The non-Pro variant is particularly interesting since the improvements are significant over the non-Pro iPhone 15 models.
It promises a 15% performance uplift over last year’sA17 Prowhile simultaneously reducing power consumption by 20%.
Elsewhere, the A18 Pro’s image signal processor (ISP) gets a huge 2x video encoding uplift.
The wider-than-usual performance gap is partly due to the iPhone 15 modelsskippedthe A17 upgrade.
That means the comparison is against a chip that’s two generations behind.
Under the hood, the A18 rocks the same 6-core CPU blueprint as the Pro variant.
Ray tracing also makes its mainstream iPhone debut, bringing more realistic visuals.
As usual, Apple was light on finer chipset details like CPU/GPU clock speeds and memory configurations.
