Leaker claims iPhone 18 Pro chip will have 7 GPU cores and faster RAM
Leaked circuit diagrams suggest the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro's A20 Pro chip may feature seven GPU cores and increased L2 cache for efficiency cores. While these findings are based on indirect inferences from solder diagrams, they point toward potential performance and power efficiency gains.
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A Chinese leaker with some track record has posted images of claimed circuit diagrams of the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models.
These suggest that the new A20 Pro chip may have seven GPU cores – one more than its predecessor – and a faster memory interface …
The images posted by Weibo user Fried White Rice are not of the A20 Pro chip itself, but rather diagrams of where the chip will be attached to the underlying circuit board. From this, they’re making inferences about the power and architecture of the new chip, drawing two main conclusions about likely improvements.
First, the diagrams point to six CPU cores in the same configuration as last year’s model: two high-performance ones and four efficiency cores. However, it appears that the cache memory for the efficiency cores has been increased.
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