- The iPhone chip yield has improved 385x since the launch of 2007, according to Benchmarks
- The A17 and A18 chips in iPhone 16 models continue Apple’s efficient performance trend
- The next -generation iPhone could press the CPU performance beyond the 500X original iPhone processor
New investigation of PC clock He has compared the performance of Apple’s smart phone chips over time, and discovered that the iPhone CPU has improved in 384.9x since the original model was launched in 2007.
The analysis used Geekbench data to track the performance between generations, estimating an average annual improvement rate of around 40%.
According to that trajectory, the next generation iPhone 17, expected later in 2025, could push that figure beyond the 500X mark.
More focused on performance
The original iPhone, which Steve Jobs launched in 2007, was driven by a SAMSung -based SOC -based. That chip had a nominal frequency of 620MHz, but in reality it worked just 412MHz.
For the 3GS iPhone, released two years later, Apple was for a Samsung CPU of Cortex-A8 Samsung (APL0298C05) that marks the beginnings of a chip design more focused on performance.
In 2013, Apple launched the iPhone 5S, which was the first smartphone to send with a 64 -bit processor, Apple A7 (Cyclone). The movement pushed Apple ahead of the rest of the mobile industry at that time.
Apple design philosophy has long focused on balanceing power efficiently. While Android chips manufacturers adopted designs of eight and ten nuclei, Apple has stayed with six -core designs since 2017, which generally have two high -performance nuclei and four efficiency nuclei.
Despite that, Apple is constantly located at the top or near the top in a single and multiple yield.
The iPhone 16 and the iPhone 16 Pro of 2024 continued that approach. The standard models use the A17 bionic chip, built in a 3 Nm process and obtained more than 8100 in PC clockGeekbench Spranas 6. Pro models use the A18 Bionic, which achieved scores greater than 8500 and the central watches that exceed 4GHz.
By way of comparison, the iPhone 13 Pro Max of 2021 obtained around 5700 at the same point of reference. That translates into a 50% improvement for three years.
The performance increases achieved by the various generations of iPhone from 2007 onwards are clearly huge, but there are warnings about the methodology used for the tests. It is important to keep in mind that numbers include estimated conversions for older iPhones that are prior to modern reference points.
