Comparison of Apple A8 and HiSilicon Kirin 650

Attribute	HiSilicon Kirin 650 ×	Apple A8 ×
General Information
Brand	HiSilicon	Apple
Series	HiSilicon Kirin	Apple A series
Model	HiSilicon Kirin 650	Apple A8
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	2
Frequency (GHz)	1.7	1.1
CPU Threads	8	2
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	4x Cortex-A53	2x Typhoon
B core	4x Cortex-A53	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2	1.5
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.5
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	2	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode	No
VP8	Decode / Encode	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	Decode
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	Decode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	ARM Mali-T830 MP2	Apple A8
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.9	0.53
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	0.9	-
Generation	0	5
DirectX Version	11	-
Execution units	2	4
Shader	32	128
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	-	4
Max. displays	2	1
GPU Release date (year)	2015	2014
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR3-933	LPDDR3-1600
Max. Memory (GB)	-	2
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	1
Technical details
Release date (year)	2016	2014
Technology (Nm)	16	20
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	-	4
L2-Cache (MB)	-	1
Architecture	Cortex-A53	A8
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	-	5
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	41	137
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	163	324
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	763	607