- The performance of the iPhone chip has improved 385x since the launch in 2007, according to benchmarks
- The A17 and A18 chips in iPhone 16 models continue the Apple performance trend
- The new generation iPhone could push processor performance after 500x original iPhone processor
A new survey of PC watch Compared the performance of smartphones for Apple over time and found that the iPhone processor has improved 384.9x since the launch of the original model in 2007.
The analysis used geekbench data to follow the performance between generations, estimating an average annual improvement rate of around 40%.
Based on this trajectory, the new generation iPhone 17 pro, later expected in 2025, could push this figure beyond the 500X brand.
More performance focused
The original iPhone, which Steve Jobs launched in 2007, was fueled by an SOM11 SOCSNG SOC. This chip had a nominal frequency of 620 MHz, but it actually worked at only 412 MHz.
For the iPhone 3GS, released two years later, Apple opted for a Samsung Corex-A8 Corex-A8 (APL0298C05) processor marking the beginnings of a chip design more focused on performance.
In 2013, Apple launched the iPhone 5S, which was the first smartphone to ship with a 64 -bit processor, the Apple A7 (Cyclone). This decision pushed Apple before the rest of the mobile industry at the time.
Apple’s design philosophy has been focusing for a long time on power balance with efficiency. While Android Chipmakers has adopted eight and ten core conceptions, Apple has remained with six -core provisions since 2017, with two high -performance cores and four efficiency cores.
Despite this, Apple ranks regularly at the top or near the summit in unique and multi-core performance.
The iPhone 16 and the 2024 iPhone 16 continued this approach. The standard models use the A17 bionic chip, built on a 3nm process and have marked more than 8100 on PC watchGeekbench 6. The pro models use the A18 Bionic, which has reached scores above 8,500 and central clocks exceeding 4 GHz.
By way of comparison, the iPhone 13 Pro Max of 2021 marked around 5700 in the same reference. This results in an improvement of 50% over three years.
The performance increases carried out by the different generations of iPhone from 2007 are clearly enormous, but there are warnings to the methodology used for tests. It is important to note that the numbers include the estimated conversions for older iPhones which are prior to modern references.
