Comparing Apple A8 vs Apple A8

description_compare Apple A8 and Apple A8X

• Name
  Apple A8 Apple A8X
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple A series Apple A series
• Generation
  8 8
• CPU group
  Apple A8/A8X Apple A8/A8X
• Predecessor
  Apple A7 --
• Successor
  Apple A9 Apple A9X

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Frequency
  1.10 GHz 1.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 3
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.50 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  2 3
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  2x Typhoon 3x Typhoon

• GPU name
  Apple A8 Apple A8X
• GPU frequency
  0.53 GHz 0.45 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  4 8
• Shader
  128 256
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Generation
  5 5
• Technology
  20 nm 20 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q3/2014

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode Decode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-1600 LPDDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  2 GB 4 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2

• AES-NI
  No No

• TDP (PL1)
  5 W 8 W

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  A8 A8
• Technology
  20 nm 20 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q3/2014

• Used in
  Apple iPhone 6Apple iPhone 6 PlusApple iPad Mini 4Apple TV HDApple HomePodApple iPod touch (6. Gen) Apple iPad Air 2