Compared to Geekbench scores for the A16 Bionic of 2531 (single-core) and 6460 (multi-core), the A17 Bionic scored 29% higher than its predecessor in the single-core test and 19% higher in the multi-core test. The A17 Bionic’s maximum clock speed according to the X post was 3.7GHz which matches a previously rumored leak about the A17 Bionic’s specs.
The A17 Bionic also generated a Compute Benchmark Score of 30669 which is higher than the 23000 tallied by the iPhone 14 Pro running the A16 Bionic. This test measures the GPU performance by simulating how the GPU does with typical tasks such as image processing, computer vision, and machine learning. The higher score seems out of line with the addition of just one additional GPU core on the A17 Bionic, but the latter does have an advantage over the A16 Bionic thanks to the new 3nm process node.
The 4nm A16 Bionic carries 16 billion transistors and the smaller feature size inherent with the lower process node used to build the A17 Bionic means we should see smaller transistors used with the new chipset. That means that more of them will fit inside the chip making it more powerful and energy efficient.
