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Apple A5

The Apple A5 is a dual-core processor that contains two Cortex A9 cores. Each core is max. clocked at 900 MHz. Furthermore, the A5 integrates a relative fast PowerVR SGX 543MP2 graphics card and 512MB ram (in the same package for the iPad 2). Apple states a maximum of 2x the performance compared to the previous single core Apple A4.

SeriesApple
CodenameCortex A9
Series: Cortex A9
Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 (compare)1500 MHz2 / 2
Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 (compare)1200 MHz2 / 2
Broadcom BCM28155 (compare)1200 MHz2 / 2
Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 (compare)1000 MHz2 / 2
Apple A5x (compare)1000 MHz2
» Apple A51000 MHz2
Clock Rate1000 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads2
Manufacturing Technology40, 32 nm
Announcement Date03/02/2011

Benchmarks

Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Stream
min: 297     avg: 317.7     median: 323 (3%)     max: 333 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Memory
min: 751     avg: 807.3     median: 833 (8%)     max: 838 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Floating Point
min: 737     avg: 855.3     median: 906 (2%)     max: 923 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Integer
min: 552     avg: 638     median: 671 (1%)     max: 691 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Total Score
min: 631     avg: 715     median: 750 (2%)     max: 764 Points
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Linpack Android / IOS - Multi Thread
min: 124     avg: 127.1     median: 127 (4%)     max: 129 MFLOPS
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Linpack Android / IOS - Single Thread
min: 78     avg: 81.8     median: 81 (8%)     max: 85 MFLOPS
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Sunspider - 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 1556     avg: 1863     median: 1888 (18%)     max: 2118 ms
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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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Reviews for the Apple A5 processor

Apple iPad 2 (PowerVR SGX543MP2, 9.7")
» Review Apple iPad 2 Tablet/MID - Review
» Apple iPad 2 - External Review

Apple iPad mini (PowerVR SGX543MP2, 7.9")
» Review Apple iPad Mini Tablet - Review
» Apple iPad mini - External Review

Apple iPhone 4S (PowerVR SGX543MP2, 3.8")
» Apple iPhone 4S - External Review

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Other CPUs of the series

» AMD PRO 300U
   2.4 GHz / 1 MB L2 + 4 MB L3
» AMD 300U
   2.4 GHz / 1 MB L2 + 4 MB L3
» HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G
   
» HiSilicon Kirin 990
   
» Kirin 970
   2.4 GHz
» Kirin 960
   2.4 GHz
» Kirin 960s
   2.1 GHz
» Apple A9X
   2.26 GHz
» Kirin 955
   2.5 GHz
» Kirin 950
   2.3 GHz
» Mediatek MT6797X
   2.6 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 710
   2.2 GHz
» Apple A9
   1.8 GHz
» Apple A8X
   1.5 GHz / 2 MB L2 + 4 MB L3
» Apple A8
   1.4 GHz / 1 MB L2 + 4 MB L3
» SC9863A
   1.6 GHz
» VIA Nano QuadCore L4700
   1.2 GHz / 4 MB L2
» Kirin 925
   1.8 GHz
» Kirin 920
   1.7 GHz
» Kirin 935
   2.2 GHz
» Kirin 659
   2.36 GHz
» Kirin 658
   2.35 GHz
» Kirin 655
   2.1 GHz
» Kirin 650
   2 GHz
» Kirin 930
   2 GHz
» Apple A7
   1.3 GHz / 1 MB L2 + 4 MB L3
» RK3288
   1.8 GHz
» Kirin 910T
   1.8 GHz
» Mediatek MT8161
   1.3 GHz
» RK3188
   1.8 GHz
» Kirin 620
   1.2 GHz
» Kirin 910
   1.6 GHz
» Intel Celeron 220
   1.2 GHz / 0.5 MB L2
» AMD GX-210JA
   1 GHz / 1 MB L2
» Apple A6x
   1.4 GHz
» Apple A6
   1 GHz
» Apple S5
   
» Intel Celeron 2.8
   2.8 GHz / 0.1 MB L2
» OMAP 4470
   1.5 GHz
» k3v2 Hi3620
   1.2 GHz
» RK3066
   1.5 GHz / 0.5 MB L2
» MP5232
   1.5 GHz
» Broadcom BCM21664T
   1.2 GHz
» AML8726-MX
   1.5 GHz / 0.5 MB L2
» OMAP 4460
   1.2 GHz
» RK3168
   1.2 GHz
» Broadcom BCM28155
   1.2 GHz
» OMAP 4430
   1 GHz
» Apple A5x
   1 GHz
» Apple A5
   1 GHz
» Samsung 9110
   
» NovaThor U8500
   1 GHz
» NovaThor U8420
   1 GHz
» i.MX 6SLL
   1 GHz / 0.3 MB L2
» Qualcomm S2 MSM8255
   1.5 GHz
» RK2918 1.2 GHz
   1.2 GHz
» A10
   1.2 GHz
» Cortex A8 1.2 GHz
   1.2 GHz
» Apple A4
   1 GHz
» A13
   1 GHz
» WM8950
   1 GHz
» OMAP 3630 1GHz
   1 GHz
» OMAP 3622
   1 GHz
» RK2918
   1 GHz
» TCC8803 1GHz
   1 GHz
» ZiiLABS ZMS-08
   1 GHz
» Cortex A8
   1 GHz
» ATM7029
   1 GHz
» Loongson 2F
   0.9 GHz / 0.5 MB L2
» CSR8670
   0.08 GHz
» unknown
   

Surrounding CPUs

- Mediatek MT6572
   1.2 GHz / 1 MB
- Spreadtrum SC8830
   1.2 GHz / 0.5 MB
- Apple A5x
   1 GHz / 0 MB
- Intel Atom Z2420
   1.2 GHz / 0.5 MB
» Apple A5
   1 GHz
+ NVIDIA Tegra 2 (250)
   1 GHz / 1024 KB
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8210
   1.2 GHz / KB
+ Mediatek MT8317T
   1.2 GHz / KB
+ Mediatek MT6577
   1 GHz / KB
+ Samsung 9110
   0 GHz / KB
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2013-07-22)