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Comparison of Apple A8 and HiSilicon Kirin 659 [S]ave

Attribute
HiSilicon Kirin 659 ×
Apple A8 ×
General Information
BrandHiSiliconApple
SeriesHiSilicon KirinApple A series
ModelHiSilicon Kirin 659Apple A8
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores82
Frequency (GHz)1.71.1
CPU Threads82
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Hyperthreading--
Overclocking--
A core4x Cortex-A532x Typhoon
B core4x Cortex-A53-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)2.361.5
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)-1.5
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)2.36-
Encryption
AES-NI++
Hardware codec support
JPEGDecode / EncodeDecode / Encode
h264Decode / EncodeDecode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)Decode / EncodeNo
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)DecodeNo
VP8Decode / EncodeNo
AV1NoNo
VC-1NoDecode
VP9NoNo
AVCNoDecode
Internal Graphics
GPU nameARM Mali-T830 MP2Apple A8
GPU frequency (GHz)0.90.53
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)0.9-
Generation05
DirectX Version11-
Execution units24
Shader32128
Max. GPU Memory (GB)-4
Max. displays21
GPU Release date (year)20152014
Memory And PCIe
Memory typeLPDDR3-933LPDDR3-1600
Max. Memory (GB)-2
ECC--
Memory channels21
Technical details
Release date (year)20162014
Technology (Nm)1620
Virtualization
  • none
  • none
L3-Cache (MB)-4
L2-Cache (MB)-1
ArchitectureCortex-A53A8
Instruction set (ISA)ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)-5
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)41137
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)188324
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)855607



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