Apple's A6 iPhone 5 SoC Integrates Triple-Core GPU
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Slowly but surely, there is more information about Apple's A6 SoC trickling down the pipe.
After an analysis and high-resolution diffusion images taken of the A6 die, UBM Insights believes that the chip is being manufactured by Samsung in a 28 nm process. AnandTech further showed an image that suggests that Apple is using three PowerVR SGX 543MP3 GPU cores at 266 MHz. There was no information whether the ARM cores are based on ARM's Cortex-A15 or the previous Cortex-A9. However, Apple promised twice the performance of the preceding A5, which is a hint that the switch to the A15 has been made.
UBM Insights said that the A6 die has an area size of 95.04 mm2, down from 162.54 mm2 of the Apple A5X, and down from 122.21 mm2 of the A5.
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Meanwhile, android manufacturers continue to use those crappy tegra chips and snapdragons.
I got a nexus 7 and the tegra 3 performance is not as good as it was marketed to be.
My next android device will not have anything slower than the mali400 in the exynos quad SoC.
That's because Tegra was/is an over-hyped over-marketed platform. It's okay, but what it has in core-count it lacks in deployment (or rather, it lacks in the ability to do what you'd expect from the raw specs and hype from it).
To be fair, core count and core speed don't matter--just like in desktop graphics cards. But I agree spot-on, it's the poor implementation of a hardware platform that ruins it.
The thing I love about android is also the thing I hate--its openness of hardware platforms/diversity. Unless you're using one of the few big handset makers (and as such, pay the premium for the device), you're mostly SOL when it comes to your device playing well with others...
I am so happy your ok.
I saw Jane McEntegart doing Apple articles and thought you mite be Ill.
Luv your take on Apple articles...they always make me laugh.
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Apple get a hold on reality
I wish no aluminum in my phone, unless it serves a useful purpose. Leave aluminium for coke cans. Give me a plastic that will not dent or chip when dropped... iCrap uses aluminum to entice its moronic herd of zombies who think not of a material and its functions.
lol you are too funny, if you really think that google's OS is all that open, you might want to think again....
IPC, my friend, IPC. Look it up. Even Engadget's tests yielded benchmark results. The iPhone 5 bested the Galaxy S3 by 50% in the SunSpider bench. Stream processors are not cores, and MHz isn't the sole determination of speed. Learn these lessons well, the industry learned the hard way.
The old iPhone 4S case is almost as heavy as the entire iPhone 5. That's what Aluminium can do for a case. And it is 100% recyclable.
google's OS code is as about as good as the code that AMD has for their graphics hardware, lol....sad but true...maybe all the raw power is wasted because of all the crap-ware running in the background...google really needs to demand that the wireless carries to stop installing all the useless apps...
what? I have no clue what you are talking about. But if you don't think it's an improvement, then just look up the benchmarks!! Dont't take my word for it, just look it up. iPhone 5 is fast
Reading comprehension fail, I never said that google's OS is open, only the hardware platforms (which is the problem). It's old news that google's "open" Android OS isn't freely open (only within google's set of usage rules).