Comparison of Apple A8X and Samsung Exynos 8890

Attribute	Samsung Exynos 8890 ×	Apple A8X ×
General Information
Brand	Samsung	Apple
Series	Samsung Exynos	Apple A series
Model	Samsung Exynos 8890	Apple A8X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	3
Frequency (GHz)	1.6	1.5
CPU Threads	8	3
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	4x Exynos M1 (Mangoos)	3x Typhoon
B core	4x Cortex-A53	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.6	-
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	2.3	-
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	No
VP8	Decode / Encode	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	Decode
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	Decode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	ARM Mali-T880 MP12	Apple A8X
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.65	0.45
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	0.65	-
Generation	0	5
DirectX Version	11	-
Execution units	12	8
Shader	192	256
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	-	4
Max. displays	2	1
GPU Release date (year)	2016	2014
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR4-1866	LPDDR3-1600
Max. Memory (GB)	-	4
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	0	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2016	2014
Technology (Nm)	14	20
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	-	4
L2-Cache (MB)	2	2
Architecture	Exynos M1 + Cortex-A53	A8X
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	-	8
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	265	230
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	331	382
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,147	1,064