Apple A8X

The Apple A8X operates with:

CPU Cores 3.

CPU Threads: 3.

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

Turbo: No turbo base No turbo all cores.

TDP: 8 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: N/A.

This version includes

4.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 2 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 A8X

Family:

Apple A series

CPU group:

Apple A8/A8X

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

Apple A9X

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.50 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

No turbo

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 A8X

GPU frequency:

0.45 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

No turbo

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

256

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

20 nm

Release date:

Q3/2014

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

L2-Cache:

2.00 MB

Virtualization:

None

L3-Cache:

4.00 MB

Release date:

Q3/2014

Socket:

N/A

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

8 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 Core i5-4210Y 395 (21%)

Intel Core i3-2350M 394 (21%)

AMD Phenom II X4 840 388 (21%)

Apple A8X 386 (20%)

AMD A10-8700P 386 (20%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 384 (20%)

Intel Core i3-4025U 383 (20%)

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 A10-5750M 1081 (3%)

AMD Athlon 3000G 1081 (3%)

Intel Core i3-5015U 1076 (3%)

Apple A8X 1075 (3%)

Intel Celeron G1820 1069 (3%)

Intel Celeron G1840 1067 (3%)

AMD A10-8700P 1063 (3%)

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.

HiSilicon Kirin 960 245 (2%)

Intel Core i5-3610ME 243 (2%)

MediaTek Helio G90T 231 (2%)

Apple A8X 230 (2%)

Intel Core i7-2715QE 230 (2%)

Intel Core i7-2710QE 230 (2%)

Intel Core i7-2675QM 230 (2%)