A16 vs A15 Bionic TESTED: Apple is HIDING something...

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With the new iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, Apple has introduced the A16 Bionic Apple Silicon chip, which is built on a new TSMC 4nm process. Apple didn't reveal too many details about the chip, even comparing it to 2019's A13 Bionic. So today what I want to find out is what kind of A16 Performance we can expect, what the A16 vs A15 looks like, and what this new process means for M2 Pro, M3, or even M4 Apple Silicon!

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[Greenie]

4nm is more branding than anything else. It’s frankly an optimised version of N5P, which was an optimised version of the original 5nm from TSMC. The “real” node changes will come with 3nm which should see a noticeable perf/watt bump across the board

[eggshi]

I think we have reached a point on the iPhone and iPad where we have topped out the performance needed in a chip that the device/software can even take advantage of. Like the A16 in iPhone and M1 in the iPad will be all anyone needs for years, where a new chip won't even make a difference in day-to-day day usage, even in high-performance use cases for those devices for a long time. Thoughts?

[TheRealMattV]

Another reason for focusing their comparisons on the A13 is that there is a larger group of existing customers with 2-3 year old iPhones to tempt with the A16 than with the 1 year old A15, most of whom will probably wait another 12 months before upgrading.

[Mbro-dqdo]

WTF??? How the f--k does Luke only have 432K subscribers?? He's one of the best ive watched out of many. Good stuff Luke

[mclovin]

I think we can safely say, 3nm will be a huge leap forward. In tsmc we trust.

[tazncs]

This video is actually pretty pointless, since it's common knowledge that TSMC's 3nm process is late and that the 4nm A16 is just the backup plan. Still it is impressive to see that the backup chip is still that much faster.

[mova_]

Honestly even an iPhone X is so fast today that you can’t feel a difference as a normal user which 99.9% of us are.

[dennismunsie]

Comparing against a 3 year old device makes sense if you think about who is the biggest group of upgraders - people with 3 year old phones or older.

[cool]

Luke, differences in processors is not simply cpu and gpu, how about the much improved display engine, isp, faster neural engine, more memory bandwidth….. this isn’t a huge update at all but this comparison ignores everything they actually marketed the new chip to do. It wasn’t about making it 25% to satisfy tech YouTube, it was about making a better iPhone processor to enable new functionality. According to Kuo, M3 will be based off of 3nm as will the A17. I’d put my money on that being where the real cpu/ gpu improvements come into play.

[diandrecarty]

Listen they have topped the performance, they just don’t see the pint in making it any faster because it’s already was ahead of it’s time so just make it more efficient simple

[TechieXP]

Gary Explains it just the A15 with some tweaks.

Which means they could have put this chop in every model. But they didn't so they could resell you last years phones that are stuck ok the shelf that they didn't sell.

[zergadis]

Imo phone manufacturers should finally acknowledge, that benchmarks of flagship cpus are not relevant anymore in 2022 - I don't care about the fact, that phone got 5000 pts in Geekbench if it isn't able to maintain stable 120 fps (and sometimes even 60) in most games for more than 10 mins.

[citizentex]

My generation is responsible for YOUR generation’s fixation on specs. My generation was already over five feet tall when person computers were invented. They sucked. Hard drives were measured in megabytes, not gigabytes. Floppy discs and dot matrix printers were your external storage. Big computers used punch cards.

For us, yearly updates didn’t do it. We grabbed whatever was next regardless of brand. Commodore, Apple, TRS (Tandy, radio shack) and IBM. Then came windows and leaps in storage capacity. Every few months a faster processor wasn’t just wanted, it was needed. Processors were measured in kilohertz, not megahertz. Memory was kilobytes and megabytes, not gigabytes a terabytes.

Now, devices are so good I think nanometers do not matter. What’s matters is portability, durability, and what does what you need to do. Moore’s law is a relic of the past, as is the fixation on specs.

YOU live in an exciting and easy time for technology. Don’t let it drain your finances.

[brianrobinson]

It was reported the 4nm node is actually a modified 5nm node. The jump to 3nm should have the generational die shrink benefits that we have seen in previous die shrinks.

[fadelmahade]

The cost of iPhone in Morocco is the price of two iphone 14 pro. Apple open a store over here please

[shdmd]

A lot of ignorant comments here from people who have no clue of how TSMC semi fab works

No

TSMC 4nm is “not the same as 5nm”

[KaPonoo]

The more iPhone 14 Pro content this man creates and uploads, the more I realize how smart it was to keep my 13 Pro and skip this year. Thank You 🙏 Sir

[ross]

Where’s the 14% improvement coming from on single core performance? Based on those numbers, that’s only an 8% improvement.

[jonathanratliff]

Great breakdown Luke! However won’t the 3nm out next gen have cooler operation and maybe better battery life??

[davout]

4nm is 3rd generation 5nm. I think they used 4nm as a marketing trick to counter Samsung who also claimed 4nm. Well Samsung's 4nm cannot perform as good as even TSMC's 7nm processes but I guess marketing is more important than truth nowadays