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Apple A4 vs Intel Atom Z550

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
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Multi-core performance
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At a glance

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Apple A4Intel Atom Z550
FamilyApple A series (27)Intel Atom (108)
CPU groupApple A4 (1)Intel Atom Z500 (1)
ArchitectureA4Silverthorne
Technology45 nm45 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletNotebook
SocketBGA 441
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A4Intel Atom Z550
CPU Cores / Threads1 / 11 / 1
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 1x Cortex-A8 1x
Frequency: 0.80 GHz 2.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 1.00 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache0.51 MB0.50 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A4Intel Atom Z550
GPU namePowerVR SGX535no iGPU
GPU frequency
CUs / Shader2 / 2 /
Raytracing
Max. displays1
Max. GPU Memory
Technology65nm
Release dateQ4/2007

NPU AI performance

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Apple A4Intel Atom Z550
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A4Intel Atom Z550
MemoryLPDDR2-800
Max. Memory2 GB
Memory channels10
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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TDP2.4 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.90 °C

Technical details

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Apple A4Intel Atom Z550
Chip designChipletMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOS
Instruction setArmv7-A (32 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3
Release dateQ2/2010Q2/2009
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A4
Apple A4
1C / 1T · 0.80 - 1.00 GHz
Intel Atom Z550
Intel Atom Z550
1C / 1T · 2.00 GHz

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