Apple A17 Pro unveiled: 3nm, 6-core CPU and GPU w/ Ray Tracing!

The much anticipated Apple iPhone 15 Pro Series was introduced earlier today. Of course that comes with a new chip. Let's take a dive in.

The new bionic chip

Apple A17 Pro chip unveiled!

The new Apple A17 Pro chip is built on 3nm lithography. Which means it is now even more powerful yet takes less energy.

It uses a 6-core CPU with 2x high-performance cores and 4x efficiency cores. Apple claims the CPU is 10 percent faster than the previous A16 chip. While the GPU offers 3x performance/watt versus the competitors. Meanwhile, the GPU also allows mesh shading hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing.

The features

Apple even claims that the Triple-A PC and Console games such as Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4 remake, and Assasin's Creed Mirage are coming to iPhones as the A17 Pro chip is powerful enough to run those games.

Assasin's Creed Mirage on iPhones? That's sick!

Meanwhile, the A17 Pro chip also boasts a 16-core neural engine that can process up to 35 Trillion operations per second. It supports engines for ProRes, AV decode, and the Pro display engine.

The chip also supports USB 3 speeds with up to 10Gbps making it faster than traditional USB-C ports. Apple suggests that users can employ USB 3 via the USB C port to swiftly transfer pro-grade video to a Mac or record directly to external storage. It will also support ProRes 4K60.

The fact that Apple can invite developers such as Capcom or Ubisoft to bring their triple-A games to iPhones shows how promising the A17 Pro chip is.

What do you guys think?

Source: Apple