Apple unveils the A14 Bionic, the world's first 5 nm chipset with 11.8 billion transistors and sizeable performance gains over the A13 Bionic

[Redaktion]

The A14 Bionic is here, and it is the world's first 5 nm chipset. The new SoC, which debuts in the fourth-generation iPad Air, boasts 11.8 billion transistors, a 16-core Neural Engine, along with new CPU and GPU cores. The A14 Bionic should offer upwards of 40% better CPU and 30% better GPU performance than the A13 Bionic, too.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-unveils-the-A14-Bionic-the-world-s-first-5-nm-chipset-with-11-8-billion-transistors-and-sizeable-performance-gains-over-the-A13-Bionic.494302.0.html

[www.teknofilo.com]

Performance gains in CPU and GPU are compared to previous model of iPad Air, which had an A12 Bionic. Just check the replay of the event.

[Samunosuke]

Does NBC have editors who verify articles before they are published? A14 was compared to the A12 as the performance gains compared to the A13 will be minimal at best.

[DavidC1]

I respect the quality of their reviews, but the press releases for them are little more than clickbait.

I speculate maybe they need a lot of resources to keep up their detailed review so they need all the attention they can get.

[druiser]

It would have been great to have hisilicon non blocked to have more choice and rivalry. They were the first to introduce the NPU in their kirin

[Coco]

Math isn't your strongest ability.
11.8 billion is not a 70% increase over 10 billion. It is an 11.8% increase.

[AppleTraveller]

18% increase  ;)

[Flomotion]

Reading isn't your strongest ability either. The predecessor of the A14 is the A13. The article only mentions the A12X, the last flagship processor for its tablets. The A13 has 8,5 million transistors, which is equivalent to 72% of the total amount of transistors the A14 has (8.5/11.8). That's probably where the error from the article came from. The A14 has 39% more transistors than the A13 (11.8/8.5).

[Flomotion]

The A12X is also more powerful than the A13 FYI.

[Joe Blowe]

@Coco

math isn't your strength either hahaha