{"id":9158,"date":"2020-01-16T19:12:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apfelpatient.de\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:09:24","slug":"analysis-a14-chip-could-keep-up-with-the-macbook-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apfelpatient.de\/en\/rumors\/analyse-a14-chip-koennte-mit-dem-macbook-pro-mithalten","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: A14 chip could keep up with the MacBook Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rumors surrounding the upcoming iPhone 12 series just won't let up. Now there is a new analysis about the A14 chip - it is said to be something special. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you believe all these rumors, the iPhone 12 series will be equipped with many remarkable features - but the highlight is the new design. Never before have there been so many reports about a new iPhone generation so early. The first rumors were documented in the summer of 2019 - that's crazy. Now MacWorld<\/a> Author Jason Cross has published a new analysis of the upcoming A14 chip. In it, Cross states that the new iPhone processor could keep up with a MacBook Pro. The reason for this lies in the 5-nanometer design infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multi-core performance far beyond expectations?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Although the jump from 7nm to 5nm may not seem that big at first glance, it is a truly remarkable and indeed big deal. In his paper he explains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you take TSMC at its word about the improved transistor density of the 5nm process, it's a whopping 15 billion transistors. That's more than all but the largest high-end desktop and server CPUs and GPUs. It's huge. It's so huge that I wouldn't be entirely surprised if Apple shrunk the total chip area a bit to about 85mm square and about 12.5 billion transistors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This would mean that Apple could perform significantly better than currently expected, especially in terms of multi-core performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trendline gives us a score of around 4,500, but I think a combination of architectural changes and clock speed will give us much more. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Geekbench 5 multi-core score rise to 5,000 or more. The fastest Android phones score around 3,000 on this test, and a score of 5,000 would be comparable to 6-core mainstream desktop CPUs or high-end laptop CPUs. That's in the range of the 15-inch MacBook Pro.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

50 percent performance improvement in games<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Cross explains that the combination of more transistors in the GPU and the possible 6 GB RAM offers significantly more performance - games could therefore be offered over 50 percent better graphics performance. But that's not all. The neural engine should also benefit. He writes in his article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the higher transistor budget enabled by the 5nm manufacturing process, I think Apple will add Neural Engine cores this time around and perhaps make other architectural improvements as well. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple claims that machine learning tasks are at least twice as fast as on the A13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If Cross is ultimately right, the new A14 chip will set new standards. The exciting thing is to see what developers will do with it. (Photo by ktsdesign \/ Bigstockphoto)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n