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Rockchip RK3188 vs Apple S6 vs Apple S7

Rockchip RK3188

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The Rockchip RK3188 is a fast ARM SoC primarily designed for tablets. It integrates four ARM Cortex A9 cores with NEON extension and a clock speed of up to 1.8 GHz, a Mali-400 MP4 graphics card (up to 600 MHz, 24 GFLOPS) and a low-power (LP-)DDR2/DDR3 memory controller. Due to the high clock rates, the performance of the CPU and GPU is superior to other Cortex-A9 quad-cores such as the Nvidia Tegra 3 and Samsung Exynos 4412. These high frequencies are possible due to the 28nm process (TSMC). However, this results in high power consumption and is thus not suited for compact smartphones.

Apple S6

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The Apple S6 is a 64-Bit dual core processor for the Apple Watch Series 6 (40 and 44mm). It integrates a GPU, 32 GB flash memory, Bluetooth 5.0, 1 GB RAM, 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi and satellite positioning (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS). According to Apple the SiP has two CPU cores based on the Apple A13 and offers 20% more performance than the old Apple S5 in the Watch Series 5.

Apple S7

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The Apple S7 is a 64-Bit dual core processor for the Apple Watch Series 7. It integrates a GPU, 32 GB flash memory, Bluetooth 5.0, 1 GB RAM, 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi and satellite positioning (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS). According to Apple the SiP has two CPU cores based on the Apple A13 and offers 20% more performance than the old Apple S5 in the Watch Series 5. It looks like the S7 is technically identical with the Apple S6 (sama model number of t8301).

ModelRockchip RK3188Apple S6Apple S7
Series Apple Apple
CodenameCortex-A9ThunderThunder
Series: Thunder
HiSilicon Kirin 910T1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
Rockchip RK3188 « 1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
HiSilicon Kirin 9101.6 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
Renesas MP52321.5 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
Broadcom BCM21664T1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
Marvell PXA9861.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
NXP i.MX 6SLL1 GHz1 / 1 cores Cortex-A9
WonderMedia PRIZM WM89501 GHz1 / 1 cores Cortex-A9
Apple S9 SiP1.8 GHz2 / 2 cores Thunder
Apple S81.8 GHz2 / 2 cores Thunder
Apple S71.8 GHz2 / 2 cores
Apple S6 « 1.8 GHz2 / 2 cores
Apple S9 SiP1.8 GHz2 / 2 cores Thunder
Apple S81.8 GHz2 / 2 cores Thunder
Apple S7 « 1.8 GHz2 / 2 cores
Apple S61.8 GHz2 / 2 cores
Clock1800 MHz1800 MHz1800 MHz
Cores / Threads4 / 42 / 22 / 2
Technology28 nm
FeaturesMali-400 MP4 (600 MHz), DDR2/DDR3 Memory Controller (max. 2 GByte)
iGPUARM Mali-400 MP4 (600 MHz)
ArchitectureARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.rock-chips.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 5828     avg: 7773     median: 7936 (6%)     max: 8887 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 5434     avg: 7724     median: 8025.5 (7%)     max: 8812 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 9142     avg: 9821     median: 9821 (8%)     max: 10500 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 1316     avg: 1410     median: 1421 (3%)     max: 1493 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 476     avg: 498.7     median: 504 (10%)     max: 516 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 182     avg: 320     median: 272 (2%)     max: 506 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 326     avg: 687     median: 803 (7%)     max: 933 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 1769     avg: 2044     median: 2035 (4%)     max: 2328 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 924     avg: 1123     median: 1104 (2%)     max: 1341 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 1130     avg: 1275     median: 1182 (3%)     max: 1512 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 130     avg: 131.1     median: 131.1 (4%)     max: 132.1 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 54.9     avg: 57.2     median: 57.2 (6%)     max: 59.4 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
1 RK3188 +
13698 ms (16%)
0%
1 S7 +
85527 ms (100%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 849     avg: 1179     median: 1240 (14%)     max: 1388 ms
93%
S6 +
1807 ms (20%)
93%
S7 +
1785 ms (20%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 702     avg: 986     median: 1086 (10%)     max: 1170 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 3092     avg: 3094     median: 3093.5 (3%)     max: 3095 Points
26%
1 S7 +
810 Points (1%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
5287 points (12%)
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 7505     avg: 7723     median: 7807 (51%)     max: 7856 Points
AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 2139     avg: 14154     median: 19571 (46%)     max: 20752 Points
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 179     avg: 329     median: 374 (11%)     max: 434 Iter./s
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 10329     avg: 11213     median: 11588 (38%)     max: 11722 Iter./s
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 9258     avg: 10743     median: 10965 (1%)     max: 11782 Points

Average Benchmarks Rockchip RK3188 → 100% n=1

Average Benchmarks Apple S6 → 93% n=1

Average Benchmarks Apple S7 → 93% n=1

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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