GPUIntegrated (APU)Released Sep 20, 2024

Apple A18 GPU (5-core)

64-bit · 640 cores

The 5-core GPU of the A18, used in the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus. It carries over the hardware ray tracing, mesh shading and Dynamic Caching introduced with the A17 Pro, and Apple rates it up to 40% faster than the A16 Bionic GPU, or equal performance at 35% lower power. The iPhone 16e uses a binned A18 with a 4-core GPU.

General

Manufacturer: Apple
Model: A18 GPU (5-core)
Segment: Integrated (APU)
GPU chip: Apple A18
Architecture: Apple GPU (Family 9)
Release date: Sep 20, 2024
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Memory

Memory size: —
Memory type: LPDDR5X (unified)
Bus width: 64-bit
Bandwidth: —
Memory clock: —

Clocks & silicon

GPU clock: —
Boost clock: —
Shader units: 640 ALUs (5 cores)
Tensor / AI cores: —
RT cores: 5
Transistors: 15.2 billion
Technology (nm): 3 nm
TSMC N3E
TDP / TBP: —

Interface & APIs

Bus interface: Integrated (on-die)
SLI / multi-GPU: None
DirectX: N/A (iOS / iPadOS)
OpenGL: ES 3.0 (deprecated)
Vulkan: via MoltenVK
Other APIs: Metal 4, hardware ray tracing, mesh shading, Dynamic Caching

AI support

Precisions: FP8FP16BF16INT8INT4TF32FP64
AI accelerator: 16-core Neural Engine (35 TOPS, SoC)
Peak AI TOPS: 35 TOPS
Notes: The GPU supports FP16, BF16 and INT8 compute through Metal and has hardware-accelerated ray tracing. The 16-core Neural Engine (35 TOPS) is a separate SoC block.

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