Wow if you sort the list by multicore its the fastest arm based system they have tested, also it looks to be on the heels of some of Intel's laptop chips. Maybe in a year or 2 it will pass allot of these... Pretty dam impressive (esp given its clock speed)
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iPad iPad Air 2 has 2 GB RAM and a three core A8x processor
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Wow if you sort the list by multicore its the fastest arm based system they have tested, also it looks to be on the heels of some of Intel's laptop chips. Maybe in a year or 2 it will pass allot of these... Pretty dam impressive (esp given its clock speed)
I bet we will have the reviews tonight. I'm 90% confident we will get 2 GB on the Air 2 based on my research.
Crazy, it's almost as if Apple under hyped the A8X processor. When does that ever happen with Apple?
That happens a lot. Apple usually under hypes battery life. And analysts continue to under hype Apple stock.
I can't imagine the A9 performance if it goes quad core.
Technically the A Series is the best ARM processor on the market. It proves that the A has less cores and well under clocked and still maintain benchmark leads over Tegra, SnapDragon, and Exynos.
Technically the A Series is the best ARM processor on the market. It proves that the A has less cores and well under clocked and still maintain benchmark leads over Tegra, SnapDragon, and Exynos.
Could add fuel to apple switching from Intel processors to their own for future Macs. Was rumoured, and now the performance is there.
It never was a rumor, it's a matter of when Apple will switch, not if.
We already knew the performance of Apple's ARM chips would eventually get there and match that of Intel's chips. We already knew it was a matter of time until Apple switches from Intel chips to its in-house ARM chips. It is much, much cheaper for Apple to produce its own chips than to buy Intel's chips. It's not a rumor, it is common sense to begin with.
At present, if anything, Apple competing against Intel will push Intel to develop new chips faster.
Ok, well I guess it won't be long before Apple are putting ARM chips into the new mac pro then, or high end workstations?
Don't say that in the Mac forums because they'll have your head over it.
I think it's a good possibility. Intel charges a boat load for processors and Apple likes to engineer things.
On the developer portal, iPad 5,4 is the cellular iPad Air 2, listed right in the firmware filename.
According to common sense. Intel's x86 processor development is slowing down with the development of the 14nm die size. Apple's processor development is catching up to the bleeding edge with Intel; Apple is taking ARM to the same bleeding edge of development as x86 and will soon be right beside Intel in terms of die size and efficiency.
I heard your girlfriend did. ;-)
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How's that? A 1536x2048 screen buffer only takes up 12 MiB.
That's kind of meaningless, because modern operating systems store as much as possible in memory at all times.