iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max benchmarks have revealed the improvements in GPU performance on both of Apple’s flagship smartphones launched earlier this month. This year, Apple has equipped both Pro models with an A17 Pro chip, while the regular models feature the A16 Bionic chip found on last year’s iPhone 14 Pro. Apple says the 3nm A17 Pro chip features 6 GPU cores that are up to 20 percent faster than its predecessor, while offering improved efficiency.
MySmartPrice has published GFXBench benchmarks for three handsets from the iPhone 15 smartphone series: the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max and the iPhone 15 Plus. Some testing shows the A17 Pro chip is slightly better than Apple’s claims of improved GPU performance made at its ‘Wonderlust’ launch event on September 12.
Compared to the iPhone 15 Plus with its A16 Bionic chip, the iPhone 15 Pro rendered a higher number of frames on the Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen test. According to the report, the iPhone 15 Pro models produced approximately 8 more frames per second than the iPhone 15 Plus during the benchmark test. During the Normal Tier Offscreen test, the Pro model reportedly displayed 10 more frames per second than the iPhone 14 Pro launched last year.
Meanwhile, the Manhattan 3.1 Offscreen test showed that the A17 Pro chip offered an improvement of around 48 fps over the iPhone 15 Plus with the A16 Bionic chip. This represents an increase of almost 31.5 percent over the previous generation chipset, meaning the GPU performance of the new iPhone 15 Pro models could be even higher than Apple claimed during the presentation.
Benchmarks are synthetic tests and only tell half the story about the performance of a smartphone or computer. There are several other factors that affect performance, such as ambient temperature and software optimization.
According to a previous report, the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max come equipped with 8GB of RAM, marking the first time Apple has increased the amount of RAM in its smartphones since the iPhone 13 Pro launched in 2021. typically doesn’t reveal the amount of RAM or battery capacity of its smartphones, but these are usually revealed through benchmarks and teardowns of the handsets a few weeks after the devices make their debut.
