Comparison of Apple A8 and Intel Pentium 3558U

Attribute	Intel Pentium 3558U ×	Apple A8 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Apple
Series	Intel Pentium	Apple A series
Model	Intel Pentium 3558U	Apple A8
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	2
Frequency (GHz)	1.7	1.1
CPU Threads	2	2
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	-	2x Typhoon
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	-	1.5
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.5
Encryption
AES-NI	-	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	No	No
AVC	Decode / Encode	Decode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)	Apple A8
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.2	0.53
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	1	-
Generation	7	5
DirectX Version	11.1	-
Execution units	10	4
Shader	80	128
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	-	4
Max. displays	3	1
GPU Release date (year)	2012	2014
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMMDDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1333LPDDR3-1600	LPDDR3-1600
Max. Memory (GB)	16	2
PCIe lanes	10	-
PCIe version	2.0	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	1
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2014
Technology (Nm)	22	20
Socket	BGA 1168	-
Virtualization	vt-x vt-x ept	none
L3-Cache (MB)	2	4
L2-Cache (MB)	-	1
Architecture	Haswell	A8
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	100	-
TDP (PL1) (W)	15	5
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	160	137
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	360	324
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	661	607
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	68	-
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	131	-