Comparison of Apple A8X and Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

Attribute	Apple A8X ×	Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	Qualcomm
Series	Apple A series	Qualcomm Snapdragon
Model	Apple A8X	Qualcomm Snapdragon 626
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	3	8
Frequency (GHz)	1.5	2.2
CPU Threads	3	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	3x Typhoon	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	-	2.2
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.2
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	Decode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	No	No
AVC	Decode	No
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Apple A8X	Qualcomm Adreno 506
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.45	0.65
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	-	0.65
Generation	5	5
DirectX Version	-	11
Execution units	8	0
Shader	256	96
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	4	-
Max. displays	1	0
GPU Release date (year)	2014	2015
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR3-1600	LPDDR3-933
Max. Memory (GB)	4	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	1
Technical details
Release date (year)	2014	2016
Technology (Nm)	20	14
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	4	-
L2-Cache (MB)	2	-
Architecture	A8X	ARM Cortex-A53
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	8	-
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	230	125
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	382	173
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,064	1,026