The vanilla A18 chip also gets the new NPU treatment and it’s largely the same as its Pro sibling. It has a 6-core CPU with the same setup and it’s 30% faster than last year’s A16 Bionic found in the vanilla iPhone 15 and 15 Plus. It also uses 30% less power than its predecessor for the same workloads.
The difference lies within the GPU and the image processing capabilities. The non-Pro doesn’t get the so-called “Advanced media” features, while the GPU gets a 5-core setup instead of a 6-core setup. It’s still pretty fast, though, as Apple claims 40% gains in graphics performance over the A16 Bionic and uses 35% less power, too.