Developers write to the OS not the chip. Which is why OS adoption rates are so important. If an A5 supports the latest OS version, that's all that really matters. The vast majority of apps are not compute bound, nor even GPU bound.
Except when an app doesn't work well and people write negative reviews on the App Store. A lot of apps now require iOS 7 and higher. iOS 7 doesn't work that great on A5 devices.
I think he meant the article doesn't mean much, not that the subject isn't meaningful. Personally I got nothing from the article or the picture other than "some people are starting to understand what Apple did with their latest processor, and it's not an off-the-shelf component."
This is an Apple enthusiast site. You'd rarely find the average user here in the first place. They'd probably find most processor tech articles meaningless anyway.
So I don't really understand the complaint (beyond the context of trolling, anyway.)
Finally. They used up over a third of the die on GPU alone, wow.
The GPU is becoming far more relevant to performance than the CPU these days with the high density displays on mobile devices and 4K/5K displays coming to desktops.
You are certainly correct about that.
[@]TheWhiteFalcon[/@] Check out the die of the nvidia K1. It's similarly dominated by gpu cores. It's the way it is these days. We want snappy, high resolution "console quality" graphics.
As an aside, I'll admit that I never tire of looking at chips. It's chip porn, and I am ok with that.
I'm a chip design fan, especially when it comes to CPU and GPU architecture. So I personally really like these kinds of articles. Still, I would like to see a full photo of the A8X here, hopefully one will turn up soon.
All the more reason it's ridiculous that Apple is still selling A5 devices. Non-retina mini should be killed off (Apple shouldn't be selling any non-retina iOS devices at this point). And the iPod touch should either be updated or discontinued. Make a decision on iPods rather than letting them die on the vine.
i agree with that, till date they have never sold an iOS device without at least 1 year of updates left, either IOS 10 will still support A5 or something wrong.
Then the iPods they are using as an excuse
1.They release a device with semi outdated hardware at release
2.they don't update it for 2 years
3.No one buys it for this reason of terribly out of date
4.they use as excuse of no one buying it.
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Except when an app doesn't work well and people write negative reviews on the App Store. A lot of apps now require iOS 7 and higher. iOS 7 doesn't work that great on A5 devices.
I think he meant the article doesn't mean much, not that the subject isn't meaningful. Personally I got nothing from the article or the picture other than "some people are starting to understand what Apple did with their latest processor, and it's not an off-the-shelf component."
This is an Apple enthusiast site. You'd rarely find the average user here in the first place. They'd probably find most processor tech articles meaningless anyway.
So I don't really understand the complaint (beyond the context of trolling, anyway.)
You are certainly correct about that.
[@]TheWhiteFalcon[/@] Check out the die of the nvidia K1. It's similarly dominated by gpu cores. It's the way it is these days. We want snappy, high resolution "console quality" graphics.
As an aside, I'll admit that I never tire of looking at chips. It's chip porn, and I am ok with that.
i agree with that, till date they have never sold an iOS device without at least 1 year of updates left, either IOS 10 will still support A5 or something wrong.
Then the iPods they are using as an excuse
1.They release a device with semi outdated hardware at release
2.they don't update it for 2 years
3.No one buys it for this reason of terribly out of date
4.they use as excuse of no one buying it.
This doesn't mean much to the average users.
You meant those still use iPad 2?
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