Comparing Apple A10 Fusion vs Apple A10 Fusion

description_compare Apple A9 and Apple A10 Fusion

• Name
  Apple A9 Apple A10 Fusion
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple A series Apple A series
• Generation
  9 10
• CPU group
  Apple A9/A9X Apple A10/A10X
• Predecessor
  Apple A8 Apple A9
• Successor
  Apple A10 Fusion Apple A11 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Frequency
  1.85 GHz 1.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.34 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  2x Twister 2x Hurricane
• B core
  -- 2x Zephyr

• GPU name
  Apple A9 Apple A10
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz 0.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6 6
• Shader
  192 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Generation
  6 7
• Technology
  16 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2015 Q3/2016

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

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-3200 LPDDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  2 GB 3 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 1

• AES-NI
  No No

• TDP (PL1)
  5 W 5 W

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  3.00 MB 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  A9 A10
• Technology
  16 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2015 Q3/2016

• Used in
  Apple iPhone 6sApple iPhone SE (1. Gen) Apple iPhone 7Apple iPhone 7 PlusApple iPad (6. Gen)