Apple A4 vs Nvidia Tegra K1 T124
Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the Apple A4 on one side and the Nvidia Tegra K1 T124 on the other side. The first is dedicated to the smartphone sector, It has 2 cores, 2 threads, a maximum frequency of 1.0GHz. The second is used on the console segment, it has a total of 4 cores, 4 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 2.3 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors (if indicated), the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the date of first broadcast, the maximum number of PCIe lines, the values obtained in Geekbench 4 and Cinebench R15, as well as an average price.
Specifications:
| Processor | |
Apple A4 |
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Nvidia Tegra K1 T124 |
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| Market | |
Smartphone |
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Console |
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| Family | |
Ax |
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Tegra |
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| Part number(s), S-Spec | |
S5L8930X |
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Tegra K1-32, Tegra K1 (32-bit) |
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| Release date | |
Q1 2010 |
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Q2 2014 |
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| Lithography | |
45 nm |
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28 nm HPM |
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| Transistors | |
149,000,000 |
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- |
| |
| Cores | |
2 |
| | |
4 |
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| Threads | |
2 |
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4 |
| |
| Base frequency | |
1.0 GHz |
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2.3 GHz |
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| Turbo frequency | |
- |
| | |
- |
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| Energy cores | |
2x ARM Cortex-A8 @ 1.0 GHz |
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- |
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| High performance cores | |
- |
| | |
4x ARM Cortex-A15 R3 @ 2.3 GHz |
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| Cache memory | |
512 KB |
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1 MB |
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| Max memory capacity | |
512 MB |
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8 GB |
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| Memory types | |
DDR SDRAM |
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DDR3L, LPDDR3 |
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| Max # of memory channels | |
2 |
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2 |
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| Max memory bandwidth | |
3.2 GB/s |
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17 GB/s |
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| TDP | |
5 W |
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8 W |
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| GPU integrated graphics | |
Imagination PowerVR SGX535 |
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NVIDIA Tegra K1 Kepler GPU |
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| GPU execution units | |
2 |
| | |
1 |
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| GPU shading units | |
8 |
| | |
192 |
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| GPU base clock rate | |
- |
| | |
756 MHz |
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| GPU max clock rate | |
200 MHz |
| | |
951 MHz |
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| GPU FP32 floating point | |
1.6 GFLOPS |
| | |
365 GFLOPS |
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| AnTuTu | |
5,100 |
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154,580 |
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(iOS 64-bit | Android 64-bit)
Geekbench 4 single core | |
211 |
| | |
1,068 |
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(iOS 64-bit | Android 64-bit)
Geekbench 4 multi-core | |
211 |
| | |
2,841 |
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(SGEMM)
GFLOPS performance | |
0.5 GFLOPS |
| | |
15.2 GFLOPS |
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(Multi-core / price performance)
Performance / price ratio | |
1 pts / $ |
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11 pts / $ |
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(Multi-core / watt performance)
Performance / watt ratio | |
42 pts / W |
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355 pts / W |
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(Multi-core / global cost performance)
Performance / global cost ratio | |
1 pts / $ |
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10 pts / $ |
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| Note | |
3.5 / 5 |
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3.9 / 5 |
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| Reviews | |
723 |
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2,617 |
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| Amazon | |
Apple A4 |
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Nvidia Tegra K1 T124 |
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(Average)
New price on Amazon | |
- |
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- |
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(Average)
Used price on Amazon | |
- |
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- |
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| eBay | |
Apple A4 |
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Nvidia Tegra K1 T124 |
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(Average)
New price on eBay | |
$240 |
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- |
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(Average)
Used price on eBay | |
$30 |
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- |
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Price: prices can change over time. For technical reasons, they are not updated in real time. This is only an average of the results on the first page of each product, whether new or used. Shipping costs have not been integrated. To know the final price of the product, please go to the form of the shop. If no price is indicated, it means that we did not find any offers during the last update.
We can better compare what are the technical differences between the two processors. The processor Nvidia Tegra K1 T124 has a larger number of cores, the turbo frequency of Nvidia Tegra K1 T124 is bigger, that the PDT of Apple A4 is lower. The Nvidia Tegra K1 T124 was started more recently.
Ratios: we first consider the average for the new price if available, the average for the used price otherwise. Performance / global cost ratio: This is the ratio of performance on Geekbench 4, divided by the cost of the product + the cost of electricity over 5 years for a duration of use of 13 hours per day.
Performances :
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench 4.
The difference is 2931%.
AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.
In single core, the difference is 406%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 1246%.
Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.
Mobiles with the processor Apple A4:
Apple iPhone 4
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