Normally Apple’s September event would give us the new iPhone lineup, but 2020 is different than most years, so Apple’s new watches and iPads will have to work for now. However, we still got to see the debut of the Apple A14 Bionic chipset that will power the upcoming iPhone 12 smartphones.
This is the first chipset built globally with the new 5nm process, outperforming the Android competition that still uses 7nm SoCs. It comes with a six-core CPU and a quad-core GPU, but interestingly enough, Apple chose to compare its performance numbers to the A12 rather than last year’s A13, citing a 40% improvement in CPU and a 30% increase. % on the charts.
However, knowing that last year Apple said that the A13 Bionic brought a 20% speed increase across the board over the A12 Bionic, we can estimate that the 2020 chipset has 17% faster CPU and 8% better. GPU than its predecessor.
These are not huge benefits, but once again some of the improved efficiency brought by the new manufacturing process went to lower energy consumption.
While Apple kept up its tradition and didn’t talk about clock speeds, it promises the same 10-hour battery life on the new iPad Air 4 as it did on its predecessor. However, the new tablet has a 28.6 Wh battery compared to last year’s model’s 30.8 Wh pack, suggesting 8% lower power consumption. We’re not sure how much of this is due to the new display and how much to the chipset, but it still bodes well for the battery life of the iPhone 12 lineup.
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