The Apple A9X is a 64-bit ARM architecture-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. , part of the Apple silicon series. It first appeared in the iPad Pro , which was announced on September 9, 2015 and was released on November 11, 2015. The A9X has the M9 motion coprocessor embedded in it, something not seen in previous chip generations. It is a variant of the A9 and Apple claims that it has 80% more CPU performance and twice the GPU performance of its predecessor, the A8X .
4-476: A9X may refer to: Apple A9X , a microprocessor architecture Holden LX Torana A9X , an Australian touring car A variant of the AIM-9 Sidewinder , an air-to-air missile Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title A9X . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
8-559: The A9 , the A9X does not contain an L3 cache due to its significant DRAM bandwidth . The A9X is paired with 4 GB of LPDDR4 memory in the 12.9" iPad Pro and 2 GB of LPDDR4 memory in the 9.7" iPad Pro with a total bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. This high bandwidth is necessary to feed the SoC's custom 12-core PowerVR Series7XT GPU. The RAM is not included in the A9X package unlike its sibling, the A9 . The A9X uses
12-446: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A9X&oldid=1145168941 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Apple A9X The latest software update for the iPad Pro 12.9 1st generation & 9.7 using this chip
16-469: Was iPadOS 16.7.9 , released on July 29, 2024, as it was discontinued with the release of iPadOS 17 in 2023 due to hardware limitations of the A9X. It is expected to continue receiving security updates for some period of time. The A9X features an Apple-designed 64-bit ARMv8-A dual-core CPU called "Twister". It offers double the memory bandwidth and double the storage performance of the Apple A8X . Unlike
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