The Apple A17 Pro is a

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ARM-based

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(SoC) designed by

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, part of the Apple silicon series, and manufactured by

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. It is used in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models only and is the first widely available SoC to be built on a

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process.

Design

The Apple A17 Pro features an Apple-designed 64-bit ARMv8.6-A six-core

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with two high-performance cores running at 3.78 GHz, and four energy-efficient cores running at 2.11 GHz. Apple claims the new high-performance cores are 10% faster due to its improved branch prediction, and wider decode & execution engines, and the new energy-efficient cores are faster and 3x more efficient than the competition. The amount of RAM has increased from 6 GB to 8 GB. The A17 Pro integrates a new Apple-designed six-core GPU, which Apple claims is 20% faster and their biggest redesign in the history of Apple GPUs, with added hardware accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading support. The 16-core Neural Engine is now capable of 35 trillion operations per second. The A17 Pro also added support for

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decoding and USB 3.2 Gen 2 (est. up to 10 Gb/s). The A17 Pro contains 19 billion

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, a 19% increase from the A16's transistor count of 16 billion, and is fabricated by

on their 3 nm N3 process.

Products that include the Apple A17 Pro

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* iPhone 15 Pro Max

Comparison of A15, A16 and A17

In popular culture

In the 2022 film '' M3GAN'', the titular artificially intelligent humanoid robot character features an A17 Bionic Fusion Chip.

References

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Design

Products that include the Apple A17 Pro

Comparison of A15, A16 and A17

In popular culture

See also

References