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Apple A6X vs AMD A8-5557M
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A6X
21 %
PowerVR SGX554MP4 (4 Cores)
AMD A8-5557M
100 %
AMD Radeon HD 8550G
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Apple A6X | AMD A8-5557M |
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| Family | Apple A series (27) | AMD A (112) |
| CPU group | Apple A6/A6X (2) | AMD A8-5000M (3) |
| Architecture | A6 | Richland (Piledriver) |
| Technology | 32 nm | 32 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Notebook |
| Socket | FP2 | |
| Predecessor | Apple A5X | |
| Successor | Apple A8X |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Apple A6X | AMD A8-5557M |
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| CPU Cores / Threads | 2 / 2 | 4 / 4 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Cores: | 2x Swift | 4x |
| Frequency: | 1.40 GHz | 2.10 GHz |
| Turbo (1 Core): | 3.10 GHz | |
| Turbo (All Cores): | 3.10 GHz | |
| L2-Cache | 1.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 4.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Apple A6X | AMD A8-5557M |
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| GPU name | PowerVR SGX554MP4 (4 Cores) | AMD Radeon HD 8550G |
| GPU frequency | 0.30 GHz | 0.52 - 0.72 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 16 / 128 | 4 / 256 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 2 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 2 GB | |
| Technology | 32 nm | 32 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2012 | Q2/2013 |
NPU AI performance
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Apple A6X | AMD A8-5557M |
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| AI hardware | ||
| AI specifications | ||
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Apple A6X | AMD A8-5557M |
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| Memory | LPDDR2-1066 (17.1 GB/s) | DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 1 GB | |
| Memory channels | 4 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | ||
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
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Apple A6X | AMD A8-5557M |
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| TDP | 35 W | |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. |
Technical details
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Apple A6X | AMD A8-5557M |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Chiplet | Unknown |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | iOS | |
| Instruction set | Armv7-A (32 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 | |
| Release date | Q3/2012 | Q2/2013 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
User Reviews
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Apple M5 Max (18-CPU 32-GPU)
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Apple A6X
2C / 2T · 0.00 GHz
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