Apple's New A6X iPad Chip Adopts PowerVR SGX 554MP4 Graphics

Post: Apple's New A6X iPad Chip Adopts PowerVR SGX 554MP4 Graphics

11-02-2012, 11:49 PM #1

3HUNNA

Splicer

769

Posts

3,917

Reputation

Credits

Member

Nov 2011

NextGenUpdate

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); AnandTech reports on an examination of the A6X chip found in the fourth-generation iPad. The work, performed by Kishonti Informatics, reveals that Apple has adopted Imagination Technologies' quad-core PowerVR SGX 554MP4 graphics in the new chip.

Originally posted by another user

The A6X retains the 128-bit wide memory interface of the A5X (and it keeps the memory controller interface adjacent to the GPU cores and not the CPU cores as is the case in the A5/A6). It also integrates two of Apple's new Swift cores running at up to 1.4GHz (a slight increase from the 1.3GHz cores in the iPhone 5's A6). The big news today is what happens on the GPU side. A quick look at the GLBenchmark results for the new iPad 4 tells us all we need to know. The A6X moves to a newer GPU core: the PowerVR SGX 554.

Unsurprisingly, the SGX 554MP4 represents a significant improvement over the quad-core SGX 543MP4 used in the A5X chip of the third-generation iPad and the triple-core SGX 543MP3 used in the A6 chip of the iPhone 5.

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});