Intel Core m3-6Y30 vs Apple A10X Fusion. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Core M Apple A series
• Generation
  6 10
• CPU group
  Intel Core M 6 Apple A10/A10X
• Predecessor
  -- Apple A9X
• Successor
  -- Apple A12Z 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.

• Frequency
  0.90 GHz 1.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.20 GHz 2.38 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 6
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 3x Hurricane
• B core
  -- 3x Zephyr

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
  Intel HD Graphics 515 Apple A10X
• GPU frequency
  0.30 GHz 0.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.85 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  24 12
• Shader
  192 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  16 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  3 1
• Generation
  9 7
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2015 Q2/2017

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A10X Fusion and Intel Core m3-6Y30. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-1866 LPDDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  3 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  10

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core m3-6Y30 and Apple A10X Fusion to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  4.5 W 8 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core m3-6Y30 and Intel Core m3-6Y30, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Skylake Y A10
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1515 N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2015 Q2/2017