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Apple A9X

Apple A9X

The Apple A9X is a high-end ARM SoC (System on a Chip) that was announced in September 2015 in the iPad Pro. Technical details are scarce, what we know is that it is based on the third generation of Apples 64 Bit architecture (Cyclone 3) and manufactured with a "new transistor technology" (14 or 16nm FINFet probably).

The performance of the A9X did improve a lot according to Apple. The CPU part should be 1.8x faster and the GPU part even 2x faster than the already speedy Apple A8X. Apple even stated in the keynote of the iPad Pro that the performance should be "faster than 80% of portable PCs shipped in the last 12 month". Furthermore the iPad Pro now features a 2x higher memory bandwidth (DDR4?) and 2x faster storage performance. The integrated graphics card will most likely be a PowerVR design again (Power VR Series7?).

SeriesApple
CodenameCyclone 3

Series: Cyclone 3

Apple A9X « 2.26 GHz2 / 2 cores Cyclone 3
Apple A9 compare1.8 GHz2 / 2 cores Cyclone 3
Clock Rate2260 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads2 / 2
Manufacturing Technology14/16 nm
Die Size147 mm2
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction Set
GPUApple A9X / PowerVR Series 7XT
64 Bit64 Bit support
ArchitectureARM
Announcement Date09/09/2015

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 15473     avg: 15748     median: 15748 (13%)     max: 16023 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
1713 Points (21%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
1649 Points (23%)
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Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
3097 points (32%)
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Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
5284 points (6%)
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 5268     avg: 5344     median: 5343.5 (8%)     max: 5419 points
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 3079     avg: 3140     median: 3139.5 (47%)     max: 3200 points
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 1550     avg: 1560     median: 1559.5 (53%)     max: 1569 MFLOPS
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
855 MFLOPS (84%)
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 1499     avg: 1523     median: 1522.5 (2%)     max: 1546 ms
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Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
181 ms (2%)
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 19621     avg: 19737     median: 19736.5 (20%)     max: 19852 Points
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WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
101 Points (26%)
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AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 168840     avg: 176593     median: 176593 (60%)     max: 184346 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
7954 Points (24%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
38538 Points (47%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
89250 Points (28%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
81273 Points (50%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
217015 Points (38%)
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 58793     avg: 59226     median: 59226 (8%)     max: 59659 Points
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2015-09-11)