Intel Pentium G2030 vs Apple A10X Fusion. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G2000 Apple A10/A10X
• Family
  Intel Pentium Apple A series
• Generation
  3 10
• Predecessor
  - Apple A9X
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Successor
  - Apple A12Z Bionic

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  - 3x Hurricane
• B-Core
  - 3x Zephyr
• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 1.3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  2 6
• CPU Threads
  2 6
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.38 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 2.38 GHz

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

• DirectX Version
  11.0 -
• Execution units
  6 12
• Generation
  7 7
• GPU Frequency
  650 MHz 900 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) Apple A10X
• GPU Turbo
  1000 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 1
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 4 GB
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q2/2017
• Shader
  48 384
• Technology
  22 nm 10 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A10X Fusion and Intel Pentium G2030. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 3 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 LPDDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  16 -
• PCIe version
  2.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium G2030 and Apple A10X Fusion Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  55 W 8 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium G2030 and Apple A10X Fusion, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge S A10
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 -
• L2-Cache
  - 8 MB
• L3-Cache
  3 MB -
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q2/2017
• Socket
  LGA 1155 -
• Technology
  22 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None