In the A17 game, the details of how strong the performance of A17 is is a key point that players need to know in the game, but players need to find the right method to find the details of how strong the performance of A17 is. Let us take a look at the details of how strong the performance of A17 is.
The iPhone 15 Pro series brings a new processor, but it is not the legendary A17 Bionic, but called "A17 PRO", achieving another evolution.
Compared with the previous generation A16, the manufacturing process of this A17 PRO processor has been upgraded from TSMC 4nm to TSMC 3nm, and the number of transistors has increased from 16 billion to 19 billion.
The CPU cores are still the same 6 that will remain unchanged for thousands of years. They are still divided into 2 performance cores and 4 energy efficiency cores, but the microarchitecture has been improved.
Among them, the performance core improves branch prediction, increases the width of the decoding and execution engine, and is claimed to increase speed by 10%.
The energy-efficiency core is claimed to be the most energy-efficient mobile CPU core, reaching three times that of competing products (I didn’t specify who).
The Neural Engine still has 16 cores, but its computing power has almost doubled from 17 TOPS to 35 TOPS.
Independent video engine and display controller, natively supports AV1 video decoding for the first time, but does not support encoding.
The newly added USB3 controller finally bids farewell to the ancestral USB 2.0. It supports the USB 3.0 specification for the first time, with a transmission bandwidth of 10Gbps. It is more convenient to match the new USB-C interface, but you need a separate data cable.
The GPU part is the one that has changed the most, and is also the source of the name PRO. Not only has the number of cores increased from 5 to 6, but it has also undergone a new architectural design, with a peak performance increase of 20%, and the introduction of Mesh Shading, especially for the first time. It supports real-time hardware-level ray tracing, catching up with Qualcomm and MediaTek.
Apple claims that the A17 PRO can bring faster light tracing performance than any other smartphone, and compared to the A15 software light tracing, it is also improved by a full 4 times.
It is worth mentioning that the 3DMark light tracing test project has also been launched on iOS this year.
Although Qualcomm and MediaTek have already supported real-time ray tracing on their hardware, their progress in game implementation has been extremely slow. Now with Apple’s leadership, I believe everyone will soon be able to play various ray tracing mobile games.
