Which one is stronger, A17Pro or M2?
As the competition in the smartphone market becomes increasingly fierce, consumers are increasingly demanding mobile phone performance and functionality.In today's Internet era, mobile phones are not only a communication tool, but also an indispensable part of people's lives.Recently, Apple released a new iPhone15 series, among which the iPhone15Pro series is equipped with a new A17Pro chip. So which one is stronger, A17Pro or M2?
Which one is stronger, A17Pro or M2?What is the difference between A17Pro and M2?
M2 is much more powerful, and the performance of A17 Pro is just barely catching up with the M1 chip
The Apple A17 Pro chip uses TSMC's 3nm process technology, which is also the most advanced process. It is currently monopolized by Apple. The number of transistors is as high as 19 billion. It uses a 6-core CPU, including 2*3.78Ghz high-performance core + 4*2.02 low-powerIt consumes cores, and also has an architectural design of 6-core GPU + 16-core NPU, which supports AV1 decoding and USB3, and the transmission speed can reach 10Gbps.The CPU includes 2 performance cores and 4 energy efficiency cores, while the GPU has one more GPU core than the A16, with peak performance increased by 20%, ray tracing performance up to 4 times, and finally NPU performance increased by 2 times.
Apple M2 uses second-generation 5nm technology and has a total of 20 billion integrated transistors, compared to 16 billion for Apple M1.At the same time, the memory bandwidth of M2 has also been upgraded from 68.25GB/s of M1 to 100GB/s.It adopts an 8-core processor design, including 4 performance cores and 4 energy efficiency cores, and can integrate up to 10-core graphics processors. Compared with the previous generation, M2 CPU performance is improved by 18%, graphics processor performance is improved by 35%, and the neural network engine is fasterIt's 40% faster.
To sum up, as Apple’s second chip for tablets, the overall performance of M2 is very good, almost as good as many desktop processors.The A17 Pro is just a mobile processor. Although its performance is among the best among mobile chips, it is still far from being a desktop processor.
