Comparing Apple A4 vs Apple A4

description_compare Intel Atom Z2420 and Apple A4

• Name
  Intel Atom Z2420 Apple A4
• Family
  Intel Atom Apple A series
• CPU group
  Intel Atom Z2400/Z2600 Apple A4
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  3 4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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

• GPU name
  PowerVR SGX540 PowerVR SGX535
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  1 2
• Shader
  0 2
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Direct X
  10.1 10.1
• Technology
  45nm 65nm
• Release date
  Q1/2008 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

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

• Technology
  32 nm 45 nm
• Chip design
  Monolithic Chiplet
• Socket
  BGA 617 N/A
• L2-Cache
  0.50 MB 0.51 MB
• Architecture
  Penwell A4
• Operating systems
  iOS
• Virtualization
  None None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv7-A32 (32 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, SSE3, SSSE3
• Release date
  Q1/2013 Q2/2010