Comparing Apple A5 vs Apple A5

description_compare Apple A5 and Apple A4

• Name
  Apple A5 Apple A4
• Family
  Apple A series Apple A series
• CPU group
  Apple A5/A5X Apple A4
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  5 4
• Successor
  Apple A6 --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• CPU Cores / Threads
  2 / 2 1 / 1
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  2x Cortex-A9 1x Cortex-A8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  1.00 GHz 0.80 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  -- 1.00 GHz

• GPU name
  PowerVR SGX543MP2 (2 Cores) PowerVR SGX535
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  4 2
• Shader
  32 2
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Direct X
  10 10.1
• Technology
  32 nm 65nm
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q4/2007

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

• Memory type
  LPDDR2-800 LPDDR2-800
• Max. Memory
  1 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 1 (Single Channel)
• Bandwidth
  6.4 GB/s --
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

• Technology
  32 nm 45 nm
• Chip design
  Chiplet Chiplet
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB 0.51 MB
• Architecture
  A5 A4
• Operating systems
  iOS iOS
• Virtualization
  None None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) ARMv7-A32 (32 bit)
• Release date
  Q1/2011 Q2/2010
• Part Number
  APL 0498 --