Blogger Is the A17 Pro completely out of stock? Has Qualcomm poached all the chip talents?

Is the A17 Pro completely out of stock? Has Qualcomm hired all the chip talents?

【PhoneAuto News】Recently, Apple held a new product launch event and introduced the iPhone 15 series. At this event, Apple’s new generation chip, the A17 Pro, was also officially unveiled. Currently, many media outlets have started evaluating the iPhone 15 series, so how does the A17 Pro perform? On September 20th, PhoneAuto noticed that a digital blogger posted an article stating that according to the data from Little White’s evaluation, the performance of the A17 Pro is not outstanding and can be considered a disappointment. It seems that Apple’s chip department has not been able to fully unleash its potential. The CPU and GPU performance growth is not significant, while power consumption has increased significantly. The peak GPU performance is even inferior to Snapdragon 8 Gen2.

The blogger also claimed that although the ray tracing performance of the A17 Pro has been hyped up, it is actually comparable to the MediaTek Dimensity 9200+. This raises doubts as to whether Apple’s chip department has been completely poached by Qualcomm.

According to Apple’s official introduction, compared to the previous A16, the A17 Pro has upgraded its manufacturing process from TSMC’s 4nm to TSMC’s 3nm. The number of transistors has increased from 16 billion to 19 billion. The CPU cores are still divided into 2 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, but there have been microarchitecture improvements.

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Among them, the performance cores of the A17 Pro have improved branch prediction, increased the width of the decoding and execution engines, claiming to have a 10% speed increase. The efficiency cores are claimed to be the most efficient mobile CPU cores, achieving three times the efficiency of competing products. The neural engine still has 16 cores, but the computing power has almost doubled from 17TOPS to 35TOPS.

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