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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.

SeriesApple
CodenameCortex A9
Series: Cortex A9
Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 Cortex A9
Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 Cortex A9
Broadcom BCM28155 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 Cortex A9
Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 compare1 GHz2 / 2 Cortex A9
» Apple A5x1 GHz2 Cortex A9
Apple A5 compare1 GHz2 Cortex A9
Clock Rate1000 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads2
Manufacturing Technology32? nm
ArchitectureARM
Announcement Date03/06/2012

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
2858 Points (2%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
2865 Points (3%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
333 Points (3%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
818 Points (7%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
920 Points (2%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
687 Points (1%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
759 Points (2%)
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
496 points (1%)
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
262 points (5%)
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
330 points (5%)
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
566 points (1%)
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
142 MFLOPS (5%)
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
87.8 MFLOPS (9%)
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
31272 ms (53%)
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Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
1307 ms (14%)
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Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 1329     avg: 1595     median: 1594.5 (15%)     max: 1860 ms
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile CPU Tests
11087 Points (1%)
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Reviews for the Apple A5x processor

Apple iPad 3. Gen 2012-03 (PowerVR SGX543MP4, 9.70")
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Other CPUs of the series

» HiSilicon Kirin 9000
   8x 2.05 GHz - 3.13 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G
   8x - 2.86 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 990
   8x - 2.86 GHz
» MediaTek Dimensity 1000+
   8x 2 GHz - 2.6 GHz
» MediaTek Dimensity 820
   8x 2 GHz - 2.6 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 820
   8x 1.84 GHz - 2.36 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 810
   8x 1.88 GHz - 2.27 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 980
   8x - 2.6 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 970
   8x 2.4 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 960
   8x 2.4 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 960s
   8x 2.1 GHz
» Apple A9X
   2x 2.26 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 955
   8x 2.5 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 950
   8x 2.3 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 710
   8x 2.2 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 710A
   8x 2 GHz
» Apple A9
   2x 1.8 GHz
» Samsung Exynos 850
   8x - 2 GHz
» Apple A8X
   3x 1.5 GHz
» Apple A8
   2x 1.4 GHz
» UNISOC SC9863A
   8x 1.6 GHz
» VIA Nano QuadCore L4700
   4x 1.2 GHz - 1.46 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 925
   8x 1.8 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 920
   8x 1.7 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 935
   8x 2.2 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 659
   8x 2.36 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 658
   8x 2.35 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 655
   8x 2.1 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 650
   8x 2 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 930
   8x 2 GHz
» Apple A7
   2x 1.3 GHz
» MediaTek MT8168
   4x 2 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 620
   8x 1.2 GHz
» Rockchip RK3288
   4x 1.8 GHz
» MediaTek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz
   4x 1.5 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 910T
   4x 1.8 GHz
» MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz
   4x 1.3 GHz
» MediaTek MT8161
   4x 1.3 GHz
» Rockchip RK3188
   4x 1.8 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 910
   4x 1.6 GHz
» Intel Celeron 220
   1x 1.2 GHz
» AMD GX-210JA
   2x 1 GHz
» Marvell Armada PXA1908
   4x 1.2 GHz
» Apple S6
   2x
» Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100+
   4x - 1.7 GHz
» Apple A6x
   2x 1.4 GHz
» Apple A6
   2x 1 GHz
» Apple S5
   2x
» Marvell PXA1088
   4x 1.2 GHz
» Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100
   4x - 1.2 GHz
» Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100
   4x - 1.2 GHz
» Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz
   1x 2.8 GHz
» Texas Instruments OMAP 4470
   2x 1.5 GHz
» HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620
   4x 1.2 GHz
» Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz
   2x 1.5 GHz
» Renesas MP5232
   2x 1.5 GHz
» Broadcom BCM21664T
   2x 1.2 GHz
» Marvell PXA986
   2x 1.2 GHz
» Amlogic AML8726-MX
   2x 1.5 GHz
» Texas Instruments OMAP 4460
   2x 1.2 GHz
» Rockchip RK3168
   2x 1.2 GHz
» Broadcom BCM28155
   2x 1.2 GHz
» Texas Instruments OMAP 4430
   2x 1 GHz
» Apple A5x
   2x 1 GHz
» Apple A5
   2x 1 GHz
» Samsung Exynos 9110
   2x 1.15 GHz
» ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500
   2x 1 GHz
» ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8420
   2x 1 GHz
» NXP i.MX 6SLL
   1x 1 GHz
» Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz
   1x 1.2 GHz
» AllWinner A10
   1x 1.2 GHz
» ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz
   1x 1.2 GHz
» Apple A4
   1x 1 GHz
» AllWinner A13
   1x 1 GHz
» WonderMedia PRIZM WM8950
   1x 1 GHz
» Texas Instruments OMAP 3630 1GHz
   1x 1 GHz
» Texas Instruments OMAP 3622
   1x 1 GHz
» Rockchip RK2918
   1x 1 GHz
» Telechips TCC8803 1GHz
   1x 1 GHz
» ZiiLABS ZMS-08
   1x 1 GHz
» ARM Cortex A8 1GHz
   1x 1 GHz
» Actions ACT-ATM7029
   4x 1 GHz
» Loongson 2F 900MHz
   1x 0.9 GHz
» CSR8670
   2x 0.08 GHz
» Huawei Kirin A1
   1x 0.2 GHz
» Cypress PSoC6 MCU
   2x 0.15 GHz
» DK3.5+ST
   2x
» unknown
   

Surrounding CPUs

+ MediaTek MT8377
   2x 1.2 GHz
+ Broadcom BCM28155
   2x 1.2 GHz
+ MediaTek MT6572
   2x 1.2 GHz
+ Spreadtrum SC8830
   4x 1.2 GHz
» Apple A5x
   2x 1 GHz
- Intel Atom Z2420
   1x 1.2 GHz
- Apple A5
   2x 1 GHz
- Nvidia Tegra 2 (250)
   2x 1 GHz
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8210
   2x 1.2 GHz
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2013-07-22)