Comparing Apple A8 vs Apple A8

description_compare Apple A8 and HiSilicon Kirin 930

• Name
  Apple A8 HiSilicon Kirin 930
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple A series HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  8 3
• CPU group
  Apple A8/A8X HiSilicon Kirin 930
• Predecessor
  Apple A7 --
• Successor
  Apple A9 --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Frequency
  1.10 GHz 1.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.50 GHz 2.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 8
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  2x Typhoon 4x Cortex-A53
• B core
  -- 4x Cortex-A53

• GPU name
  Apple A8 ARM Mali-T628 MP4
• GPU frequency
  0.53 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.60 GHz
• Execution units
  4 4
• Shader
  128 64
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB --
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Generation
  5 Midgard 2
• DirectX Version
  11
• Technology
  20 nm 32nm
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q4/2012

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

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

• AES-NI
  No No

• TDP (PL1)
  5 W

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  A8 Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53
• Technology
  20 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q1/2015

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