Report: iPhone 17 Air may have slower GPU speed than the rest of the iPhone 17 lineup

One month before the launch of the iPhone 17 series, there are only a few details that have not yet been agreed. One of these chip concerns in the air of the iPhone 17.

In October 2024, the specialist in the Ming-Chi Kuo industry reported that the new slim iPhone would use an A19 chip, as is the standard iPhone 17. A leak on the Chinese social media platform Weibo has now contradicted this: digital fixed focus affirmations according to which the GPU nucleus has rather led.

A standard A19 chip should have 6 GPU cores, while the Binned version in the air of the iPhone 17 would have 5 GPU cores. The difference in performance would be noticeable in references, but not so much in practice. The only times, it would be noticeable would be with demanding games (which would put notable pressure on the lifespan of the most thin iPhone battery) and during the editing and rendering of high -resolution videos, which should also be secondary on the air of the iPhone 17 with a single camera.

Fixed Focus Digital had said a week ago that Apple had finalized the development of its own image sensor for the iPhone camera, in July, that the air of the iPhone 17 would be in a whole new shade of blue and that the standard iPhone 17 would not have a professional display, and in April that the iPhone 17th would be published in spring 2026.

A little over a year ago, Fix Focus Digital said, contrary to the opinion of many others, that the iPhone SE 4, which has since been published as iPhone 16th, would use the iPhone 16 case. This assertion has proven to be false – it actually uses the iPhone 14 case. So that corrects digital focus reports for what they are worth.

Apple should publish the models of the iPhone 17 during an event on September 9. Learn more about the iPhone 17.