Although the newly released iPhone 13 series and iPad mini 6 are equipped with the A15 processor, strictly speaking, only the iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max is the full blood version. This is because the iPhone 13 mini/13 uses a 4-core GPU, while the highest CPU frequency of the iPad mini 6 is only 2.93GHz (full blood is 3.23GHz).
Judging from the running scores of Geekbench 5, the residual blood version has the same CPU performance as the A14, and the multi-core has only increased by 9%. The full-blood version has a single-core increase of 9% and a multi-core increase of about 15%.
As for the GPU, the Geekbench Metal API of the model identified as iPhone 14,5 (iPhone 13) has a graphics score of 10608, while the iPhone 14,2 (iPhone 13 Pro) ran out of 14,216. In other words, it seems that there is only one GPU core difference, but the graphics performance of the iPhone 13 has lost 25%.
This means that in some large-scale games, image processing, video editing and other tasks, the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro processors may have a significant speed difference. Of course, the frequency reduction strategy of mobile SoC is usually more aggressive, and it is expected that there will not be much difference between the two in terms of continuous output performance.
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