Apple launched its new iPad Pro family with A10X chipset at the beginning of June. Specifics on the chipset weren't confirmed back then, but we now learn it's built on a 10 nm process line by TSMC.
The A10X’s 10 nm FinFET process by TSMC appears for the first time in a consumer device. Until the WWDC on June 5, Apple's most powerful SoC was the A10, built on the 16 nm FinFET process.
This allowed the size of the chipset to be just 96.4 sq.mm - 24% smaller than the A10 SoC and 34% reduction compared with the A9X. In fact, the A10X is the smallest chipset by Apple, ever.
TechInsights went into even further detail about the architecture of the chip. Apple stated the A10X has 3 Fusion CPU core pairs and the 12 Cluster GPU, also seen in the previous A9X. The 12 GPU clusters are on the left, while the CPU cores are grouped on the right.
A10X | A9X | |
CPU | 3x Fusion (Hurricane + Zephyr) | 2x Twister |
CPU Clockspeed | ~2.36GHz | 2.26GHz |
GPU | 12 Cluster GPU | PVR 12 Cluster Series7 |
RAM | 4GB LPDDR4 | 4GB LPDDR4 |
Manufacturing Process | TSMC 10nm FinFET | TSMC 16nm FinFET |
Beast of the beasts, I wonder when android will catch up, cause there is no single chip which can beat even iPhone 6s in single core, which is kind of embarrasing
The core are bigger because Apple's Ax core are using a ton of cache. You can run an entire program from Apple's cache. However Apple's GPUs are slow. The A9x is rated at 350 gigaflops. The SD 820 is rated at 498 gigaflops. The SD 821 is sl...
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