Apple A18 and A18 Pro specs revealed by new rumour
With the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max slated to drop on September 9, new information about their SoCs has emerged online. Previously, it was said that Apple would use an A18 on the regular models and A18 Pro on the rest. The differences between the two might not be very significant, if a rumour from Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital is accurate.
The regular Apple A18 will come with a six-core CPU (2 performance + 4 efficiency) cores, and a five-core GPU. The Apple A18 Pro has the same CPU, but a six-core GPU. It can boost up to 4.05 GHz, putting it well ahead of the A17 Pro's boost clock of 3.8 GHz.
The leaker alleges Apple tried to push the Apple A18 to 4.95 GHz, but had to tone it down due to high power consumption. That seems a bit far fetched as pushing a smartphone SoC to such speeds is next to impossible, even on TSMC's cutting-edge N3E node.
Unlike the past few generations where non-Pro iPhones were straight up relegated to using last year's hardware, the difference will be a lot less this time, likely to facilitate smooth operation of Apple Intelligence features. A corresponding bump in RAM might also be be on the cards as on-device AI processing is notoriously memory hungry.
