Apple's chip power consumption ranking is as follows:
1. Up to the A12 on the latest iPhone XS, there have been 9 generations of Apple A-Series processors since the iPhone 4 was first equipped with A4 processor;
2, A4 is a 45nm process ARM Cortex-A8 single-core processor, GPU PowerVR SGX 535, L2 cache is 640KB, at the same frequency performance is better than Samsung S5PC110, but its core structure and previously used Samsung processor is very similar. Only the frequency increases, the core CPU architecture has no change;
3, A5 is the first Apple designed dual-core processor chip, known as the CPU is twice the original iPad, GPU is 9 times the original; It uses the multi-core Cortex-A9 architecture processor coupled with the Powervr SGX543 graphics chip. The A5X is an enhanced version of its performance, with a quad-core graphics processor used in the third-generation iPad and twice the graphics processing power of the iPad 2.
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4. Intrinsity, a subsidiary of Apple, is designed and manufactured by Samsung. Intrinsity has a unique architecture and its performance is between Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A5, based on 32nm process. Ability to dynamically adjust CPU voltage\/frequency characteristics; The GPU integrates a three-core PowerVR SGX 543MP3 graphics processing unit with more than twice the performance of the A5. Like the A5, the A6X is designed for the iPad, the CPU frequency is increased, the GPU is replaced with SGX554MP4, and it has four cores.
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5. A7 adopts a new 64-bit design, using Arm-v8 64-bit instruction set and its own Cyclone architecture; The A7 processor is twice as fast as the A6 on the iPhone 5, 40 times as powerful as the processor used in the original iPhone, and has 56 times the graphics power of the original. In addition, it is equipped with the co-processing chip M7, which is specially responsible for calculating the sensor data of the mobile phone, and can maintain extremely low power consumption;
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6, A8 adopts the most advanced 20nm process manufacturing (TSMC foundry), smaller area, better energy consumption ratio, but also inherited the special M8 motion coprocessor; Compared with the A7, the A8 improves CPU performance by 25% and graphics performance by 50%. The A8X integrates up to 3 billion transistors, between NVIDIA GK104.35 billion and GK1062.5 billion, and uses a three-core design on the CPU, which is 40% higher than the A7, 2GB of memory, and the GPU model is PowerVR GX6850.
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7, the A9 processor has two versions and foundries, 6s is APL0898, the package is Samsung 2GB LPDDR4 RAM manufactured by Samsung, 14nm; The 6s Plus A9 processor model is APL1022, packaged with Hynix 2GB LPDDR4 RAM, manufactured by TSMC, 16nm; The A9 is 130% of the performance of the A8, with a single-core score of 2526 and a multi-core score of 4404. The A9X returns to a dual-core design, with six GPU units for a total of 12 GPU cores and 384 stream processors.
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8, the number on the A10 core is TMGK98, which continues the A9 TMGK96, and the core area is about 125 square millimeters, and the package uses TSMC's latest InFO technology; The A10 Fusion is 120 times more powerful than the first iPhone chip and 40% better than the A9 in the iPhone 6s. It is also the first quad-core processor in the A-series, with two large cores and two small cores. The high-performance core can run up to twice as fast as the iPhone 6, while the energy-efficient core can run with as little as one-fifth the power of the high-performance core.
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9. A11 adopts TSMC's most advanced 10nm process and six-core design, which improves river performance by 25% compared with A10, four small cores by 70% compared with A10, and multi-performance processing by 75%; The GPU equipped is Apple's self-developed three-core GPU, with 30% higher performance than A10, and 50% lower power consumption; First equipped with neural network engine for AR and image recognition;
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10, the A12 processor adopts the latest 7nm process, using Apple's self-developed Fusion architecture, are 2(performance core, performance increased by 15%) 4(energy efficiency core, power performance increased by 50%); The GPU adopts a new generation of self-developed GPU, the core has been upgraded from three cores to four cores, and the official performance has been improved by 50%. The upgrade of the neural network from dual-core to eight-core can achieve 5 trillion calculations; According to Apple's data, the two large cores improve by 15%, and the four small cores improve the power performance by 50%; Using a new generation of self-developed GPU, the number of cores is upgraded to 4 cores, and the performance is improved by 50%.
The following is the data of several Apple chip power rankings for your reference: 1. Apple M1 chip: Apple M1 processor is a new self-developed chip from Apple Inc., which is used in the post-2020 Mac models. The chip is based on a 5-nanometer process, which has the lowest power consumption and the highest efficiency in relative use.
2. A14 Bionic chip: A14 Bionic is a processor introduced by Apple for the iPhone 12 series, which has higher power consumption compared to the M1 chip, but still performs well.
3. A12Z Bionic chip: The A12Z Bionic is the chip Apple is using to launch the 2020 iPad Pro, which is not the latest model, but still has excellent energy efficiency.
Overall, Apple's chips excel in power consumption, with their unique architecture and design, as well as subtle but critical optimizations, helping to achieve more efficient performance and longer battery life.
First place: A16
1, process: Compared with the previous generation upgraded to TSMC 4nm process, the core architecture is exactly the same.
2, core: 23.46Ghz performance core 42.02Ghz energy efficiency core, compared with a15 only increased 0.23Ghz performance core frequency.
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Second place: A15
1, process: continued the previous generation of 5nm process process, using 6 core 6 threads architecture.
2, core: Using 24 core design, including 2 2.32Ghz performance core and 4 2.0Ghz energy efficiency core.
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Third place: A14
1. Process: From 7nm to 5nm, there has been a huge upgrade in performance and power consumption.
2, Core: Continues the 6-core architecture (24), with 2 high-performance cores and 4 low-power cores, plus a 4-core gpu.
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Fourth place: A13
1, process: the same 7nm process as a12, there is no significant improvement in power consumption.
2, core: It is still the design of 6 cpu cores and 4 gpu cores, with 8 neural cores.