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Apple A6 vs Apple A18
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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Apple A6 | Apple A18 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | Apple A series (27) |
| CPU group | Apple A6/A6X (2) | Apple A18 (2) |
| Architecture | A6 | Donan |
| Technology | 32 nm | 3 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Smartphone / Tablet |
| Socket | ||
| Predecessor | Apple A5 | Apple A16 Bionic |
| Successor | Apple A7 | Apple A19 |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Apple A6 | Apple A18 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 2 / 2 | 6 / 6 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Swift 1.30 GHz |
2x Donan P-Core 0.70 - 4.04 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Donan E-Core 0.74 - 2.30 GHz |
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| L2-Cache | 1.00 MB | 20.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 24.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Apple A6 | Apple A18 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | PowerVR SGX543MP3 (3 Cores) | Apple A18 (5 GPU Cores) |
| GPU frequency | 0.27 GHz | 0.39 - 1.68 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 6 / 48 | 20 / 640 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 1 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 8 GB | |
| Technology | 32 nm | 3 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2012 | Q3/2024 |
NPU AI performance
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Apple A6 | Apple A18 |
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| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Apple A6 | Apple A18 |
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| Memory | LPDDR2-1066 (8.5 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-7500 (60.0 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 1 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 1 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | ||
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
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Apple A6 | Apple A18 |
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| TDP | 12 W | |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. |
Technical details
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Apple A6 | Apple A18 |
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| Chip design | Chiplet | Chiplet |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✗ |
| Operating systems | iOS | iOS |
| Instruction set | Armv7-A (32 bit) | Armv9-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | ||
| Release date | Q3/2012 | Q3/2024 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
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