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15.8teraflops
Apple says the fifth-generation 16-core Neural Engine, reached by 2021, is capable of 15.8 teraflops, which it puts at 26 times the processing power of the original.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“the fifth-generation of the 16-core ANE is capable of 26 times the processing power, or 15.8 TFlops, of the original”
Deploying Transformers on the Apple Neural Engine, Apple Machine Learning Research, Apple Machine Learning Research, 2022, The Apple Neural Engine section.
Open the original- What it measures
- Apple's description of the Neural Engine's history, from the first generation in the A11 chip of the iPhone X (2017) to the 2021 generation. The figure is peak throughput, the maximum the hardware can reach.
- What it does not show
- A theoretical peak, not a measured speed. The article does not say what the 15.8 figure measures in detail, and it gives no benchmark for dictation.