iPhone 11 Power and Performance

The iPhone SE is powered by the exact same A13 chip that’s found in Apple’s iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro Max. This is actually a pretty respectable notch above the just-announced 2020 iPad Pro, which still includes only a variation on the 2018-era A12 chip.

In practical terms, this means that you could spend $1,449 — over $1K more — on an iPhone 11 Pro Max and it wouldn’t be any faster at playing games or performing machine learning tasks than the humble new iPhone SE. There are definitely valid reasons to pay more for an iPhone 11, but getting top-notch performance is no longer among them.