The A17 Pro has been manufactured by TSMC using the 3nm process. It’s the biggest manufacturing process jump since 2020’s 5nm tech but performance gains aren’t particularly impressive, with Apple saying that the CPU is 10 percent faster and the GPU is 20 percent faster.
On top of that, the iPhone 15 Pro gets toasty even with regular use, and that too pretty quickly. So, what’s happening?
Since the iPhone 15 Pro heats up so quickly, thermal throttling kicks in earlier compared to previous iPhones, meaning the performance drops rather quickly. This is done to protect the phone’s components and also you, the user, as the phone can get as hot as 118.58F, which is a high enough temperature to cause a first-degree burn. It also doesn’t help that the phone doesn’t have a cooling solution.
