IPhone 5S Equivalent Processor Desktop PC

When introducing the iPhone 5S in September last year , Apple claims that the A7 processor is embedded in the smart phone has the architecture " class desktop processor " .

The claim was not nonsense. As revealed by AnandTech , a pair of core ( core ) CPU named " Cyclone " that drive the A7 is indeed more like a complex than a desktop processor core mobile processor from Qualcomm Krait wide .

Cyclone is the core ARMv8 - A 64 - bit design which is the successor to Apple's previous generation , " Swift " , which is used in the A6 chip .

" Apple does not make the competition Krait / Silvermont , but rather something much closer to a larger core processor ( desktop ) Intel , " Anand wrote in his report .

Slide presentation at the time of the introduction of the Apple iPhone 5S A7 chip contains a claim about
Technical explanations to support the statement also described , such as the number of re -order buffer entries , amounting to as much as 192 to belong to the same series of Intel's Haswell processor .

Cyclone is also capable of working six instructions in a single clock cycle , two times more than the Krait are limited to three instructions simultaneously . There is also a number of Floating Point Units are two times larger than the previous generation cores , Swift , as well as the cache level 3 ( L3 ) of 4MB that is not found in the A6 .

All that leads to a large computational performance , but the power usage is relatively small because the A7 is not running at high frequencies .

On the iPhone 5S , performance Cyclone used to enter low power mode as soon as possible ( race - to- sleep ) . Although the store is great potential , AnandTech adding that the memory capacity of 1GB iPhone 5S bit much melimitasi the processor performance . IOS app also no one has been able to harness the A7 processor .

Then , to what Apple uses the processor at the moment gadgetnya ? Perhaps the company that called AnandTech " think ahead " was about to increase the ability of the gadgets in complicated tasks commonly handled desktop computer .

Perhaps also , Apple is planning to move homemade ARM-based mobile processor to the desktop product line , kind of MacBook laptops , such as Intel's first processor replaces the PowerPC .