iPhone 15 brings more than simply a brand new look. It’s carbon neutral that uses 75% recycled aluminum and cobalt that is 100% recycled within the battery. It features USB-C and an upgraded MagSafe connector.
It also uses a custom image signal processor and Neural Engine to deliver a better camera experience. Dynamic Island is an adaptable bar which displays alerts from apps in the form of alerts, and is now available for every model.
Impact
The biggest change from to iPhone 14 is the inclusion of USB-C ports. These new Apple phones do not require Lightning cables. Don’t fret about it, you’ll be able to connect your chargers to battery packs that are portable.
The iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro will include 6 cores of GPU inside the A17 chip. The result will be faster, more sustained gaming performance than ever before.
This processor is new, and there is an estimate of a 10% boost in CPU speed, a 30% reduction in the power usage, as well as enhanced graphics performance. This makes an iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro excellent for those who play a lot or for anyone in need of a powerful mobile device.
Apple’s preferred custom chip is based on TSMC’s advanced 3nm technology. This means the chip is approximately 25% smaller, and has a more compact design. A smaller footprint means it uses less power and is therefore more efficient. This is significant since it makes your iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro battery last longer.
A16 Bionic chip
Each year Apple introduces a new A-series processor that is compatible with the current iPhone models. The chip this year is dubbed A16 Bionic and it’s the fastest processor that has ever been designed specifically for smartphones.
The A16 Bionic is built using TSMC’s 4-nm process design. The transistor count has increased but only a bit in the range of 15 to 16, and the cores remain same (two high-performance, four power-efficiency).
This year’s chip is able to run more sophisticated algorithms that enable advanced camera capabilities like real-time images stabilization. The A16 Bionic is also able to do more with the least amount of power due to a boost in capacity of memory.
The A16 Bionic’s performance CPU cores are able to reach 3.5GHz this is faster over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2’s prime Cortex-A53 core. It’s able to perform many more things at the same at the same time. It also has a lower thermal budget that makes it possible to use thinner smartphones and extended battery life. It also has a dedicated ProRes decoder and AV1 codec which can improve streaming video.
Performance and efficacy
The specialized chip that’s in the iPhone 15 is faster than its predecessor. However, it is also less energy-intensive. It could also help solve the issues with heat that many users have had to deal with.
Apple’s newest A17 Pro chip uses a three-nanometer technology to pack more transistors into the same size chip. The efficiency core of the chip is believed to make it faster while consuming less power as compared to its predecessor. Additionally, the 3nm process improves the overall performance.
TSMC is the maker of Apple’s chip, has started production on the A17’s 3nm process. It means the chips will be thinner and stronger, which will allow them to consume about 30 to 35 percent more energy than the 5-nanometer chips. This is a major improvement in the battery capacity of future iPhones. Apple states that A17’s upgrades are a “dramatic leap” over last year’s A16 Bionic chip, but benchmark scores from Geekbench do not confirm that as of yet.
Apple Silicon
When Apple held its big iPhone launch event this week custom-designed Arm-compatible chips received just a bit of a slack. The recent A17 Pro chip in the iPhone 15 is an important one. It’s the first chip that uses the TSMC 3-nanometer process. This implies it uses less power.
The CPU of the chip is 10percent faster than the A16’s, and its GPU is undergoing “the biggest redesign in Apple history.” It supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing that is up to 4 times more efficient than rendering with software. Also, it powers a feature that lets the phone directly record 4K videos onto storage devices, as well as assistance for Academy Color Encoding System used by filmmakers.
All this power could mean greater battery longevity for the iPhone 15. But it’s too early to know if the benefits can be seen in the form of a tangible benefit. The next generation of iPhones should have even better-performing chips that operate more efficiently, use less power, and give higher performance.