Transistor count is a limited metric. That said, the A11 supposedly has 4.3 billion transistors, which is more than IBM's 12-core POWER8 chip's count. Apples to

Transistor count is a limited metric. That said, the A11 supposedly has 4.3 billion transistors, which is more than IBM's 12-core POWER8 chip's count. Apples to oranges, since the A11 has far more application-specific circuitry and much lower power consumption & clock speed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count Ps: should be noted that the embedded GPU in the A11 contributes many transistors.