Apple A7 benchmarks

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Apple A7 benchmarks(does very well against Bay Trail)

Its fast:

http://anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/5

I know the OSes are different but it is really doing well against the Z3770,which Intel has just launched for tablets a few days ago!! :surprised:

That is only for the phone version too, just imagine the tablet model??

If this is any indication of the performance of the newer 64 bit ARM cores,we are going to have an interesting 2015!!

 

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It looks like I was the only who was impressed!!

 

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Why should this be moved to an Apple forum??

This is the CPU forum,which deals with CPUs including ARM and MIPS based one.

If this forum cannot be a place to talk about non-X86 CPUs what is the whole point of a CPU forum? You might as well name it an x86 CPU forum if you cannot talk about them. I doubt I will ever buy an iPhone myself, but what the heck has the A7 SOC got to do with whether iPhones are good or not??

Does anyone care if a Core i5 is in a crappy pre-build Ebay PC?? Nope. The CPU forums,at least what I though it was,was a place to talk about CPUs. The A7 is the first 64 bit ARM based SOC and the first of many. It is a preview of what we will be getting from ARM licensees in the next year.

Samsung,Qualcomm,Nvidia and AMD are all releasing them. You know,other companies??

Bay Trail(or Jaguar) and lower end X86 CPUs are now going to start facing stiff competition on both processing power and power consumption from ARM based SOCs,made on commodity process nodes optimised for density. Thats means not just tablets for media consumption and phones are where ARM is going to be relevant,but also more productivity based devices,all in the biggest parts of the market.

Heck,ARM is British company,so at least for many on this forum,it should be kind of nice to see them doing well as a result.

 

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Yea but the A7 is specifically an Apple Hardware I think? Considering there's a dedicated "Apple Hardware" forum, wouldn't it be the more appropriate place to post this?

No. Its significance is that it is the first 64 bit ARM core,and the fact it has great performance and power consumption.

Its a good preview of what Samsung,Qualcomm,Nvidia and AMD are releasing in the next year and multiple devices bought by millions of people are going to be used by them.

It is also means that instead of tablets and phones, the ARM SOCs are starting to have enough power for more powerful devices,in areas where Intel and AMD have traditionally not had much competition.