A look inside the new proprietary Apple A6 chipset

26 September, 2012
The new chip powering the iPhone 5 shows a unique triple GPU core layout beside the dual-core processor.

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  • Anonymous
  • m77
  • 26 Sep 2012

Ordered mine yesterday.

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    • Azzuan
    • ibm
    • 26 Sep 2012

    Maybe thats a great recipe if Apple planning to bring out iPhone 6 in 10 years time. XBOX 360 have 3 GPU and he stays and having new games for almost ten years now..

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      • Lolz
      • Sgv
      • 26 Sep 2012

      Anonymous, 26 Sep 2012Nope! http://www.extremetech.com/computing/136291-iphone... moreQuad vs dual (clocked at 1.2 only) you're talking about and quad wins by little margin - imo quad fail badly this one. Expectations were much higher..

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        • Anonymous
        • v0X
        • 26 Sep 2012

        abc, 26 Sep 2012don't settle for cheap aluminiumit's not about the chip that makes iphone 5 two times faster than the iphone4s, its the iScratch. i think the next iphone will be iphone5s(s stands for scratchles) :)

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          • iSJ5
          • t7X
          • 26 Sep 2012

          iphone 5: the most amazing smartphone yet!

          IPhone 4S: the most amazing iphone yet!

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            • pFj
            • 26 Sep 2012

            impressive performance benchmarked.....FAIL

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              • AnonD-73375
              • 8yU
              • 26 Sep 2012

              Anonymous, 26 Sep 2012I agree Apple have a flowless work effort!I know right? Flaking paint on phones out of the box, dysfunctional antennas, extremely poor battery life. 2012, 2011 and 2010, 3 years in a row.


              Yea, flawless work effort. Reality hasn't sunk in for you yet.

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                • usman
                • u1v
                • 26 Sep 2012

                you guyz are like a day late on every news... do you just copy paste and change some words to fool us??

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                  • AnonD-4814
                  • tA$
                  • 26 Sep 2012

                  Apple fans said 'S3 has a cheap plastic and fake brush metal'. Now see, after all the issues, which phone has cheaper build? Guess you know the answer guys

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                    • antiVad
                    • 3pb
                    • 26 Sep 2012

                    AnonD-58644, 26 Sep 2012Iphone is a waste of money :) it's expensive and has bad co... moreFirst I own a quad core s3, and would never buy apple.

                    But poor cost/ performance can't be three label for the a6. It is an efficient and powerful design. Can be more compared to samsungs up coming exynos 5250 in terms of performance. Though I think Samsung are looking to clock that chip at 2ghz in stead of 1.2ghz (a6).

                    The a6 is surpassing the performance of many quad core androids due to it's efficiency and high bandwidth memory interface.

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                      • andrei
                      • Mfx
                      • 26 Sep 2012

                      how smart you give some ... difference between ios and android is like putting a 100 hp engine on a car a ton (that's if ios) and the same 100 hp engine but on a car 3-4 tons (for android's) ... in other words ... you have to be really unconscious to say that machine 3-4 tons 100 hp engine runs faster than the same engine 100 hp but with a ton ...

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                        • Anonymous
                        • xii
                        • 26 Sep 2012

                        Anonymous, 26 Sep 2012Nope! http://www.extremetech.com/computing/136291-iphone... morethe difference is impressive for dual core phone which is better on battery life

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                          • botsok3skelion
                          • t7J
                          • 26 Sep 2012

                          AnonD-58644, 26 Sep 2012Iphone is a waste of money :) it's expensive and has bad co... moreKeep your Opinion to yourself if you dont have the money to buy any apple devices!

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                            • KiZ
                            • 26 Sep 2012

                            AnonD-8044, 26 Sep 2012You do care.. Thats good to see but just wait for all th... moreDo you know why android users obssesed about his/her phone spec? Because its very lag and crash anytime?, even quadcore still lag. How about dualcores? FREZEEEE...LOL

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                              • abc
                              • uv%
                              • 26 Sep 2012

                              don't settle for cheap aluminium

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                                • Anonymous
                                • M3s
                                • 26 Sep 2012

                                Viraj, 26 Sep 2012thats the flowless work done by apple, no more hungry quad ... moreI agree Apple have a flowless work effort!

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                                  • AnonD-58644
                                  • n2j
                                  • 26 Sep 2012

                                  Viraj, 26 Sep 2012thats the flowless work done by apple, no more hungry quad ... moreIphone is a waste of money :) it's expensive and has bad cost/performance. Android powered quad cores rock!

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                                    • rKI
                                    • 26 Sep 2012

                                    Well done Apple!!! :)

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                                      • vV5
                                      • 26 Sep 2012

                                      Matthew, 26 Sep 2012Ok processor is well made, but rest is very poor. Battery i... moreIt's better compare to iPhone 4S because it can keep up with the 4S on 4G LTE.

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                                        • Viraj
                                        • uvd
                                        • 26 Sep 2012

                                        thats the flowless work done by apple, no more hungry quad core they only eating battery and west of money