Comparison of Apple A8 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

Attribute	Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 ×	Apple A8 ×
General Information
Brand	Qualcomm	Apple
Series	Qualcomm Snapdragon	Apple A series
Model	Qualcomm Snapdragon 650	Apple A8
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	6	2
Frequency (GHz)	1.4	1.1
CPU Threads	6	2
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	2x Cortex-A72	2x Typhoon
B core	4x Cortex-A53	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	1.8	1.5
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.5
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	1.4	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode	Decode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	Decode	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	Decode	No
AVC	No	Decode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Qualcomm Adreno 510	Apple A8
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.6	0.53
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	0.6	-
Generation	5	5
DirectX Version	11	-
Execution units	0	4
Shader	128	128
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	-	4
Max. displays	0	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)	28	20
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	-	4
L2-Cache (MB)	-	1
Architecture	ARM Cortex-A72/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)	154	137
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	248	324
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	803	607