IPHONE PROCESSOR
BY
GOKULASANKAR M
20232360331
INTRODUCTION
• Apple has recently launched new iPhones, including the iPhone 15,
iPhone 15 Plus, and iPhone 15 Pro.
• While the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus use the same processor as last
year (A16 Bionic), the iPhone 15 Pro features a new chip called the
A17 Pro.
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VARIOUS CHIPS:
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A17 PRO CHIPS
• The A17 Pro is the latest processor from Apple, following the naming
convention of previous processors like A16, A15, and A14.
• The A17 Pro is the first chip to be mass-produced on a three-
nanometer process.
• Apple is rumored to have secured a substantial portion of the
manufacturing capacity from TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company) for producing these chips..
• This advancement allows for more transistors (19 BILLION)to be
packed into the chip, resulting in improved performance and
efficiency.
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PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS IN
A17 PRO CHIPS:
1. CPU PERFORMANCE:
• The A17 Pro continues to use a 2+4 configuration with the two high-
performance CPU cores running up to 10% faster with a maximum
clock speed of 3.78GHz.
• The four high-efficiency cores have a clock speed of 2.11GHz, and
Apple says that its E-cores are three times more efficient than the
competition.
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2.GPU PERFORMANCE:
• The A17 processor features a redesigned GPU core, which contributes to the
increase in transistor count.
• Apple has improved the six-core GPU calling it "Pro-Class."
• The GPU runs 20% faster but remains energy-efficient.
• One big change Apple made was to feature "Hardware-accelerated ray tracing"
which is up to four times faster than software-based ray tracing.
• Ray tracing is a technique used in computer graphics to simulate realistic lighting
effects.
• In traditional rasterized graphics, lighting effects are pre-baked and fixed.
• Ray tracing, on the other hand, traces the beams of light in real-time, resulting in
more realistic and dynamic lighting effects.
• With ray tracing, reflections, curves, and other lighting effects are accurately
rendered.
• Ray tracing provides greater fidelity and a more immersive visual experience
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3. Memory
• A17 Pro uses the same LPDDR5 RAM technology as the A16 Bionic.
However, whether the amount of RAM has increased from 6 GB to
8 GB
Memory 3200 MHz
frequency
Bus 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s
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4.Improved ISP (Image Signal Processor)
• Several improvements have been made to the Image Signal
Processor on the A17 Pro. Apple has also improved the HDR
performance with Smart HDR 5.
• The new and improved ISP will result in more vibrant, true-to-life,
and consistent camera results.
• In addition, the A17 Pro also supports Mesh shading for the first
time. On the video front, the A17 Pro supports 4K Dolby Vision
HDR, Apple ProRes, Cinematic Mode, and Action Mode (2.8K) @60
FPS.
• Both the chipsets can capture 48MP Pro RAW images. However,
the A17 Pro can capture 48MP HEIF images too.
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MESH SHADING:
• The last advancement in the Apple family 9 GPUs that is hardware-
accelerated mesh shading.
• Mesh shading is a flexible, GPU-driven geometry processing stage in
the rendering pipeline that replaces the traditional vertex shader
stage with two compute-like shaders.
• Mesh shaders introduce a new, compute-like geometry pipeline, that
enables developers to directly send batches of vertices and primitives
to the rasterizer.
• These batches are often referred to as meshlets and consist of a small
number of vertices and a list of triangles, which reference the vertices
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5.CONNECTIVITY:
• The A17 Pro includes Qualcomm's Snapdragon X70 5G modem
which offers AI capabilities not found on the A16 Bionic's
Snapdragon X65 5G modem.
• these modems have peak download and upload speeds of up to 10
Gbps and 3.5 Gbps, respectively.
• The X70 5G modem also supports all commercial 5G bands from
600MHz low-band spectrum to 41GHz mmWave.
• Coming to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, both A17 Pro and A16 Bionic
support Bluetooth v5.3. However, there is support for Wi-Fi 6E on
the A17 Pro, which is twice as fast.
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• With Apple ditching the Lightning port this year .
• for USB-C, a dedicated USB 3 controller has been added to the A17
Pro chipset and it supports data transfer speeds as fast as 10Gbps.
• This is 20 times faster than what the A16 Bionic supports.
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6.NEURAL ENGINE:
• The A17 Pro's neural engine, which is used for machine learning,
handles features such as autocorrect and on-device voice
recognition.
• While the number of cores in the neural engine remains at 16, the
number of operations it can handle per second has doubled from the
A16 Bionic to 35 trillion operations per second.
• This should improve the speed that it takes for the iPhone to handle
machine learning and AI tasks.
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7.DEDICATED ENGINES:
• Apple A17 Pro also has three dedicated engines for the first time.
• In addition to the ProRes codec and the Pro display engine, Apple
has also included the AV1 decoder, which means we will finally get
better image quality when streaming videos.
• Also on board is an engine for the iPhone's ProMotion and always-
on display.
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BLOCK DIAGRAM OF A17 PRO
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THANK YOU!
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