At the launching of theiPhone 13 , Apple declined to make a unmediated comparison between the machine ’s performance and that of the iPhone released the previous twelvemonth , as it ordinarily does . Instead , Apple focused on the competition , say the new A15 Bionic chip was 50 % faster than rivals ’ processors , an averment that has now been put to the trial run byAnandTechin an thoroughgoing and detailed review .
Astonishingly , the numbers advise that Apple was if anything underplay the dominance of its latest splintering .
The main competitor to the A15 Bionic is theQualcomm Snapdragon 888 . base on AnandTech ’s measurements , the former actually offers 62 % faster performance than the latter .
There are some potential explanations for the A15 chip ’s dominance . One is that since the launch of last year ’s A14 the amount of organization cache has been duplicate to 32 MiB . In addition , the amount of L2 cache has been increased from 8 MB to 12 MB , which is the same amount used in the M1 chip found in current Mac computers .
Of naturally , it ’s questionable whether such utmost execution is really useful in a mobile headphone at this point – theiPhone 12is perfectly able of play anything on the App Store without the slight difficulty – but it does extend a expectant wad of future - proofing . It will also give app developers a green light to make their wares more challenging , secure in the knowledge that the ironware is growing ever more open .
The other enthralling affair about the A15 is that Apple does n’t seem to have prioritised carrying out – certainly not at the expense of energy - efficiency , which is also much better than old and rival chipping . AnandTech observes that efficiency gains “ are likely primal to the Modern immensely longer bombardment longevity of the iPhone 13 series phones ” , and to have balanced upgrades in both public presentation and efficiency in the same release is an telling feat .
This article originally appeared onMacworld Sweden . Translation ( usingDeepL ) and extra coverage by David Price .
