A6 Family
Comparing 2 tiers. Where a tier has multiple variants, values show the range across all configurations.
| Spec | A6X | A6 |
|---|---|---|
| Devices | – |
iPhone 5C iPhone 5 |
| CPU | ||
| CPU Cores | 2 | 2 |
| Performance Cores | 2 | 2 |
| Performance CPU Name | Swift | Swift |
| Performance Core Speed (GHz) | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| CPU ISA | ARMv7s | ARMv7s |
| GPU | ||
| GPU cores | 4 | 3 |
| GPU Frequency (GHz) | 300 | – |
| Ray Tracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| GPU Vendor | PowerVR | PowerVR |
| Memory | ||
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 17 | – |
| Memory type | LPDDR2 | LPDDR2 |
| Memory options (GB) | 1 | 1 |
| Media Engine | ||
| Hardware Acceleration | H264 | H264 |
| Semiconductor Tech | ||
| Process node (nm) | 32 | 32 |
| Die size (mm²) | 123 | 96.71 |
| Part number | S5L8955X | S5L8950X |
| Release date | 2012-10-23 | 2012-09-12 |