Apple A10 Fusion vs ARM Cortex-M4
Apple A10 Fusion
The Apple A10 Fusion is a system on a chip (SoC) from Apple that is built into the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. It integrates four 64 Bit cores that are divided in two clusters. Two high performance cores are clocked at up to 2.34 GHz and should be around 40% faster than the Apple A9 (according to Apple) and two low power cores (up to 1.1 GHz?). Up to now its unclear if all four cores can be used at once (that need only 1/5 th of the energy in some use cases). At the release of the iPhone 7 it looks like that IOS is only using two cores at a time and automatically switches between the two clusters. Therefore, apps are seeing only a dual core. The principle is similar to the first generation of ARMs big.LITTLE concept.
The integrated graphics card of the SoC will most likely stem from PowerVR (again) and perform 50% faster at 2/3 of the power consumption (according to Apple).
All in all the chip includes 3.3 billion transistors, which is more than a current AMD Bristol Ridge (3.1) and Skylake Quad-Core (1.75) X86 SoCs.
Sources: Apple Keynote, Ars Technica
ARM Cortex-M4
► remove from comparison| Model | Apple A10 Fusion | ARM Cortex-M4 |
| Codename | APL1021 Hurricane / Zephyr | |
| Series | Apple Apple A-Series | |
| Clock | 2340 MHz | |
| Cores / Threads | 4 / 2 | |
| Transistors | 3300 Million | |
| Technology | 16 nm | |
| Features | ARMv8 Instruction Set | |
| iGPU | Apple A10 Fusion GPU / PowerVR (900 MHz) | |
| Architecture | ARM | |
| Announced |
Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks Apple A10 Fusion → 0% n=0
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
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