Apple A5
The Apple A5 is a 32-bit system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. and manufactured by Samsung. The first product Apple featured an A5 in was the iPad 2. Apple claimed during their media event on March 2, 2011, that the ARM Cortex-A9 central processing unit (CPU) in the A5 is up to two times faster than the CPU in the Apple A4, and the PowerVR SGX543MP2 graphics processing unit (GPU) in the A5 is up to nine times faster than the GPU in the A4. Apple also claimed that the A5 uses the same amount of power as the A4.
Apple A5 (S5L8940 version) chip | |
| General information | |
|---|---|
| Launched | March 11, 2011 |
| Discontinued | October 4, 2016 |
| Designed by | Apple Inc. |
| Common manufacturer(s) |
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| Product code | S5L8940X (A5) S5L8942X (A5R2) S5L8947X (A5R3) |
| Performance | |
| Max. CPU clock rate | 800 MHz to 1 GHz |
| Cache | |
| L1 cache | 32 KB instruction + 32 KB data |
| L2 cache | 1 MB |
| Architecture and classification | |
| Application | Mobile |
| Technology node | 45 nm to 32 nm |
| Microarchitecture | ARM Cortex-A9 |
| Instruction set | ARM, Thumb-2 |
| Physical specifications | |
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| GPU(s) | PowerVR SGX543MP2 (dual-core) |
| Products, models, variants | |
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| History | |
| Predecessor(s) | Apple A4 |
| Successor(s) | Apple A6 |
The last operating system update Apple provided for a mobile device containing an A5 (iPad 2 CDMA, iPhone 4S, and first-generation iPad Mini cellular models) was iOS 9.3.6, which was released on July 22, 2019, as they were discontinued with the release of iOS 10 in 2016. The latest operating system update Apple has provided for an Apple TV containing an A5 (third-generation Apple TV and third-generation Rev A Apple TV) was Apple TV Software 7.9, which was released on March 14, 2022.