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When Apple unveiled the iPad Air 2 last week, Tim Cook said the A8X SoC would have 40% faster CPU and 2.5x faster GPU performance overthe A7 in the iPad Air longchamp le pliage backpack 1 and early benchmarks for the iPad Air 2 suggest that, if anything, Apple was underestimating the A8X performance.

In the Geekbench benchmark, the A8X tri core 64 bit Cyclone CPU is about 20% faster than the A7 dual core CPU in single threaded tasks and almost twice as fast in multi threaded tasks. The tri core CPU, incidentally, is clocked at just 1.5GHz sac a main femme longchamp (the Snapdragon 805, by comparison, is usually clocked somewhere between 2.5 and2.7GHz).

A8X vs. A7 GPU, Antutu 3D benchmark. We still not quite sure what GPU is in the A8X, but it probably similar to the quad core PowerVR Series 6GX6450 found in the A8.

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The A8X also does very well compared to other SoCs. The Snapdragon 805, which is inside the new Motorola Nexus 6, only manages single and multi threaded Geekbench scores of 1053 and 3355 or about 50% slower than the A8X. Early benchmarks suggest that the 64 bit Tegra K1, which will debut in the Nexus 9 tablet, will have comparable CPU performance to the A8X which makes sense, given that they sacs longchamps pas chers both monstrous, superscalar 64 bit chips that have more in common with desktop chips than mobile chips.

Laptop like performanceAt 3 billion transistors, the A8X has roughly the same transistor count as a modern desktop chip like Intel Haswell. As we discussed in the past,transistor counts are mostlyabout capability and functionality but still, there certainly some correlation between transistor count and performance.

It a fairly naive comparison, but it worth pointing out that the A8