Comparison of Apple A8 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 808

Attribute	Apple A8 ×	Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	Qualcomm
Series	Apple A series	Qualcomm Snapdragon
Model	Apple A8	Qualcomm Snapdragon 808
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	6
Frequency (GHz)	1.1	1.44
CPU Threads	2	6
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	2x Typhoon	2x Cortex-A57
B core	-	4x Cortex-A53
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	1.5	1.82
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	1.5	-
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.82
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	Decode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	No	No
AVC	Decode	No
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Apple A8	Qualcomm Adreno 418
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.53	0.6
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	-	0.6
Generation	5	4
DirectX Version	-	11
Execution units	4	0
Shader	128	128
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	4	-
Max. displays	1	0
GPU Release date (year)	2014	2014
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR3-1600	LPDDR3-933
Max. Memory (GB)	2	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	1	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2014	2014
Technology (Nm)	20	20
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	4	-
L2-Cache (MB)	1	-
Architecture	A8	ARM Cortex-A57/Cortex-A53
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	5	-
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	137	154
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	324	176
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	607	463