Although many people have been saying that the performance of current mobile phone chips has been excessive, as long as the system is well adapted and optimized, the 7nm chip is not inferior to the 3nm chip, and it is as smooth.
But everyone knows in their hearts that this is just a trick to fool people, for mobile phone chips, there is no such thing as overperformance, operating system function upgrades, APP function upgrades, and various AI algorithm upgrades all rely on computing power to pile up.
If 7nm is enough, Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek are constantly upgrading chips, from 7nm to 5nm, and then to 3nm, the upgrade cost is huge, are they stupid?It's safe to say that these companies aren't stupid, but maybe they're just believing in overperformance.
After all, even if you think that 7nm chips are not inferior to 3nm, at least you have to know what 3nm chips have excess performance, or 4nm and 5nm chips, and how strong you are.
As shown in the figure above, we take Qualcomm's 4nm chip Snapdragon 8Gen3 as the benchmark, and believe that its CPU performance is 100%, GPU energy is also 100%, and comprehensive power is 100%, looking at the ratio of other chips to it.
There is only one chip that is stronger than Snapdragon 8gen3, and that is MediaTek's Dimensity 9300, with a comprehensive performance of 104%, which is 4% higher than Snapdragon 8gen3.
Although Apple's A17 Pro is a 3nm chip, the CPU performance is also very strong, but the GPU is much inferior, so the total performance is only 89%, which is 11% lower.
These three chips are the top chips at present, followed by high-end chips, which are Apple's A16, Snapdragon 8Gen2, Dimensity 9200+, and A15 chips.
Then there are mid-to-high-end chips, which are Snapdragon 8+Gen1, A14, Dimensity 9000, Snapdragon 8Gen1, and Snapdragon 7+Gen2.
And then to the mid-range chip, here is A13, Dimensity 8200, Kirin 9000, Kirin 9000s, Snapdragon 888, etc., the Kirin 9000s that everyone is most concerned about, ranked 17th, can only be regarded as a mid-range chip at present, with a performance base of 49%, which is about half of the performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8gen3.
From this data, it is estimated that everyone can basically see the current level of chips.
The more advanced the process, the stronger the performance will be under the same power consumption, and the power consumption will be lower under the same performance.
Therefore, on the premise of being as much as possible, people will still use more advanced processes to reduce power consumption or improve performance.