The iPhone 14 series has a 38% 5G speed boost thanks to the 5G Snapdragon X65 baseband chip
Oct 09, 2022| The iPhone 14 series has a 38% 5G speed boost thanks to the 5G Snapdragon X65 baseband chip
According to the dismantling media released the dismantling report shows that the iPhone14 Pro and iPhone14 Pro Max two models are equipped with the baseband of Qualcomm's fourth generation 5G baseband -- Snapdragon X65, which is the same model as the current mainstream of Android Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 8+ used in the baseband.
It is reported that Snapdragon X65 released in February 2021, is the world's first in line with 3GPP Release 16 specifications of 5G baseband, the biggest feature of this baseband is the data transmission rate increased to as high as 10Gbps level. At the same time, Snapdragon X65 also provides the most comprehensive spectrum aggregation, covering all the main 5G frequency bands including millimeter wave and Sub-6GHz frequency band.
It's worth mentioning that in a recent 5G speed comparison chart released by SpeedSmart, the average speed of the iPhone 14 Pro is 38% higher than that of the iPhone 13 Pro. The test was conducted on both T-Mobile and Verizon's 5G networks, and the iPhone 14 Pro's 5G uplink speed was improved on both carriers, up to 255Mbps and above, and the downlink speed was also increased from 22Mbps to 28Mbps.
The better results for Apple's iPhone 14 Pro were attributed to Qualcomm's new 5G Snapdragon X65 baseband chip. The Apple iPhone 13 Pro features a Snapdragon X60. The new 5G X65 baseband chip supports download speeds of up to 10Gbps (7.5Gbps for the X60) and it uses less power than its predecessor. It's not just the Pro model, the non-Pro models of Apple's iPhone 14, aka the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, also come with the new 5G Snapdragon X65 baseband chip.
