Comparison of Apple A8X and Samsung Exynos 8890

Attribute	Apple A8X ×	Samsung Exynos 8890 ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	Samsung
Series	Apple A series	Samsung Exynos
Model	Apple A8X	Samsung Exynos 8890
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	3	8
Frequency (GHz)	1.5	1.6
CPU Threads	3	8
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	3x Typhoon	4x Exynos M1 (Mangoos)
B core	-	4x Cortex-A53
^1↑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	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	Decode
VP8	No	Decode / Encode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	Decode	No
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Apple A8X	ARM Mali-T880 MP12
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.45	0.65
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	-	0.65
Generation	5	0
DirectX Version	-	11
Execution units	8	12
Shader	256	192
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	4	-
Max. displays	1	2
GPU Release date (year)	2014	2016
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR3-1600	LPDDR4-1866
Max. Memory (GB)	4	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	0
Technical details
Release date (year)	2014	2016
Technology (Nm)	20	14
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	4	-
L2-Cache (MB)	2	2
Architecture	A8X	Exynos M1 + 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	265
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	382	331
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,064	1,147