Comparison of Apple A8X and Intel Core i3-L16G4

Attribute	Intel Core i3-L16G4 ×	Apple A8X ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Apple
Series	Intel Core i3	Apple A series
Model	Intel Core i3-L16G4	Apple A8X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	5	3
Frequency (GHz)	0.8	1.5
CPU Threads	5	3
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	1x Sunny-Cove	3x Typhoon
B core	4x Tremont	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.8	-
Turbo (5 Cores) (GHz)	1.3	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode	No
VP8	Decode / Encode	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	Decode / Encode	No
AVC	Decode / Encode	Decode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics (Ice Lake G4)	Apple A8X
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.3	0.45
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	0.5	-
Generation	11	5
DirectX Version	12	-
Execution units	48	8
Shader	384	256
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	-	4
Max. displays	3	1
GPU Release date (year)	2019	2014
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR4-4266	LPDDR3-1600
Max. Memory (GB)	32	4
PCIe lanes	12	-
PCIe version	3.0	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2020	2014
Technology (Nm)	10	20
Socket	BGA 1526	-
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	none
L3-Cache (MB)	4	4
L2-Cache (MB)	-	2
Architecture	Lakefield	A8X
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	100	-
TDP down (W)	5	-
TDP (PL1) (W)	7	8
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	256	230
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	814	382
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,210	1,064