Apple’s A6 chip sports 3-core graphics
The iPhone 5’s main circuit board with the A6 chip.
(Credit: iFixit)
We learn a little more about the Apple processor inside the iPhone 5 every day. Today, the focus is the graphics processing unit.
UMB TechInsights has looked inside the chip, and review site Anandtech has followed up with an analysis showing a 3-core GPU, which is likely a PowerVR SGX 543MP3 running at 266MHz, according to the chip-review site.
All of this makes for a fast A6 chip. Preliminary benchmarks show roughly twice the performance of Apple’s A5.
Note that though the A5X chip in the third-generation iPad has…
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