Here's your Apple A9 and A9X confusion thread
by from Techreport on (#KZ06)
We learned from today's announcements that Apple has produced a couple of new, high-end mobile SoCs for its iPad Pro and iPhone 6S products, and the company made some pretty serious claims about the performance of those devices. Let me outline for you what we know, and then it will be clear how much is missing.
First, the iPad Pro is powered by the A9X SoC. Apple says its CPU is as much as "1.8x faster" than the triple-core "Cyclone++" processor in the A8X chip onboard the iPad Air 2. That enhanced version of the Cyclone core was already one of the most potent mobile CPUs cores anywhere. The firm also ...