Apple A5 vs Apple A10 Fusion. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Apple A series Apple A series
• CPU group
  Apple A5/A5X Apple A10/A10X
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  5 10
• Predecessor
  -- Apple A9
• Successor
  Apple A6 Apple A11 Bionic

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Frequency
  1.00 GHz 1.30 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.34 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  PowerVR SGX543MP2 (2 Cores) Apple A10
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 0.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  4 6
• Shader
  32 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 4 GB
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Generation
  7
• Technology
  32 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q3/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A10 Fusion and Apple A5. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR2-800 LPDDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  1 GB 3 GB
• Memory channels
  2 1
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A5 and Apple A10 Fusion to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A5 and Apple A5, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  A5 A10
• Technology
  32 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2011 Q3/2016
• Part Number
  APL 0498 --