Processor Apple A7, specifications and benchmarks

• CPU group
  Apple A7
• Family
  Apple A series
• Generation
  7
• Name
  Apple A7
• Predecessor
  —
• Segment
  Mobile
• Successor
  Apple A8

• A-Core
  2x Cyclone
• B-Core
  —
• Base Frequency
  1.3 GHz
• C-Core
  —
• Core architecture
  normal
• CPU Cores
  2
• CPU Threads
  2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No
• Overclocking
  No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  1.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  1.4 GHz

• DirectX Version
  10
• Execution units
  4
• Generation
  —
• GPU Frequency
  450 MHz
• GPU name
  PowerVR G6430
• GPU Turbo
  450 MHz
• Max. displays
  1
• Max. GPU Memory
  —
• Release date
  Q3/2013
• Shader
  64
• Technology
  28 nm

• AV1
  No
• H.264 / AVC
  No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No
• JPEG
  No
• VC-1
  No
• VP8
  No
• VP9
  No

• ECC
  No
• Max. Memory
  1 GB
• Memory channels
  1
• Memory type
  LPDDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  —
• PCIe version
  —

• AES-NI
  No

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  —
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  —
• TDP (PL2)
  —
• TDP down
  —
• TDP up
  —

• Architecture
  A7
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  —
• L2-Cache
  1 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB
• Part Number
  S5L8960X
• Release date
  Q3/2013
• Socket
  —
• Technology
  28 nm
• Virtualization
  None

Common positions Apple A7 CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

• Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
  1187 place
• Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
  1232 place
• iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
  1452 place