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A chip Apple builds on second-generation 3 nm technology for its 2024 Pro iPhones, with a 6-core CPU and a 6-core GPU.
Apple says A18 Pro has a 6-core CPU with two performance and four efficiency cores, a 6-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. It runs the same workload 15% faster with 20% less power than the previous generation; the GPU is up to 20% faster and hardware-accelerated ray tracing up to 2× faster. Total system memory bandwidth is up 17%.
The chip also enables the Pro models’ USB-C port to run at USB 3 speeds (up to 10 Gb/s) and ProRes video recording. Apple Intelligence features use this chip’s Neural Engine as well.
Phones · 2024
iPhone 16 Pro is the 6.3-inch version of Apple’s 2024 Pro phone. It has the A18 Pro chip, a 120 Hz ProMotion OLED display, 48 MP main and ultra-wide cameras, a 5× tetraprism telephoto, 4K 120 fps Dolby Vision recording and the new Camera Control button. USB-C runs at 10 Gb/s USB 3 speeds and MagSafe reaches 25 W. In independent testing the display was very bright and battery and charging above average; a touch-screen bug at launch was fixed in iOS 18.0.1.