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Apple A6 vs Rockchip RK3188

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.

Rockchip RK3188

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The Rockchip RK3188 is a fast ARM SoC primarily designed for tablets. It integrates four ARM Cortex A9 cores with NEON extension and a clock speed of up to 1.8 GHz, a Mali-400 MP4 graphics card (up to 600 MHz, 24 GFLOPS) and a low-power (LP-)DDR2/DDR3 memory controller. Due to the high clock rates, the performance of the CPU and GPU is superior to other Cortex-A9 quad-cores such as the Nvidia Tegra 3 and Samsung Exynos 4412. These high frequencies are possible due to the 28nm process (TSMC). However, this results in high power consumption and is thus not suited for compact smartphones.

ModelApple A6Rockchip RK3188
SeriesApple
Series: Cortex-A9
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W compare1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T310 compare1.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3288 compare1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x compare1.4 GHzcores
Apple A6 « 1 GHzcores
Apple S5 compare2 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK3168 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz compare1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz compare1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz compare1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz compare0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR8670 compare0.08 GHzcores
ARM Cortex-M4 compare cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 compare cores
DK3.5+ST comparecores
unknown compare cores
HiSilicon Kirin 910T compare1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
Rockchip RK3188 « 1.8 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 compare1.2 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 MHz1800 MHz
Cores / Threads24 / 4
Technology32 nm28 nm
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
CodenameCortex-A9
FeaturesMali-400 MP4 (600 MHz), DDR2/DDR3 Memory Controller (max. 2 GByte)
iGPUARM Mali-400 MP4 (600 MHz)
Manufacturerwww.rock-chips.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
A6 +
7961 Points (6%)
min: 5828     avg: 7773     median: 7936 (6%)     max: 8887 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
A6 +
7816 Points (6%)
min: 5434     avg: 7724     median: 8025.5 (7%)     max: 8812 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 9142     avg: 9821     median: 9821 (8%)     max: 10500 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
100%
A6 +
1273 Points (2%)
min: 1316     avg: 1410     median: 1421 (3%)     max: 1493 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
A6 +
min: 701     avg: 706     median: 705.5 (14%)     max: 710 Points
min: 476     avg: 498.7     median: 504 (10%)     max: 516 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
A6 +
940 Points (8%)
min: 182     avg: 320     median: 272 (2%)     max: 506 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
A6 +
1867 Points (17%)
min: 326     avg: 687     median: 803 (7%)     max: 933 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
A6 +
2114 Points (4%)
min: 1769     avg: 2044     median: 2035 (4%)     max: 2328 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
A6 +
1261 Points (3%)
min: 924     avg: 1123     median: 1104 (2%)     max: 1341 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
A6 +
1648 Points (4%)
min: 1130     avg: 1275     median: 1182 (3%)     max: 1512 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
100%
A6 +
min: 484     avg: 530     median: 529.5 (18%)     max: 575 MFLOPS
min: 130     avg: 131.1     median: 131.1 (4%)     max: 132.1 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
100%
A6 +
min: 309.4     avg: 337.3     median: 337.3 (33%)     max: 365.2 MFLOPS
min: 54.9     avg: 57.2     median: 57.2 (6%)     max: 59.4 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
14535 ms (17%)
13698 ms (16%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
min: 714     avg: 722     median: 722 (8%)     max: 730 ms
min: 849     avg: 1179     median: 1240 (14%)     max: 1388 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
935 ms (9%)
min: 702     avg: 986     median: 1086 (10%)     max: 1170 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 3092     avg: 3094     median: 3093.5 (3%)     max: 3095 Points
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
5287 points (12%)
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 7505     avg: 7723     median: 7807 (51%)     max: 7856 Points
AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 2139     avg: 14154     median: 19571 (46%)     max: 20752 Points
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 179     avg: 329     median: 374 (11%)     max: 434 Iter./s
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 10329     avg: 11213     median: 11588 (38%)     max: 11722 Iter./s
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
A6 +
24996 Points (3%)
min: 9258     avg: 10743     median: 10965 (1%)     max: 11782 Points

Average Benchmarks Apple A6 → 100% n=15

Average Benchmarks Rockchip RK3188 → 73% n=15

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