A20 Pro
Apple's flagship mobile processor designed for the iPhone 18 Pro series, featuring enhanced GPU compute performance and additional neural cores to support on-device AI inference tasks.
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The source material does not provide the specific CPU/GPU core counts, process node or performance improvement margin of the A20 Pro, so the actual leap of this chip generation cannot be quantified.
Apple makes 'faster' the core description of this A20 Pro chip upgrade.
With the A20 Pro, Apple abandoned the "4 efficiency + 2 performance" CPU core layout it had used for years, switching to 4 efficiency cores plus 2 super cores.
According to Tom's comparison data, the single-core performance of the A20 Pro chip's super core exceeds that of the fastest desktop-class core design.
The A20 Pro chip beat all phone chips in Geekbench single-core tests.
The iPhone Duo is powered by the A20 Pro chip and features the same vapor chamber cooling system as the iPhone 18 Pro.
Apple's M4 chip debuted in the latest iPad Pro.
In the 3DMark Solar Bay ray-tracing stress test, the A20 Pro's lowest loop score is nearly double the S26 Ultra's highest loop score
The A20 Pro chip launched the first 2nm mobile chip several weeks ahead of Qualcomm and MediaTek
This generation of iPhone upgrades from the A19 Pro to the A20 Pro, adopting a 2-nanometer process for the first time, with the main camera upgraded to a variable aperture lens.
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Apple's M4 chip debuted in the latest iPad Pro.
65%UnverifiedThe iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are equipped with the all-new A20 Pro processor.
60%UnverifiedThe source material does not provide the specific CPU/GPU core counts, process node or performance improvement margin of the A20 Pro, so the actual leap of this chip generation cannot be quantified.
50%UnverifiedApple makes 'faster' the core description of this A20 Pro chip upgrade.
50%UnverifiedThe A20 Pro chip beat all phone chips in Geekbench single-core tests.
50%UnverifiedWith the A20 Pro, Apple abandoned the "4 efficiency + 2 performance" CPU core layout it had used for years, switching to 4 efficiency cores plus 2 super cores.
50%UnverifiedAccording to Tom's comparison data, the single-core performance of the A20 Pro chip's super core exceeds that of the fastest desktop-class core design.
50%UnverifiedThe iPhone Duo is powered by the A20 Pro chip and features the same vapor chamber cooling system as the iPhone 18 Pro.
50%UnverifiedIn the 3DMark Solar Bay ray-tracing stress test, the A20 Pro's lowest loop score is nearly double the S26 Ultra's highest loop score
50%UnverifiedThe A20 Pro chip launched the first 2nm mobile chip several weeks ahead of Qualcomm and MediaTek
50%UnverifiedThis generation of iPhone upgrades from the A19 Pro to the A20 Pro, adopting a 2-nanometer process for the first time, with the main camera upgraded to a variable aperture lens.
50%UnverifiedApple moved the DRAM that was previously stacked on the CPU to the side, allowing a vapor chamber three times larger in area to be placed directly on the CPU to improve thermal dissipation.
50%UnverifiedThe A20 Pro chip achieves both stronger performance and noticeably longer battery life within a body of the same size.
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