The A17 Pro is built on the most advanced 3nm architecture, so Apple could take advantage of that node's energy efficiency to give the SoC a significant lead in both single-core and multi-core workloads, but according to the latest leaks, that's not the case. In fact, compared with the A16 Bionic, the biggest gap appears in the single-core performance, so it is not necessarily a breakthrough manufacturing process that can help the chip achieve amazing performance.

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In the multi-core test results, the gap between A17Pro and A16Bionic is only single digits.

Some specs for the A17 Pro on Geekbench6 show that the device, which is identified as iPhone 16,1, comes with 8GB of RAM, something we have pointed out in earlier reports. In addition, the leaked information also shows that the main frequency of the two performance cores is 3.78GHz, but there is no information related to the efficiency core. The performance core frequency of A16Bionic is 3.46GHz. Although the frequency is not much different, different manufacturing processes should bring about performance differences.

Unfortunately, the single-core and multi-core scores of the A17Pro are only 2914 and 7199 points respectively, which is disappointing because Apple could have taken advantage of the increased efficiency of the 3nm node to obtain higher SoC performance at slightly higher power consumption. A16Bionic scored 2644 points and 7073 points respectively in the same benchmark test. In contrast, A17Pro's single-core score is only 10% higher than the previous generation product, and the multi-core score is only a single-digit difference.

These data make people think that Apple may have deliberately reduced some of the performance of the new chip to ensure the battery life of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. Although this cannot be confirmed, in the video playback, streaming and audio playback tests, the battery life of iPhone 15 Pro Max is the same as that of iPhone 14 Pro Max. These results in turn suggest that battery capacity may have been reduced this year, so Apple may have downclocked the A17 Pro to get more battery life from its latest flagship.

While we wait for more evidence, you can check out the Geekbench6 results by clicking on the source link below:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2592831