Comparing Apple A5X vs Apple A5X

description_compare Apple A5X and Intel Atom Z2420

• Name
  Apple A5X Intel Atom Z2420
• Family
  Apple A series Intel Atom
• CPU group
  Apple A5/A5X Intel Atom Z2400/Z2600
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  5 3
• Successor
  Apple A6X --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• CPU Cores / Threads
  2 / 2 1 / 2
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  2x Cortex-A9 1x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  1.00 GHz 1.20 GHz

• GPU name
  PowerVR SGX543MP4 (4 Cores) PowerVR SGX540
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8 1
• Shader
  64 0
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Direct X
  10 10.1
• Technology
  45 nm 45nm
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q1/2008

• 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 1 GB
• Memory channels
  4 (Quad Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  12.8 GB/s 6.4 GB/s
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

• TDP (PL1)
  3 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 90 \xc2\xb0C

• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Chip design
  Chiplet Monolithic
• Socket
  N/A BGA 617
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB 0.50 MB
• Architecture
  A5 Penwell
• Operating systems
  iOS
• Virtualization
  None None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, SSE3, SSSE3
• Release date
  Q1/2011 Q1/2013
• Part Number
  APL 5498 --