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Apple A6 vs Broadcom BCM21664T

Apple A6

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The Apple A6 is a dual-core SoC found in the iPhone 5 with ARM compatible CPU cores. The A6 was developed by Apple and supports the extended ARMv7s instruction set. The clock rate of the CPU is between 800 to 1200 MHz depending on the CPU load. The integrated GPU is a PowerVR SGX543MP3 at 266 MHz.

Broadcom BCM21664T

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The Broadcom BCM21664T is an ARM based entry-level SoC for smartphones that integrates two Cortex-A9 CPU cores clocked at up to 1.2 GHz and a HSPA+ modem with support for 21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.8 Mbps HSUPA. Furthermore, a VideoCore-IV GPU and a video decoder (H.264 1080p capable) and encoder (720p) are built into the SoC.

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ModelApple A6Broadcom BCM21664T
SeriesApple Broadcom
Series: Cortex-A9
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Apple A6x compare1.4 GHz2 cores
Apple A6 « 1 GHz2 cores
Apple S5 compare2 / 2 cores
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Amlogic AML8726-MX compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
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ARM Cortex-M4 compare cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 compare cores
DK3.5+ST compare2 cores
unknown compare cores
HiSilicon Kirin 910T compare1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
Rockchip RK3188 compare1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
HiSilicon Kirin 910 compare1.6 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
Renesas MP5232 compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
Broadcom BCM21664T « 1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
Marvell PXA986 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
NXP i.MX 6SLL compare1 GHz1 / 1 cores Cortex-A9
WonderMedia PRIZM WM8950 compare1 GHz1 / 1 cores Cortex-A9
Clock1000 MHz1200 MHz
Cores / Threads22 / 2
Technology32 nm
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
CodenameCortex-A9
FeaturesHSPA+ modem, H.264 1080p decoder, 720p encoder

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
A6 +
7961 Points (6%)
3801 Points (3%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
A6 +
7816 Points (6%)
3846 Points (3%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
100%
A6 +
1273 Points (2%)
658 Points (1%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
A6 +
min: 701     avg: 706     median: 705.5 (14%)     max: 710 Points
353 Points (7%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 A6 +
940 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 A6 +
1867 Points (17%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 A6 +
2114 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 A6 +
1261 Points (3%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 A6 +
1648 Points (4%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
100%
A6 +
min: 484     avg: 530     median: 529.5 (18%)     max: 575 MFLOPS
75.7 MFLOPS (3%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
100%
A6 +
min: 309.4     avg: 337.3     median: 337.3 (33%)     max: 365.2 MFLOPS
15.8 MFLOPS (2%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
14535 ms (17%)
16763 ms (20%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
min: 714     avg: 722     median: 722 (8%)     max: 730 ms
1316 ms (14%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
935 ms (9%)
1348 ms (13%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
2121 Points (2%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
3490 points (8%)
AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score
12059 Points (28%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
180 Iter./s (6%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
4041 Iter./s (13%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
A6 +
24996 Points (3%)
4230 Points (1%)

Average Benchmarks Apple A6 → 100% n=10

Average Benchmarks Broadcom BCM21664T → 52% n=10

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