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Apple
Apple A10 Fusion
Apple's A10 Fusion is a 16nm four-core SoC with two Hurricane performance cores at up to 2.34GHz, two Zephyr efficiency cores and a six-core PowerVR Series7XT Plus GPU. It debuted in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in September 2016 and later appeared in the sixth- and seventh-generation iPad.
Pros
- Four-core CPU with two high-performance cores that Apple rated up to twice as fast as the iPhone 6's and two high-efficiency cores that can run at one-fifth the power of the performance cores
- Six-core PowerVR GPU that Apple rated at up to three times the iPhone 6's graphics performance at as little as half the power
- Built on TSMC's 16nm FinFET process with about 3.3 billion transistors
Cons
- No integrated modem; the iPhone 7 uses a separate Qualcomm or Intel LTE chip depending on the model
- Wi-Fi is limited to 802.11ac and Bluetooth to 4.2, so none of the newer wireless standards
- 3DMark Wild Life Extreme median of 664 at 66% stability on the iPhone 7 Plus points to little GPU headroom in modern 3D workloads
Awaiting benchmarks
No Inno Score yet: CPU still needs a published benchmark result.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Apple A10 Fusion
General
- Announced
- 2016
- Process
- 16 nm
- Architecture
- Armv8
CPU
- Cores
- 4
- Core configuration
- 2x2.34 GHz Hurricane + 2x Zephyr
- Max clock
- 2.34 GHz
GPU
- GPU
- PowerVR Series7XT Plus (6-core)
Memory
- Memory type
- LPDDR4
Connectivity
- Modem
- Qualcomm MDM9645M or Intel XMM 7360 LTE (external)
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi 5
- Bluetooth
- 4.2
Media
- Max display
- 2160x1620
- Video capture
- 4K@30fps
Benchmarks
- 3DMark Wild Life Extreme
- 664Bottom 44%
Devices with the Apple A10 Fusion
2 devices in our catalog use this chip
Quick answers
Is the Apple A10 Fusion good in 2026?
We haven't scored the Apple A10 Fusion yet: there are no published CPU benchmark results for it in our database, and we don't score chips on their spec sheet alone. Apple's A10 Fusion is a 16nm four-core SoC with two Hurricane performance cores at up to 2.34GHz, two Zephyr efficiency cores and a six-core PowerVR Series7XT Plus GPU. It debuted in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in September 2016 and later appeared in the sixth- and seventh-generation iPad.
Which devices use the Apple A10 Fusion?
2 devices in our catalog use the Apple A10 Fusion: iPad 7th Gen (A10), iPad 6th Gen (A10).
What are the key specs of the Apple A10 Fusion?
Cores: 4 · Process: 16 nm · GPU: PowerVR Series7XT Plus (6-core)
What are the closest alternatives to the Apple A10 Fusion?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, Apple A11 Bionic, Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
