Apple iPhone 14 Pro’s new A16 chip: Here’s how it improves over the iPhone 13 series

A16 Bionic: not your average Apple chip

A report from Macworld suggests that the A16 bionic will be manufactured using TSMC's 5nm process and come with 18 billion to 20 billion transistors (up from 15.8 billion on A15). Separately, a Twitter user has shared the AnTuTu benchmarks, GPU improvement, CPU improvement, camera upgrade, and battery boost of the iPhone 14, but we suggest you take this leak should be taken with a pinch of skepticism.

First test powerful #iphone14pro and #Iphone14ProMax

- 896000 benchmark antutu planned

Gpu + 35 %
CPU + 42 %

Crazy results announced

😱 oh my god

Camera 📷 update amazing 🤩

Battery + 2h10 minutes

— iHacktu ileaks  (@ihacktu) June 13, 2022

The publication believes that iPhone 14 will house an LPDDR5 RAM - If true, this will be a significant upgrade over the iPhone 13 series' LPDRR4X RAM. The LPDDR5 RAM will boost the performance of the iPhone 14 series by up to 15 percent. Further, the A16 chip could likely use an ARMv9 (up from ARMv8.5-A on the A15 chip). To recall, the recently launched Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 SoC also uses ARMv9. This means the iPhone 14's A16 chip would not only be Apple's first ARMv9 compatible design but also among the very first ARMv9 compatible chips in the market.

Another possible upgrade that can be expected from the A16 chip is the GPU department. Apple's iPhone 14 Pro A16 chip could get a max of six cores, and when paired with the LPDDR5 RAM, we could witness a GPU performance boost of 25 percent to 30 percent.

For better cellular connectivity, the A16 chip might incorporate the Snapdragon X65 modem and Apple's own 5G modem that the Cupertino giant has been working on for years - it's not ready yet. With this modem, we can expect a better lock on cellular signal and less battery consumption.