BorisDGFrom leaked tests its only ~6% more powerful than A14. No wonder they just compared it with the competition and not their own silicon like in the past.

FerdI didn’t check on the performance difference yet , but if that’s true , it’s disappointing

Here, they’re claiming that the new A15 will be +50% better than the next-best competitor. The next-best competitor is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 – if we look up our benchmark result set, we can see that the A14 is +41% more performant than the Snapdragon 888 in SPECint2017 – for the A15 to grow that gap to 50% it really would only need to be roughly 6% faster than the A14, which is indeed not a very large upgrade. Apple also didn’t comment on any new ISA features such as Armv9/SVE2, so it seems that the CPU doesn’t feature it?

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For the lower performance 4-core GPU model, Apple again was weird with their performance predictions as they focused on the competition, and not the generational gains. The improvements here over the currently best performing competitor is said to be +30%. Taking GFXBench Aztec as a baseline, we see the A14 was around +18% faster than the Snapdragon 888. The slower A15 would need to be +10% faster than the A14 to get to that margin.

The faster 5-core A15 is advertised as being +50% faster than the competition, this would actually be a more sizeable +28% performance improvement over the A14 and would be more in line with Apple’s generational gains over the last few years.

as 50 percent faster than the nearest competitor, which doesn't really say much about the actual performance.

Vya DomusI kept pointing out over the years that Appel's technology is not magic and they will eventually rear their head into the same limitations everyone else had already reached. Well, for the last three generations there have been no notable improvements, that time has come.

BorisDGnanoreview.net/en/soc-compare/apple-a15-bionic-vs-apple-a14-bionic

Absolute joke. :D

ManofGodOh good, that way Apple can spy on it's users that much faster. :D:banghead:

Darmok N JaladHow did they bench the A15? You can’t even start ordering the iPhones until Friday.

Prima.VeraShouldn't this be iPhone 12S ?? Just wondering...

Darmok N JaladHow did they bench the A15? You can’t even start ordering the iPhones until Friday.

BorisDGHow you are getting benchmarks of GPUs or CPUs before official release?:wtf:

Darmok N JaladMaybe they were trying to boast that they are 1 and 2 in performance, but it certainly didn’t seem all that clear.

Vya DomusAbsolutely not, the A15 is simply not that much faster than A14, that's why they avoided comparing it directly. AnandTech is most likely right about the numbers, single digit improvements in CPU and maybe 25% extra performance for the 5 core GPU.

The A14 already had a decent amount of throttling with 4 cores, since this is still on 5nm there is simply no thermal and power headroom left for significant improvements.

Darmok N JaladYeah, I had a 14 mini, and performance was great, but the thing would get really hot sometimes.

BorisDGFrom leaked tests its only ~6% more powerful than A14. No wonder they just compared it with the competition and not their own silicon like in the past.

Darmok N JaladThat could be true, but if you’re already 50% faster than your closest competitor, why would you push your performance any harder than you need to in order to get the best chip yields? They’ll sell a ton of iPhones, and they have a luxury of not needing to advance performance substantially each generation, so I bet their design target allows them to harvest as many SOCs as they can while still providing more generational performance. I owned a 12 Mini, and I never found it lacking in performance, and that’s basically been true of the last few Apple-powered devices I used.

That said, they do need to open up more RAM to apps on iPadOS, at least for Pro models that have all that RAM. I have work software that crashes because it hits the memory limit (it uses GIS layers), so it’s a “Pro” app and needs those “Pro“ resources. Apple really needs to catch up there. If we don’t see much improvement over whatever replaces M1, then yes, we’re definitely seeing them run out of ideas, but I think they still have some easy places to gain more ground. M1 was likely a fairly conservative design considering how many devices they‘ve stuck it in. It’s often employed in fanless chassis, and it performs about the same as if it had active cooling. I’m curious how much more clockspeed headroom they have in their designs, as right now there are no M1 products that appear to consume more than 25W peak. Could even the current design be capable of much higher clocks at 65W?

timta2If you're not into child porn, there's really not much to worry about. Our government is still spying on everything you do anyway.