Comparison of Apple A8 and Samsung Exynos 7884

Attribute	Apple A8 ×	Samsung Exynos 7884 ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	Samsung
Series	Apple A series	Samsung Exynos
Model	Apple A8	Samsung Exynos 7884
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	8
Frequency (GHz)	1.1	1.35
CPU Threads	2	8
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	2x Typhoon	2x Cortex-A73
B core	-	6x Cortex-A53
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	1.5	1.6
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	1.5	-
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.6
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	Decode
VP8	No	Decode / Encode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	Decode	Decode / Encode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Apple A8	ARM Mali-G71 MP2
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.53	0.77
Generation	5	0
DirectX Version	-	11
Execution units	4	2
Shader	128	32
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	4	2
Max. displays	1	1
GPU Release date (year)	2014	2016
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR3-1600	LPDDR4-1866
Max. Memory (GB)	2	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	1	0
Technical details
Release date (year)	2014	2018
Technology (Nm)	20	14
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	4	-
L2-Cache (MB)	1	2
Architecture	A8	Cortex-A73 / 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	53
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	324	232
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	607	829