The Air has a slightly cut-down version of the new A19 Pro chip. In line with its traditions, Apple announced the new iPhone series with a new in-house.
In line with its traditions, Apple announced the new iPhone series with a new in-house chip, which is now called Apple A19 Pro. The chip powers the new iPhone 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max and the iPhone Air, which replaces the 16 Plus from a year before. Only the vanilla iPhone 17 runs on the non-Pro version of the new chipset.
While we are working on the full iPhone 17 series reviews, we compiled some early benchmarks to give us an idea of the iPhone Air’s performance with the A19 Pro on board.
The A19 Pro inside the Air isn’t the full-fledged SoC that’s inside the 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max. It swaps out the 6-core GPU for a 5-core one, just like the one inside the standard iPhone 17 this year.
