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I think it'd do just fine. The A12X has 10 billion transistors. Sandy Bridge has 1 billion.
by jagger27 6y ago
I think it'd do just fine. The A12X has 10 billion transistors. Sandy Bridge has 1 billion.
- jcelerier 6y agoBut my sandy CPU had not much trouble being OC'ed to 4.5ghz while apparently the top freq. of the A13 is 2.7 ghz? How many, say, convolution reverbs can you chain on the A12 or A13 would for instance be a super relevant metric to compare things.
- messe 6y agoAnd I bet your sandy CPU had active cooling. The A13 tops out at 2.7GHz because that's what Apple decided was safe for a passively cooled phone. I don't doubt that it could run at 4.5GHz in a desktop package, with a proper fan and heatsink.
- jcelerier 6y agoI don't understand, isn't this whole conversation about using these ARM chips for the next desktop macs ? > I don't doubt that it could run at 4.5GHz in a desktop package, with a proper fan and heatsink. well, I don't know at all. I'm pretty sure you can't take a, say, 2.something ghz U-series intel i7 CPU and make it go a lot beyond 3ghz
- Veedrac 6y agoYou'd almost certainly need to redesign the hardware for that; the A13 already pushes its efficiency curve during boosts.
- nojito 6y agoHow is this a valid comparison? You have active cooling for the sandy CPU the iPad does not.
- ksec 6y agoAnd the A13 was built on ULP node with a maximum power budget of less than 6W. There is no reason why an A13 built on HP node with power budget of 20W and active cooling cant reach 4Ghz +.