iPhone 7 is officially faster than the iPad Pro
Just how fast is the iPhone 7 brand new A10 Fusion processor? According to a recent benchmark conducted by Geekbench, the newly unveiled, water-resistant handset is the fastest iOS device to date, and that includes the latest 12.9 inch, and 9.7 inch iPad Pro.
The Geekbench score assigned to the A10 fusion, for single-core performance, is 3233, while the multi-core test scored the brand new Apple mobile CPU a whopping 5363. Compared to the iPhone 6 1562 single-core and 2504 multicore performance,, the A10 Fusion is practically three times as fast. With that said, how does the 12.9 inch iPad Pro fares against the latest iPhone? Also according to Geekbench, the 2015 tablet running on an A9X CPU scored 3110 for single-core performance, and 4889 in the multi-core test.
While there are obvious fundamental differences between the iPhone and the iPad, especially in regard to the different usage, future iPad Pro models running an A10 Fusion could see a considerable performance increase in respect to current ones.
Apple has made some notable strides in the way it designs chips, with the A10 Fusion being the first quad-core SoC (system-on-chip). The four cores integrated into the A10 Fusion are paired in two groups, the first, more powerful and power-hungry, for more intensive applications, and a second pair of cores, more energy efficient, for lightweight tasks.
The Apple A10 Fusion CPU is manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), using a 16nm FinFET process, on a 125 square millimeter wafer. The built-in memory of the A10 features four Samsung LPDDR4 RAM chips.
The A10 clock speed is 2.23GHz, and according to MacRumors, it may also be underclocked, as word has it that the chip is actually capable of speeds up to 2.45GHz.
The 2+2 core architecture of the A10 Fusion chip allows the iPhone 7 to be not only more powerful than any other mobile device made by Apple, but also more energy efficient.
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