iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max about 20% faster than iPhone 11 Pro

Of course it’s faster. Apple never lies about benchmarks, and typically uses conservative estimates so people can’t claim they were lying.

So sad for the haters who were drooling at the early score of 3100 for multi. They were so happy at the prospect the A14 was somehow slower than the A13 only to have those hopes shattered. 

It looks like about half of that improvement is due to a higher clock speed and about half due to higher IPC. 

That's a nice, but not huge, improvement. Seems like where they really spent their transistor budget was in the Neural Engine. 

blastdoor said:

It looks like about half of that improvement is due to a higher clock speed and about half due to higher IPC. 

That's a nice, but not huge, improvement. Seems like where they really spent their transistor budget was in the Neural Engine. 

Have to wait for the X-rays. It looks like Metal improved by about 20% to 70%. Note sure if some of the Metal subtasks are being executed by the NPU or the MLU, but it looks like a lot of transistors were devoted to low precision SIMD performance everywhere: CPU, GPU and NPU. Then, the SLC or L3 size will be interesting to see. The A13 had 16 MB. The A14 could be 24 MB? No change?

The Mac silicon is going to be really interesting to see as a lot of things have to be added. They may have SVE/SVE2 units. Still think there is a chance of that. The memory architecture or memory performance will have to be improved by 2x to 4x, possibly 8x, depending on which Mac. The GPU resources would have to be increased 2x, 4x, 8x as well.

blastdoor said:

It looks like about half of that improvement is due to a higher clock speed and about half due to higher IPC. 

That's a nice, but not huge, improvement. Seems like where they really spent their transistor budget was in the Neural Engine. 

Something like that. The move from N7P (A13) to N5 (A14) brings an approximate 7.5% performance increase with the same power consumption (according to TSMC).

We don't know the exact consumption and sustained performance just yet, but I'd expect it to be around the same as the A13 given little to no change in battery life of the new iPhones.

tht said:

blastdoor said:

It looks like about half of that improvement is due to a higher clock speed and about half due to higher IPC. 

That's a nice, but not huge, improvement. Seems like where they really spent their transistor budget was in the Neural Engine. 

Have to wait for the X-rays. It looks like Metal improved by about 20% to 70%. Note sure if some of the Metal subtasks are being executed by the NPU or the MLU, but it looks like a lot of transistors were devoted to low precision SIMD performance everywhere: CPU, GPU and NPU. Then, the SLC or L3 size will be interesting to see. The A13 had 16 MB. The A14 could be 24 MB? No change?

The Mac silicon is going to be really interesting to see as a lot of things have to be added. They may have SVE/SVE2 units. Still think there is a chance of that. The memory architecture or memory performance will have to be improved by 2x to 4x, possibly 8x, depending on which Mac. The GPU resources would have to be increased 2x, 4x, 8x as well.

Arm has still been pretty quiet on v9, so I'm not sure if we'll see things like SVE2 off the line.