I openly admit to being ignorant of a few things.
You do not. The word for that is pompous
And BTW I'm typing on my iPhone while riding on a unicycle stoned out of my mind.
Excuse my grammar.
Mr. Touchy
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I openly admit to being ignorant of a few things.
You do not. The word for that is pompous
And BTW I'm typing on my iPhone while riding on a unicycle stoned out of my mind.
Excuse my grammar.
Mr. Touchy
Since the display will be using more power than the previous gen, I'd expect a modest yet substantial upgrade. As in more graphics processing, scaleable power draw, and a slightly higher clock. No use running more cores when the A5 @ 1GHz does fairly impressive work, and multitasking is still not very heavy given the OS design. Ram- yes, 1GB would help, as would a better architecture to access storage. But the A6 has to wait until the display uses less power and the battery gets an internal bump.
I am waiting on a leaked full assembly of all these parts; by the looks of things it looks like that could be any day.
What's in a name? In the case of the A5X who knows. But ARM does make a quad-core A9. So it's not out of the realm of possibility that Apple is sticking w/ the ARM A9 & just going QC. Then save the Apple A6 for the next iPhone.
Agreed. I reckon that this is what'll happen, i.e. dual A15, which is a great thing IMO. Also interesting to note, but first thing I thought when I saw was:
A5X = 5 + X >>> from roman numerals ala Mac OS X...
= 5 +(10)
thus A5X = A15.
More interesting I think is what graphics they're going to use. Are we going to see the 543MP4 quad core varient in this? Apple have put a large priority on graphical capabilities of there iOS devices, surprising regarding the comparisons in their other products (although last years iMacs and MBP's are hopefully an indication of more focus here). iPad and iPhone typically have graphics hardware that is class leading - who'd have thought?
This thing will likely approach graphical capability of the PSVita. Given the resolution of the display this is a great thing, imagine 2D games on that screen.
Let's hope for the best guys! you know Apple an be cruel at times, but hopefully they do know more RAM should be an obvious upgrade.
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Quad-Core Cortex A9. Mark my words. Reasons:
-Apple's AX designations symbolize architecture jumps rather than more cores. So A5X would mean same A9 architecture but X probably meaning quad core variant.
-The recently leaked boot diagnostics screenshot showing 4 cores.
-Quad core support discovered in iOS recently.
-Dual core A15 would outperform quad A9. If they were going dual A15 in the iPad 3, that'd more then justify it being an A6, which as we see here, it isn't.
-It would allow the fourth iPad to bear the name 'A6', Apple always save something good for later. A6 being a Quad core cortex A15, the best of both worlds, (later when they're more available).
-Apple are said to be getting apps together that really show off the iPad 3. Apart from spectacular Infinity Blade 2 graphics which we've seen before, what else can they demo? Possible answer: apps that take advantage of quad core.
That's my theory. Whatever the case, this'll be my first iPad, been waiting long enough. You have to jump into the ever-moving 'spec river' sometime. Yea, it'll be annoying seeing the iPad 4 go Quad A15 probably, but what the hell.
Quad-Core Cortex A9. Mark my words. Reasons:
-Apple's AX designations symbolize architecture jumps rather than more cores. So A5X would mean same A9 architecture but X probably meaning quad core variant.
-The recently leaked boot diagnostics screenshot showing 4 cores.
-Quad core support discovered in iOS recently.
-Dual core A15 would outperform quad A9. If they were going dual A15 in the iPad 3, that'd more then justify it being an A6, which as we see here, it isn't.
-It would allow the fourth iPad to bear the name 'A6', Apple always save something good for later. A6 being a Quad core cortex A15, the best of both worlds, (later when they're more available).
-Apple are said to be getting apps together that really show off the iPad 3. Apart from spectacular Infinity Blade 2 graphics which we've seen before, what else can they demo? Possible answer: apps that take advantage of quad core.
That's my theory. Whatever the case, this'll be my first iPad, been waiting long enough. You have to jump into the ever-moving 'spec river' sometime. Yea, it'll be annoying seeing the iPad 4 go Quad A15 probably, but what the hell.
I also hope it will kick the transformer prime's butt game-wise.
I watched some videos comparing it to the ipad2 and come on...the freeking prime lags sometimes in normal operations...unaccepatable. But the games that were installed were wow... I hope riptide gp will be updated for the ipad3. Then its retina screen with that game will slaughter the prime(i hope).
I guess apple knows what gpu and cpu they have chosen and chose them for reason.
I watched some videos comparing it to the ipad2 and come on...the freeking prime lags sometimes in normal operations...unaccepatable. But the games that were installed were wow... I hope riptide gp will be updated for the ipad3. Then its retina screen with that game will slaughter the prime(i hope).
I guess apple knows what gpu and cpu they have chosen
and chose them for reason.iPad 2S,2X, or 3
iPad 2S/2X/3: 32 nm Samsung A9-dual core at 1.4 GHz; 1GRAM; SGX545MP
(Ref:iPad 2 45 nm Samsung A9-dual core 1GHz; 512MRAM; SGX543MP)
Result: 30-40 % Perf increase; 25% less power/standby 30% less; more RAM for filling display fast enough.
Display and cameras significantly better
A15 not ready till next year; quad A9 too much electrical power, cost, need
Regards
iPad 2S/2X/3: 32 nm Samsung A9-dual core at 1.4 GHz; 1GRAM; SGX545MP
(Ref:iPad 2 45 nm Samsung A9-dual core 1GHz; 512MRAM; SGX543MP)
Result: 30-40 % Perf increase; 25% less power/standby 30% less; more RAM for filling display fast enough.
Display and cameras significantly better
A15 not ready till next year; quad A9 too much electrical power, cost, need
Regards
Pretty much my thoughts when seeing the A5X designation. Simple and logical.
I was also thinking that using the quad core would be more power efficient which would help with the rumored LTE chip.
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Just shut up and take our money apple
Just shut up and take our money apple
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Quad-Core Cortex A9. Mark my words. Reasons:
-Apple's AX designations symbolize architecture jumps rather than more cores. So A5X would mean same A9 architecture but X probably meaning quad core variant.
-The recently leaked boot diagnostics screenshot showing 4 cores.
-Quad core support discovered in iOS recently.
-Dual core A15 would outperform quad A9. If they were going dual A15 in the iPad 3, that'd more then justify it being an A6, which as we see here, it isn't.
-It would allow the fourth iPad to bear the name 'A6', Apple always save something good for later. A6 being a Quad core cortex A15, the best of both worlds, (later when they're more available).
That's my theory. Whatever the case, this'll be my first iPad, been waiting long enough. You have to jump into the ever-moving 'spec river' sometime. Yea, it'll be annoying seeing the iPad 4 go Quad A15 probably, but what the hell.
Well said. Definitely a very logical theory
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So you're basically agreeing with me. Because in my post I mentioned, if not clearly,that the iPad won't get the Cortex A15 architecture this year - hence the A5X moniker, which is a tweak of the current Apple A5 processor.
Again, for the A5X, I see two possible options;
1. faster dual-core Cortex A9 CPU, along with a much beefier dual-core GPU using the PowerVR Rogue GPU architecture
or
2. quad-core CPU / GPU based on the current Cortex A9 CPU / SGX 543MP4 GPU
How would you know?
We've only had 2 iPads so far and both had a different architecture and different number of cores, so we don't know what AX designations stand for.
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Yea I suppose you could argue it means more cores too. A4: single core A8. A5: dual core A9. A5X: the 5 obviously meaning that some aspect will remain the same as the A5, probably architecture. Like I said if A5X was a dual A15, that's basically good enough to call the A6.
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Yea I suppose you could argue it means more cores too. A4: single core A8. A5: dual core A9. A5X: the 5 obviously meaning that some aspect will remain the same as the A5, probably architecture. Like I said if A5X was a dual A15, that's basically good enough to call the A6.
Unless the number doesn't represent the actual performance but what is considered better by the public. For most people, quad-core is necessarily better than dual-core.
Either way, it's hard to come to conclusions just with the "A5X" term, we'll find out soon enough what that really means anyway.
Yep, funnier than watching monkeys play at the zoo. Apple products always fail the "spec police" test. The basement nerds only care about cores and such. They always declare the latest gizmo from Apple as EPIC FAIL. The gizmo sells like crazy and the saga continues.
