Quote from: tipoo on May 05, 2020, 18:41:05
Still under the single core performance of the aging iPhone 7 from 2016 huh
Even the iPhone 6S from 2015 is still competitive with that single core score.
I find it impressive because Apple:
Dual sourced the A9 from TSMC 16nm and Samsung 14nm.
This was the last design without "little" cores - it was all big cores.
Predated the Cortex-A76 by 3 years, and the Snapdragon 730 by 4 years.
This is being compared to an Samsung 8nm chip in terms of performance.
The Cortex A77 (successor to the A76 uArch) seems to be having a much slower uptake from SoC vendors, implying unfavorable characteristics, so we are being stuck with the A76 for longer than normal, now.