The performance of simple notebook and desktop processors is now also offered by SoCs for smartphones and tablets.
Antutu has released an initial score of the A10X-Fusion-SoC, which has been achieved with an iPad Pro – and a neat performance boost: Compared to its predecessor, the A9X, the speed of CPU cores has increased by 30 percent, the performance Of the GPU has been improved by 40 percent. As a comparison, we have also listed the values we have determined with an iPhone 7 Plus (Apple A10) and a Xiaomi Mi6.
With the performance, the SoC is moving more and more into the field of a classic notebook chip – finally, the entry-level models from Intel, the Celeron as well as the Pentium have already surpassed the line from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835. In addition, the Snapdragon-SoC is to be installed at the end of the year in the first Windows-10 notebooks . Maybe it will not take so long for Apple to offer a Macbook with iOS …
