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Apple A10 Fusion

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

CodenameAPL1021 Hurricane / Zephyr
SeriesApple Apple A-Series
Clock Rate2340 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads4 / 2
Transistor Count3300 Million
Manufacturing Technology16 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction Set
GPUApple A10 Fusion GPU / PowerVR (900 MHz)
64 Bit64 Bit support
ArchitectureARM
Announcement Date09/08/2016

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 9189     avg: 14249     median: 15479 (13%)     max: 15626 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1252     avg: 1437     median: 1434.5 (13%)     max: 1627 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1408     avg: 1525     median: 1518 (17%)     max: 1690 Points
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Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 766     avg: 773     median: 777 (30%)     max: 777 points
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Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 1361     avg: 1403     median: 1421 (3%)     max: 1426 points
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Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 767     avg: 771     median: 771 (3%)     max: 775 points
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Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 1426     avg: 1429     median: 1429 (5%)     max: 1432 points
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Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 2672     avg: 3233     median: 3499 (35%)     max: 3527 points
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Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4508     avg: 5461     median: 5922 (6%)     max: 5952 points
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 3476     avg: 3483     median: 3483 (46%)     max: 3490 points
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 5585     avg: 5608     median: 5607.5 (14%)     max: 5630 points
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 1026     avg: 1178     median: 1113 (1%)     max: 1531 ms
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 19783     avg: 25316     median: 26053 (21%)     max: 27967 Points
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WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 79     avg: 95     median: 95 (17%)     max: 111 Points
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AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 142532     avg: 153966     median: 153966 (52%)     max: 165399 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 6141     avg: 9979     median: 10439 (32%)     max: 12895 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
min: 32746     avg: 45782     median: 47936.5 (59%)     max: 54510 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 45772     avg: 54850     median: 52519 (16%)     max: 68591 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 50770     avg: 65083     median: 60084.5 (37%)     max: 89394 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 160578     avg: 175694     median: 165802 (29%)     max: 210596 Points
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 49294     avg: 49329     median: 49329 (6%)     max: 49364 Points
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CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
359 Points (13%)
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Reviews for the Apple A10 Fusion processor

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Apple iPad 6 2018

Apple iPad 6 2018 Tablet Review

Now with Pencil support. Apple refreshes its iPad and equips the tablet with a new chip (SoC), and the Apple Pencil is now supported as well. This was reserved ...
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Apple iPhone 7 Plus Smartphone Review

Apple iPhone 7 Plus Smartphone Review

The second one features better zooming. The Apple iPhone 7 Plus is showing off with two main cameras and a powerful processor. All of this is sitting inside a w...
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Apple iPhone 7 Smartphone Review

Apple iPhone 7 Smartphone Review

Now, it is also waterproof. The case of the new iPhone is now also protected against water and dust. There are also improvements in respect to the camera as wel...
Apple A10 Fusion | Apple A10 Fusion GPU / PowerVR | 4.70" | 138 g

Apple iPad 7 2019: Apple A10 Fusion GPU / PowerVR, 10.20", 0.5 kg
  External Review » Apple iPad 7 2019

Apple iPad 6 2018: Apple A10 Fusion GPU / PowerVR, 9.70", 0.5 kg
  External Review » Apple iPad 6 2018

Apple iPhone 7 Plus: Apple A10 Fusion GPU / PowerVR, 5.50", 0.2 kg
  External Review » Apple iPhone 7 Plus

Apple iPhone 7: Apple A10 Fusion GPU / PowerVR, 4.70", 0.1 kg
  External Review » Apple iPhone 7

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Surrounding CPUs

+ Samsung Exynos W1000
   5x 1.5 GHz
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (8998)
   8x 2.45 GHz
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   8x 1.8 GHz - 2 GHz
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   8x 2.6 GHz
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   8x 1.7 GHz - 2.3 GHz
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   8x 2.5 GHz
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   8x 2.3 GHz