Adam Kos Apple has once again hit back at all the critics who like to pick on his steps. At first glance, the A17 Pro chip in the iPad may mini 7th generation look like the one the company used in iPhonech 15 Pro, but that's not the case in the final.
Not every chip is the same, even if Applu has the same name. But we could get used to that, although it is true that it is especially true for M series chips. In their case, it gives Apple the binned ones, i.e. those with the same designation but typically fewer cores, for iPads. It doesn't have to be a problem at all, because they also have a real amount of power in tablets. But now it does the same with the chip for iPhones, which, by the way, is again put into the iPad.
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Chip manufacturing is difficult and errors do occur. Therefore, chips are tested after production to determine whether the chip meets the appropriate specifications. If it does, it goes into the premium product category; if it doesn't, whether in terms of performance, graphics, frequency, power consumption, etc., it is placed in a lower category, which is why the iPad mini It is, after all.
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One less GPU core
A17 Pro chip used Apple last year in the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max line. The base iPhone 15 only had the A16 Bionic chip, which was first included in iPhonech 14 Pro, which also significantly limits this generation of iPhones in the future. But if Apple used in iPhonech 15 non-existent A17 chip, maybe it doesn't need to be in the iPad now mini use an underclocked version of last year's top A17 Pro chip and such confusion would not arise at all. A17 Pro chip in the iPad mini The 2024 has one less GPU core.
- A17 chip in iPhonech 15 Pro: 6-core CPU with 2 performance cores and 4 economy cores, 6-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine
- The A17 chip in the iPad mini 2024: 6-core CPU with 2 performance cores and 4 economy cores, 5-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine
What does it all mean?
It's not hard to guess that it's a new iPad mini reduced in graphics performance, which is also proven by the first benchmarks. They even say that iPhone The 15 Pro not only achieves higher graphics performance, but also has higher CPU performance, although in both cases the CPU is six-core.
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