Apple A5 Chip Specs

This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon “A5” series of chips. There are three different variations in existence.

Name: Apple A5

MFG: Samsung

Released: March 11th, 2011

Codename: APL0498

Part Number: S5L8940

Fabrication Process: 45-Nanometer
or 32nm High-K dielectric metal gate.

Transistor Count: –

CPU ISA: ARMv7 (32-Bit)

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RAM Information:

Memory Bus Width: 64-Bit

Total channels: 2

Bit per channel: 32-Bit

Memory Type: LPDDR2-800 (400 MHz)

~Bandwidth: 6.4 GB/s

Capacities: 512 MB

CPU Information: 

# of Performance Cores:  2

P-Core clock:
800 MHz – 1 GHz

# of Efficiency Cores: –

E-Core clock:

Overall Cores: 2
(1 Core in Apple TV Gen 3)

P-L1i Cache: 32 KB per-core
• P-L1i Total: 64 KB •
Apple TV Gen 3: 32 KB

P-L1d Cache: 32 KB per-core
• P-L1d Total: 64 KB •
Apple TV Gen 3: 32 KB

E-L1i Cache:
• E-L1i Total: –

E-L1d Cache:
• E-L1d Total: –

P-Core L2 Cache: 1 MB
• P-Core L2 Total: 1 MB •

E-Core L2 Cache:
• E-Core L2 Total:

System lvl Cache:

Graphics Information:

GPU Cores: 2

SIMD EU: 4

FP32 ALU: 32

GPU Clock: 200 MHz

FP32 (FLOPS): 12.8 GFLops

AI Cores:

AI OPS:

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iDevices Chip was in:

  • iPhone 4s & iPad 2
    (S5L8940) 45nm
    .
  • Apple TV (3rd Gen),
    iPad 2 (iPsd 2,4),
    OG iPad mini,
    iPod touch (5th Gen)
    (S5L8942) 32nm
    .
  • Apple TV 3rd Gen
    (S5L8947) 32nm

Source: (Apple Silicon, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon, February 27th, 2026.)

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