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Comparison of Apple A8X and HiSilicon Kirin 950 [S]ave

Attribute
HiSilicon Kirin 950 ×
Apple A8X ×
General Information
BrandHiSiliconApple
SeriesHiSilicon KirinApple A series
ModelHiSilicon Kirin 950Apple A8X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores83
Frequency (GHz)1.81.5
CPU Threads83
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Hyperthreading--
Overclocking--
A core4x Cortex-A723x Typhoon
B core4x Cortex-A53-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)2.3-
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)2.3-
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-T880 MP4Apple A8X
GPU frequency (GHz)0.90.45
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)0.9-
Generation05
DirectX Version11-
Execution units48
Shader64256
Max. GPU Memory (GB)-4
Max. displays21
GPU Release date (year)20162014
Memory And PCIe
Memory typeLPDDR4LPDDR3-1600
Max. Memory (GB)-4
ECC--
Memory channels22
Technical details
Release date (year)20152014
Technology (Nm)1620
Virtualization
  • none
  • none
L3-Cache (MB)-4
L2-Cache (MB)-2
ArchitectureARMA8X
Instruction set (ISA)ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)-8
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)122230
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)331382
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)1,1831,064



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