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high3r

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Jul 23, 2015
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Surely it must be... I know Apple are incredible at designing SOC's but one extra core is improving the Geekbench score by almost 4000 itself!? Seems a bit too good to be true. Suppose the slight clock speed boost helps a bit. I really want it to be real tho!

The L2 cache is now 8mb, up from the 3mb in A10. That alone can mean a solid performance boost.
 
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defferoo

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Jul 29, 2010
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Surely it must be... I know Apple are incredible at designing SOC's but one extra core is improving the Geekbench score by almost 4000 itself!? Seems a bit too good to be true. Suppose the slight clock speed boost helps a bit. I really want it to be real tho!
actually, this is pretty much what I expected. given that there are 3 cores now, that 9000 multi-core score isn't too far off. And 3800 bump from 3000 is about the 30% bump in single-core performance that Apple said they got compared to A9X.

Apple made a beast of a CPU. again.
 

Sparky2012

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Jul 16, 2012
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actually, this is pretty much what I expected. given that there are 3 cores now, that 9000 multi-core score isn't too far off. And 3800 bump from 3000 is about the 30% bump in single-core performance that Apple said they got compared to A9X.

Apple made a beast of a CPU. again.

Since posting, there has been more Geekbench results coming out proving it's legit. This is amazing.

You're right, Apple yet again have "made a beast of a CPU" that it's starting to become unfair for the competition :p

I do wonder seeing as they understated their claims for the CPU improvements (could have touted the multi core improvement instead), if the GPU improvements are also understated?
 

frankle

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Oct 20, 2009
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That knocks over my Surface Pro 4 with i5 processor ... and absolutely smokes my 2013 MacBook Air 11" 1.3GHz i5 ...

Seriously considering getting a 12.9", but going to borrow a friends original one for a few days to see if it slots into the way I work.
 
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