Thanks to cooling in the pair chamber, tracking rays, tensor cores and a high content screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium computer, but I will stick to my trusted elderly steam deck, thanks

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On the ninth day of the ninth month in 2025, Apple chewed 17. The arrival of the Saint iPhone. Yes, there is another iPhone, iPhone 17 ProAnd if the numbering scheme does not flirt with the satire, the degree to which this is certainly the latest iPhone iPhone from Apple.

You don’t believe me? If I told you that the fresh device is sold for four numbers with a high, adaptive refresh screen, supported by a sales jump, which “AAA Gaming” and “hardware radiation tracking” and which introduces tensor cores to the newly improved GPU, what would you say?

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Oh, wait, it will also meet the cooling of the steam chamber for the processor and GPU, this time the performance improvements are a bit incremental, but the price has ever increased. Do you see what I mean? This is a jump of a fresh game or laptop computer.

This is probably fresh cooling from the pair chamber that catches the eye. This is not the first for a smartphone, but when Apple sticks the technology into one of its devices, you know that the mainstream has gone completely.

To quote the apple: “Dejonized water is sealed inside the steam chamber, which is laser burned to the aluminum chassis to move heat from the powerful A19 Pro, enabling it to work at even higher levels of performance. Heat transferred to the aluminum unibody starting, where it is spread by the system by the system, power management and surface management to the implementation maintenance.

Also, according to Apple, the Vapor chamber allows the new A19 PRO system to provide 40% greater efficiency compared to the A18 Pro in the iPhone 16 series. In fact, this term “maintained” is crucial.

Is the vapor chamber in the iPhone here or just a short-lived repair until there is better silicon? (Image loan: Apple)

A19 Pro looks like an incremental degree above the A18 system. Probably because it is the third system of Apple smartphones that was built on the N3 TSMC node. In other words, it is not in the upcoming N2 node, so there is probably a limit of what Apple can do with A19 Pro.

This kind of I wonder if Apple quietly abandon the vapor chamber for the next fresh generation iPhone, assuming that it has a system based on N2, but digression. The point is that the incremental character of A19 Pro Chip is certainly the fragrance from the latest NVIDIA GPU RTX 50 series, like the RTX 5070, which is produced only on a slightly different removal of the TSMC N5 node, on which the RTX 40 series was also based.

Another parallelism of NVIDIA GPU is the introduction of what Apple calls neural accelerators to the A19 Pro GPU. There are equivalent equipment for tensor cores in the NVIDIA graphics processor, and especially noteworthy, if you take into account that all iPhone systems from A11 in 2017 and in this fresh A19 Pro also have a dedicated NPU or neural processing unit.


Apple iPhone 17 Pro

(Image loan: Apple)

Apple is not really specific as to what “neural accelerators” will be used for as separate from NPU. But if Apple would like, say, increased ml, doing it on the GPU, and not NPU, has clear advantages when it comes to times and delay. Again, it resembles a game computer.

Of course, the computer arrived there first with all these things, whether it was a pair chamber, a display with high refreshing or GPU AI cores and rays tracking support. But personally, I don’t get a majority for a smartphone.

The 120 Hz display is pretty enough and will make the phone feel responsible. But tracking Ray and a steam chamber? Games on such a petite device will never affect high -class visualization. I would prefer slightly less performance and much more battery life. Does the iPhone really need or apply this type of extreme cooling?

In this respect and many others, the more true comparison is of course a steam deck as opposed to a stationary set. The waist is also not about the latest functions or the last word in Ray Training. In fact, the deck has no cooling of the steam chamber. And the iPhone should probably not either.

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