Hey y'all, I've seen quite a few leaks for the A9 and I feel more confused than ever. There were a couple of leaked Geekbench 3 scores that had the A9 pegged as a tri-core 1.5Ghz scoring 1821 single core and 4,577 multi. Essentially the A8X with 2GB's of ram. Another one has the A9 at 2.0Ghz and only 1 GB of ram which seems fake to me. The final one has it listed as a dual core with scores posting 2,030 for single core and 3,500 multi. Any idea what to think at this point? I would be WAY excited if this article comes to fruition! That would be iPad Air 2 performance on steroids! Thanks.
We won't really know until the phone is out and actual benchmarks across multiple platforms are performed. There are always fake leaks every year, and every year some of them are wildly inaccurate.
We can only use past "S" updates, based off history, and guess that this one will bring a similar big performance boost
(in the past with "S" models, internals were upgraded significantly: 3GS was 2x as fast as 3G, had 2X RAM, significantly better GPU ; 4S had a 7x more powerful GPU (!) than 4/3GS, dual core CPU architecture and 2x as fast as 4 ; 5s brought 64 bit architecture, co-motion processor, ~2-2.5x CPU & GPU (depending on benchmark) over 5/5c)
The hope is the 6s will be a similar large bump, though that remains to be seen. Until then, best to treat all of these "leaks" as speculation. Some may be more valid vs others; as you noted there is doubt an Apple smartphone would be clocked @ a 2.0GHz processor and that "leak" is likely fake. If these benchmarks in this thread's link are accurate or true, then they point to a large processor upgrade. But still best to treat it as speculation until confirmed
