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Comparison of Apple A8X and HiSilicon Kirin 970 [S]ave

Attribute
HiSilicon Kirin 970
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Apple A8X
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General Information
BrandHiSiliconApple
SeriesHiSilicon KirinApple A series
ModelHiSilicon Kirin 970Apple A8X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores83
Frequency (GHz)1.841.5
CPU Threads83
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Hyperthreading--
Overclocking--
A core4x Cortex-A733x Typhoon
B core4x Cortex-A53-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)2.4-
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)2.4-
Encryption
AES-NI++
Hardware codec support
JPEGDecode / EncodeDecode / Encode
h264Decode / EncodeDecode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)Decode / EncodeNo
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)Decode / EncodeNo
VP8Decode / EncodeNo
AV1NoNo
VC-1Decode / EncodeDecode
VP9Decode / EncodeNo
AVCDecode / EncodeDecode
Internal Graphics
GPU nameARM Mali-G72 MP12Apple A8X
GPU frequency (GHz)0.750.45
Generation05
DirectX Version12-
Execution units128
Shader192256
Max. GPU Memory (GB)24
Max. displays11
GPU Release date (year)20172014
Memory And PCIe
Memory typeLPDDR4X-2133LPDDR3-1600
Max. Memory (GB)84
ECC--
Memory channels42
Technical details
Release date (year)20172014
Technology (Nm)1020
Virtualization
  • none
  • none
L3-Cache (MB)24
L2-Cache (MB)-2
ArchitectureARMA8X
Instruction set (ISA)ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)98
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)330230
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)349382
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)1,4551,064



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