Apple A5x

The Apple A5x is a dual-core processor that contains two Cortex A9 cores. The A5x integrates a relative fast Quad-Core PowerVR SGX 543MP4 graphics card and is used in the third generation iPad with Retina Display.

Series

Apple

Codename

Cortex A9

Series: Cortex A9

Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 (compare)	1500 MHz	2 / 2
Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 (compare)	1200 MHz	2 / 2
Broadcom BCM28155 (compare)	1200 MHz	2 / 2
Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 (compare)	1000 MHz	2 / 2
» Apple A5x	1000 MHz	2
Apple A5 (compare)	1000 MHz	2

Clock Rate

1000 MHz

Number of Cores / Threads

2

Manufacturing Technology

32? nm

Announcement Date

03/06/2012

Benchmarks

3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Physics 1280x720

2858 Points (2%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Physics 1920x1080

2865 Points (3%)

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Stream

333 Points (3%)

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Memory

818 Points (7%)

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Floating Point

920 Points (3%)

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Integer

687 Points (2%)

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Total Score

759 Points (3%)

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Geekbench 3 - 32 Bit Multi-Core Score

496 Points (2%)

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Geekbench 3 - 32 Bit Single-Core Score

262 Points (5%)

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Geekbench 4.0 - 64 Bit Multi-Core Score

566 Points (2%)

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Geekbench 4.0 - 64 Bit Single-Core Score

330 Points (6%)

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Linpack Android / IOS - Multi Thread

142 MFLOPS (5%)

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Linpack Android / IOS - Single Thread

87.8 MFLOPS (9%)

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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Total Score *

31272 ms (53%)

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Sunspider - 1.0 Total Score *

1307 ms (14%)

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Sunspider - 0.9.1 Total Score *

min: 1329 avg: 1594.5 median: 1594.5 (15%) max: 1860 ms

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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - CPU Tests

11087 Points (1%)

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Reviews for the Apple A5x processor

Apple iPad 3. Gen 2012-03 (PowerVR SGX543MP4, 9.7")
» Review Apple iPad 3rd Gen. 2012 4G Tablet - Review
» Apple iPad 2012-03 - 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 980

» 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

» Mediatek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz
1.5 GHz

» Kirin 910T
1.8 GHz

» Mediatek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz
1.3 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

» Marvell Technology Group Armada PXA1908
1.2 GHz

» Apple A6x
1.4 GHz

» Apple A6
1 GHz

» Marvell Technology Group PXA1088
1.2 GHz

» 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

» Marvell Technology Group PXA986
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

» NovaThor U8500
1 GHz

» NovaThor U8420
1 GHz

» 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

» Samsung Hummingbird S5PC110 / Exynos 3110
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 MT8377
1.2 GHz / 1 MB

- Broadcom BCM28155
1.2 GHz / 0 MB

- OMAP 4430
1 GHz / 0 MB

- Mediatek MT6572
1.2 GHz / 1 MB

- Spreadtrum SC8830
1.2 GHz / 0.5 MB

» Apple A5x
1 GHz

+ Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225
1.5 GHz / KB

+ Intel Atom Z2420
1.2 GHz / 512 KB

+ Apple A5
1 GHz / KB

+ NVIDIA Tegra 2 (250)
1 GHz / 1024 KB

+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8210
1.2 GHz / KB

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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2013-07-22)