| 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, iPad Mini (7th generation)) |
| Amountmemory: | 8GB LPDDR5 |
| Gpu: | Apple-designed 5- or 6- core GPU |
| Predecessor: | Apple A16 Bionic |
| Successor: | Apple A18 Pro (iPhone 16 Pro, 16 Pro Max) |
| 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, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad Mini (7th generation)[6] models[7] and is the first widely available SoC to be built on a 3 nm process.[8] This chip does not have a non-Pro variant, as Apple moved to the TSMC N3E manufacturing node technology and announced the A18 Series on September 9, 2024, with the A18 and the A18 Pro respectively replacing the A16 and the A17 Pro on the new iPhone 16 lineup.[9]
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.[10]
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 (up to 10 Gb/s).[11] 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.
The A17 Pro is the first SoC used in Apple devices to support hardware decoding of AV1 video.[12]
| Variant | CPU cores (P+E) | GPU | Neural Engine | Memory | Process | Transistor count | Used in | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cores | EUs | ALUs | Cores | Performance | ||||||
| A15 Bionic | 5 (2+3) | 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 | ||
| 5 | 80 | 640 | iPad Mini (A17 Pro) | |||||||