| Apple A17 Pro | |
| Fastest: | 3.78 |
| Fast-Unit: | GHz[1] |
| Size-From: | 3 nm (TSMC N3) |
| Designfirm: | Apple Inc. |
| Manuf1: | TSMC[2] |
| Arch: | ARMv8.6-A[3] |
| Code: | APL1V02 |
| Transistors: | 19 billion |
| Numcores: | 6 cores (4 efficiency + 2 performance)[4] |
| L1cache: | 320KB per P-core (192KB instruction + 128KB data) 224KB per E-core (128KB instruction + 96KB data) |
| L2cache: | 16MB (performance cores) 4MB (efficiency cores) |
| Llcache: | 24MB (system level cache) |
| Application: | Mobile (iPhone 15 Pro) |
| Amountmemory: | 8GB LPDDR5 |
| Gpu: | Apple-designed 6-core GPU |
| Predecessor: | Apple A16 |
| Variant: | Apple M3 |
The Apple A17 Pro is a 64-bit ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc., part of the Apple silicon series, and manufactured by TSMC.[5] It is used in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models only[6] and is the first widely available SoC to be built on a 3 nm process.[7] [8]
The Apple A17 Pro features an Apple-designed 64-bit ARMv8.6-A six-core CPU with two high-performance cores running at 3.78 GHz, and four energy-efficient cores running at 2.11 GHz.[1] 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.[9]
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 AV1 decoding and USB 3.2 Gen 2 (est. up to 10 Gb/s).[10] The A17 Pro contains 19 billion transistors, a 19% increase from the A16's transistor count of 16 billion, and is fabricated by TSMC on their 3 nm N3 process.
| Variant | CPU cores (P+E) | GPU | Neural Engine | Memory | Process | Transistor count | Used in | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cores | EUs | ALUs | Cores | Performance | ||||||
| A15 Bionic | 6 (2+4) | 5 | 80 | 640 | 16 | 15.8TOPS | 4GB LPDDR4X | TSMC N5P | 15 billion | Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) |
| 6 (2+4) | 4 | 64 | 512 | iPhone 13 | ||||||
| 5 | 80 | 640 | 4–6GB LPDDR4X | iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 14, iPad mini 6 | ||||||
| A16 Bionic | 17TOPS | 6GB LPDDR5 | TSMC N4P | 16 billion | iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 15 | |||||
| A17 Pro | 6 | 96 | 768 | 35TOPS | 8GB LPDDR5 | TSMC N3 | 19 billion | iPhone 15 Pro | ||
In the 2022 film M3GAN, the titular artificially intelligent humanoid robot character features an A17 Bionic Fusion Chip.[11]