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New Geekbench build clocks Apple’s A6 processor at around 1.3GHz

Thursday, September 27, 2012 · 6:04 pm · 12 Comments

“As the initial wave of iPhone 5 reviews hit, it looked as if Apple’s dual-core A6 processor was sporting a clock speed of around 1GHz,” Darren Murph reports for Engadget.

“We saw reports (and confirmed with our own handset) ranging between 1.00 and 1.02GHz, but a new Geekbench build (v2.3.6) has today revealed a horse of a different color,” Murph reports. “According to Primate Labs’ own John Poole, the latest version of the app — which landed on the App Store today — ‘features a dramatically improved processor frequency detection algorithm, which consistently reports the A6′s frequency as 1.3GHz.’”

Read more in the full article here.

Categories: News

Tags: A6, A6 clock speed, A6 processor, Apple A6, Apple processor, chips, PoP, SoC

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12 Comments

peterblood71

Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 6:08 pm · Reply

Yeah but I wanted 1.21 Gigaqatts, wah.
- peterblood71
  
  Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 6:09 pm · Reply
  
  That is Gigawatts!
- twilightmoon
  
  Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 6:11 pm · Reply
  
  Is that like a very large kumquat?
- I saw a movie once I think...
  
  Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 6:39 pm · Reply
  
  … Mothra and Godzilla vs Gigaqatt.
- xpusostomos
  
  Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 6:40 pm · Reply
  
  What would that do to the battery life???
  - Jubei
    
    Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 8:27 pm · Reply
    
    You turn it on and you have a nanosecond to use the device. Better be quick.
    - Chris
      
      Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 8:52 pm · Reply
      
      A nanosecond is not enough time to get up to 88 mph.
comptekki

Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 6:25 pm · Reply

There are AD banners before and after the comments that says get parallels 8. Anyone else seeing that 8 is a buggy piece of junk. 7 had problems with 2 monitors and 8 is worse. Was it released too earlier like win 8?

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming….
- Lordthree
  
  Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 7:33 pm · Reply
  
  there are add for galaxy s3 as well… Anyone notice what a POS that thing is?
  - Lordthree
    
    Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 7:34 pm · Reply
    
    wow. Can’t type today
DeRS

Friday, September 28, 2012 - 1:35 am · Reply

The fact that the new algorithm “consistently” shows 1.3 GHz does not mean it is correct. The previous one consistently showed 1 GH — so what?

Also, A6 is custom-designed, there are many stages in the process line there, and there could be local tricks to treat the conveyor specifically so it would not be really possible to calculate actual frequency without knowing how the CPU works — and for now no one really knows.
Tabular

Friday, September 28, 2012 - 2:38 am · Reply

Is the iPhone the fastest smart phone available? Some reviewers have said so.