Apple A17 Pro
Benchmarks & Specs

The Apple A17 Pro is the processor of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max and was introduced in September 2023. It was the first smartphone chip manufactured by TSMC in a 3 nm process (N3B). Apple later also used it in the seventh-generation iPad mini.

The CPU has 6 cores: 2 performance cores at up to 3.78 GHz and 4 efficiency cores at around 2.1 GHz. In Geekbench 6, the A17 Pro scores around 2,950 points single-core and about 7,240 points multi-core, in AnTuTu 10 around 1.49 million points, and in MonkeyBench around 3,300 multi-core points. Its single-core performance is therefore still on the level of many notebook processors.

The 6-core graphics unit reaches around 2.1 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and brought hardware ray tracing to the iPhone for the first time. Together with Apple's MetalFX upscaling, even console ports such as Resident Evil Village or Assassin's Creed Mirage run directly on the smartphone. In long gaming sessions, however, heat build-up in the slim body limits sustained performance.

For AI, the A17 Pro has a 16-core Neural Engine with around 35 TOPS, twice as fast as in its predecessor, the A16. This makes the iPhone 15 Pro one of the first devices to support Apple Intelligence, i.e. writing tools, summaries and image editing directly on the device. The 8 GB of memory is also important for this.

The LPDDR5 memory is connected to the CPU, GPU and Neural Engine as unified memory. Also new was a USB controller for USB 3 with up to 10 Gbit/s, which allows ProRes videos to be transferred quickly.

All in all, the Apple A17 Pro is still a very fast smartphone chip today, with good gaming performance and support for Apple Intelligence. Its successor, the A18 Pro, has been improved further, especially in graphics and efficiency.

• 3nm Manufacturing Process
• Integrated Graphics Unit (6 GPU Cores)
• Generous Cache Configuration
• High Overall Performance