Apple A8

The Apple A8 operates with:

CPU Cores 2.

CPU Threads: 2.

Performance-enhancing, system-enhancing technology that works faster and saves battery with:

Turbo: 1.50 GHz base 1.50 GHz all cores.

TDP: 5 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: N/A.

This version includes

4.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 1 memory channels to support LPDDR3-1600 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, A8 Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 20 nm

Virtualization None.

The product was released on Q3/2014.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

Apple A8

Family:

Apple A series

CPU group:

Apple A8/A8X

Predecessor:

Apple A7

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

Apple A9

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.10 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

1.50 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

normal

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

LPDDR3-1600

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

LPDDR3-1600

GPU name:

Apple A8

GPU frequency:

0.53 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

No turbo

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

128

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

20 nm

Release date:

Q3/2014

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

L2-Cache:

1.00 MB

Virtualization:

None

L3-Cache:

4.00 MB

Release date:

Q3/2014

Socket:

N/A

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

5 W

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

Intel Pentium J4205 329 (17%)

Samsung Exynos 9610 329 (17%)

Samsung Exynos 9611 327 (17%)

Apple A8 324 (17%)

AMD A6-4400M 324 (17%)

HiSilicon Kirin 710 322 (17%)

Intel Celeron 1000M 322 (17%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

AMD A4-3420 621 (2%)

Intel Atom x5-E8000 613 (2%)

Intel Celeron 1000M 610 (2%)

Apple A8 607 (2%)

Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) 601 (2%)

AMD A6-9210 588 (2%)

Intel Celeron 2955U 579 (2%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.

AMD A4-3300 142 (1%)

AMD E2-3200 142 (1%)

AMD A4-5145M 141 (1%)

Apple A8 137 (1%)

Intel Pentium 3560Y 136 (1%)

Intel Pentium 3561Y 136 (1%)

Intel Celeron 2961Y 136 (1%)