Vortex

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Vortex is the high-performance CPU core microarchitecture used in Apple’s A12X Bionic system-on-chip for iPad Pro devices.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Apple CPU core
CPU microarchitecture
architectureFamily ARMv8-A NERFINISHED
bitWidth 64-bit
coreCountInA12X 4 performance cores
coreCountInA12Z 4 performance cores
coreType big core
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
designGoal high single-thread performance
improved power efficiency over Monsoon
developer Apple Inc.
family Apple A-series CPU cores NERFINISHED
foundry TSMC NERFINISHED
generation predecessor of Apple Lightning
successor of Apple Monsoon
instructionSetArchitecture ARM NERFINISHED
introducedWithSoC Apple A12 Bionic NERFINISHED
introducedWithSoCVariant Apple A12X Bionic NERFINISHED
Apple A12Z Bionic NERFINISHED
marketedAs part of A12X Bionic
microarchitectureFamily Apple-designed ARM cores
optimizedFor augmented reality workloads
graphics-intensive applications
tablet productivity workloads
pairedWith Tempest NERFINISHED
pairedWithCoreType efficiency core
performanceClass high-performance core
pipelineType superscalar
processNode 7 nm
supports 64-bit floating-point arithmetic
64-bit integer arithmetic
ARMv8-A cryptographic extensions
NEON SIMD
advanced branch prediction
out-of-order execution
speculative execution
targetPlatform mobile computing
tablet
technologyNodeGeneration first Apple high-performance core on 7 nm
usedIn Apple A12X Bionic NERFINISHED
Apple A12Z Bionic NERFINISHED
usedInDevice iPad Pro (3rd generation) NERFINISHED
iPad Pro (4th generation) NERFINISHED
usedInDeviceFamily iPad Pro NERFINISHED
usedInProductLine iPad Pro with USB-C
vendor Apple Inc. NERFINISHED

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