Comparing Apple A8X vs Apple A8X

description_compare Apple A8X and Intel Atom Z3530

• Name
  Apple A8X Intel Atom Z3530
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple A series Intel Atom
• Generation
  8 5
• CPU group
  Apple A8/A8X Intel Atom Z3500
• Successor
  Apple A9X --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Frequency
  1.50 GHz 1.33 GHz
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

• GPU name
  Apple A8X PowerVR G6430
• GPU frequency
  0.45 GHz 0.46 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8 16
• Shader
  256 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB --
• Max. displays
  1 2
• Generation
  5
• Technology
  20 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q3/2013

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

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-1600 LPDDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  4 GB 4 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2 (Dual Channel)

• TDP (PL1)
  8 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 90 \xc2\xb0C

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None Intel VT-x
• ISA extensions
  MMX, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  A8 Moorefield
• Technology
  20 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  N/A FC-MB5T1064
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q2/2014