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posted by mrpg on Wednesday October 31 2018, @06:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-just-7-billion-humans dept.

Apple announces A12X with a 7-core GPU, 90% better multicore performance

It's been just a few short weeks since Apple unveiled the A12 Bionic, but at an event in New York City, the Cupertino company upstaged it with a more powerful model: the A12X Bionic. It's the chip in the new iPad Pro.

Apple's A12X is similarly built on a 7-nanometer process, but bigger than the A12.

"No other tablet, laptop, or even desktop has been able to make this leap forward," John Ternus, vice president of hardware engineering, said onstage.

It has 10 billion transistors and comprises a seven-core GPU and eight-core CPU, the latter of which has four performance cores and four efficiency cores. Single-core CPU performance is up to 35 percent faster compared to last year's iPad Pro chip, and 90 percent faster in terms of multicore performance.

[...] Apple says it delivers "Xbox One S-class" graphics performance in a package that is much smaller, and claims it's faster than 92 percent of all portable PCs.

Also at Wccftech.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:56AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:56AM (#755951)

    Does it run Linux?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @08:02AM (#755952)

    Sure. [jslinux.org]