The new Apple A16 chipset is only available for the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max; the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus still use the A15 from the previous year. How much do they lose out on? We can't completely respond to that question now because the phones (with the exception of the Plus) will launch on September 16. However, a Geekbench score gives us a sneak peek at the solution.
The "iPhone15,3," also known as the iPhone 14 Pro Max, scored 1,879 on a single core and 4,664 on multiple cores. Typically, the iPhone 13 Pro Max receives 1,725 and 4,848.
That is a single-core increase of 9%, whereas the multi-core test actually saw a slight decline. And this is despite the performance cores' max clock speed increasing from 3.23GHz to 3.46GHz.
Of course, since we're just examining one outcome from the Apple A16 chip, it's too soon to draw any conclusions. The new processor doesn't sound that spectacular, though, if this outcome is any indication.
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Having said that, the truth might not be too far off. Apple displayed this graph during the presentation, comparing the new A16 to the A13 chipset from 2019, noting a 33.3% increase in CPU performance. That’s over the course of three years, so that 9% compared to last year look reasonable.
