10% faster P cores, E cores are the same speed. Some updates to the neural core thing that no one cares about. How is that insane?

how about ray tracing and playing RE 4 on your phone ?

Resident Evil 4, from 2005?

No, Resident Evil 4 from 2023.

How large is the overlap between people who care a lot about playing games on their phones and those who can afford buying the latest $1000 smartphone every once in a while? Because I'd think the former are mostly teenagers.

I guess by games you mean console games,mobile games are huge now. I have a steam deck and bought all nintendo and sony portables in the past,would be great if I can play some on my iPhone,which is always available to me.

Probably best to reserve judgement until independent benchmarks come out, but the new GPU cores _may_ be quite a big deal. The GPU core used in the last few gens of iPhone chip (and the M1/M2) is now quite old, and was actually supposed to be replaced last year. This one should be expected to be a significant leap forward (though, again, don't believe Apple on this, wait for independent tests).