The iPhone does have a GPU, and it can be used to accelerate AI workloads.
This isn't theoretical. You can see this for yourself by installing https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mlc-chat/id6448482937 and turning off your wifi and running the quite capable Mistral 7B Instruct LLM on your phone.
I've even used it to answer simple questions while I was offline and only had my phone with me.
I didn't say an iPhone was as good as a desktop with a dedicated graphics card. I said that an iPhone has a GPU and is capable of running a small but capable LLM.
Most people don't know that's possible yet.
Why do keep indicating that iPhones don't have a GPU?
The iPhone does have a GPU, and it can be used to accelerate AI workloads.
This isn't theoretical. You can see this for yourself by installing https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mlc-chat/id6448482937 and turning off your wifi and running the quite capable Mistral 7B Instruct LLM on your phone.
I've even used it to answer simple questions while I was offline and only had my phone with me.
What am I missing here?