Thanks to a cooling design change, the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus might be faster than the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max.
The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are hardly selling as well as expected, as buyers overwhelmingly favor the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max. That’s partly Apple’s own doing, as its marketing failed to make the non-Pro models more compelling. The phones look like the iPhone 13 handsets, and they rock the same chip generation. That’s what most people would say.
The actual truth is that the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are the direct descendants of the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max. They’re not the successors of the non-Pro iPhone 13 models. As I explained before, the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are formidable phones that deliver flagship performance, even with last year’s chips.
Apple’s latest disclosures about the iPhone 14 design explain why that non-Pro iPhone 14’s performance might be even better than the iPhone 13 Pros.
As the recent set of Galaxy S23 Ultra benchmarks has shown, the A15 Bionic that powers the iPhone 13 and non-Pro iPhone 14 models is the best alternative to the A16 Bionic inside the iPhone 14 Pro models.
Apple didn’t just use the base A15 Bionic chip inside the base iPhone 13 models.
