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Apple's A5X SoC: Quad-Core Graphics
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 7, 2012 1:25 PM EST- Posted in
- Apple
- iPad
- Mobile
- Tablets
- Trade Shows
Apple just confirmed the new iPad uses an Apple A5X SoC. Its main improvement? What Apple is calling quad-core graphics. Our guess? Dual-core Cortex A9 plus a PowerVR SGX543MP4, an upgrade over the 543MP2 used in the iPad 2. Clock speeds are still unknown, however Apple is claiming 2x the performance over the iPad 2 implying equal GPU clocks.
It's also very interesting that Apple used NVIDIA as a baseline for GPU performance comparison, boasting 4x the performance of the Tegra 3.
Gallery: Apple's A5X SoC: Quad-Core Graphics