• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    iPhone XR & XS were released 6 years ago. That’s solid support longevity.

    It makes sense that Apple Intelligence only works on current and next-gen hardware. The A17 Pro chip has a 16-core Neural Engine performing at 35 TOPS, twice that of the A16 Bionic’s 17 TOPS.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A17

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      5 months ago

      Yeah I thought it was a NPU tops issue that’s keeping it off the 17 non pro. However since it runs on a M1 I think it’s more to do with needing 8GB RAM to fit the model.

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          5 months ago

          The A16 Bionic has as Neural Engine capable of 17 TOPS but 6GB of RAM.

          The M1 had a Neural Engine capable of just 11 TOPS but all M1 chips have at least 8GB of RAM.

          So the model could run on an A16 Bionic if it had 8GB of RAM as it has 54% more TOPS than the M1, but it only has 6GB of RAM. Apple have clearly decided that a model small enough to fit just wouldn’t give good enough results.

          Maybe as research progresses they’ll find a way to make it work with a model with fewer parameters but I’m not going to hold my breath.