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Apple A9X Geekbench

Interesting, All the rumors pointed to it being a quad core design I think, and last years iPad Air 2 is tri-core.

Although 4GB of ram seems confirmed so I don't know if it's a fake bench, or a error in GB reporting the correct number..

30% faster single core score with only 16% faster clock speed... Interesting if true.
 
asendra said:
Interesting, All the rumors pointed to it being a quad core design I think, and last years iPad Air 2 is tri-core.

Although 4GB of ram seems confirmed so I don't know if it's a fake bench, or a error in GB reporting the correct number..

30% faster single core score with only 16% faster clock speed... Interesting if true.
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Doesn't Geekbench love bandwidth? Maybe that's a reason.
I was expecting at least a tri-core, maybe it was too ambitious or they need some room for a future A10X.
 
Very interesting to see a dual core design. Guess the tri core experience wasn't good enough for Apple. hence killing any wishes for quad.
 
Sweepr said:
Doesn't Geekbench love bandwidth? Maybe that's a reason.
I was expecting at least a tri-core, maybe it was too ambitious or they need some room for a future A10X.
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I think the tri-core was Apple's only recourse for A8X given that it probably couldn't get high clocks at good power consumption on the 20nm process.

With good finFET processes in hand, Apple has returned to trying to maximize single-threaded performance and keeping core count at two.
 
ShintaiDK said:
Very interesting to see a dual core design. Guess the tri core experience wasn't good enough for Apple. hence killing any wishes for quad.
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There is a poster here, raghu78, who basically was predicting that the A9X would force Intel to increase its core count in Y/U series processors.

It's pretty clear that Intel had the right idea with its low power processors: two cores that run as quickly as possible.
 
Arachnotronic said:
I think the tri-core was Apple's only recourse for A8X given that it probably couldn't get high clocks at good power consumption on the 20nm process.

With good finFET processes in hand, Apple has returned to trying to maximize single-threaded performance and keeping core count at two.
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I guess the up to 1.8x faster refers exclusively to ST performance then, not both (ST & MT) like some people assumed. MT performance is up by less than than 20%.
Bandwidth should partially explain the better than perfect clock-per-clock scaling between A9 and A9X.

So Apple is going dual-core (no SMT?), Intel is sticking to dual-cores with SMT and Qualcomm opted for 2+2 cores (2 high-clocked and 2 low-clocked Kryo cores). I bet Samsung is also ditching the 4+4 approach with their Moongose Exynos. Fewer faster cores are dominating premium mobile devices.

Exophase said:
Comparison with 2C4T 2.4GHz Skylake: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/4048472?baseline=4149721

Single thread performance is highly competitive.
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One of the worst 6200U scores out there. Try this (only Windows 64-bit score by the way):
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/3017270
 
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Also, the mobile space really stays quite entertaining.

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And many people thought iPad Air was fast at the time, merely 2 yrs ago!

RIP Intel IGP devision
 
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Nothingness said:
There's a discrepancy against what AT says: the GB entry claims 2.16 GHz while Joshua says it's 2.26 GHz. My understanding is that GB on iOS reported frequency always is accurate.
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Can't explain it, but the results themselves are legit and representative of A9X performance.
 
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