chip in the iPhone 15 Pro and a 30-35% increase compared to the A16 Bionic chip in the iPhone 15. Notably, the A18 Pro's multi-core performance is approximately 5% faster than the average score of the M1 chip, which has been a significant player in Apple's silicon lineup since its introduction. This advancement highlights the rapid evolution of Apple's chip technology, allowing for desktop-level performance in mobile devices just four years after the M1's debut. Despite these advancements, there are calls for more practical applications of this power, such as enhanced connectivity options for external displays. The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro were unveiled at Apple's recent keynote and are set to be available for preorder, with deliveries starting on September 20.

- The A18 Pro chip in the iPhone 16 Pro outperforms the M1 chip in benchmarks.

- The A18 Pro shows a significant performance increase over previous iPhone chips.

- The benchmarks indicate a potential for desktop-level performance in mobile devices.

- The iPhone 16 series is available for preorder, with shipments beginning on September 20.

- There are suggestions for improved functionality to utilize the chip's capabilities better.

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By @cedws - 5 months
Seems like an obscene amount of computing power for a phone. Who is pushing their phone that hard? Majority of people just want to send/receive texts and scroll through Instagram.
By @janandonly - 5 months
This might seem like obscene fast now, but remember, most people replace their phone only when the battery dies, not when next years model comes out.

In other words, thanks to the “overkill” that Apple is willing to sell now, their user five years down the line will still feel that their old phone is a premium product. And they’ll be happy to buy a replacing iPhone for it when it does die.

By @idle_zealot - 5 months
> It sure is a shame that we can’t do more with this power. I think it’d be really cool to be able to plug in your iPhone to an external USB-C monitor and run Stage Manager with an external mouse and keyboard.

Even if Apple did this (they won't) having to use Stage Manager for multitasking would make it intolerable anyway.

By @everdrive - 5 months
Which is exciting, except for the fact that this much computing power is useless on a phone. You can't even do 'real' multitasking, and your applications are incredibly limited.
By @developerDan - 5 months
All of this computing power and it will still barely be able to load web pages without an ad blocker.
By @superkuh - 5 months
>It sure is a shame that we can’t do more with this power. I think it’d be really cool to be able to plug in your iPhone to an external USB-C monitor and run Stage Manager with an external mouse and keyboard. Maybe one year.

To dissipate heat you need volume/mass to soak it and surface area to dissipate it. Phones will never have the volume/mass or surface area to compete with normal size computers.

By @tedunangst - 5 months
This shouldn't be too surprising, should it? The M1 itself is a somewhat scaled up phone CPU. Four years later the baseline has caught up to scaled up.
By @qaq - 5 months
Well Apple build a super slim notebook with A18 Pro chip that will have insane battery life :)
By @mannyv - 5 months
Faster processing means less time-to-sleep means better battery life.
By @nrjames - 5 months
I'd like to see them sell a dock and turn the phone into a full blown gaming console that you can pick up and take with you, like the Switch.
By @nothercastle - 5 months
Just let people plug their phone into a dock and make it a full desktop. That’s a killer business feature, never own a laptop again.
By @jajko - 5 months
Crazy times... also newest Snapdragon 8 gen 4 is apparently a bit slower in single core but faster in multicore compared to it, so practically no performance gap across the market, then it boils down to various optimizations.
By @mensetmanusman - 5 months
Microsoft should develop a dock that you plug this phone into to activate monitor / keyboard and mouse with the full office suite.

Maybe the dock has a little bit of extra ram to facilitate.

By @eagerpace - 5 months
I just want to have my computer plug into my monitor and transform into a desktop. I’ll pay twice as much to have one device capable of adapting to every form factor.