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Apple A8 vs AMD EPYC 72F3

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 21 %
Apple A8
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD EPYC 72F3
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 5 %
Apple A8
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD EPYC 72F3
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A8
Apple A8 21 %
2C / 2T · 1.50 GHz
324
AMD EPYC 72F3
8C / 16T · 4.10 GHz
1,512
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A8
Apple A8 5 %
2C / 2T · 1.50 GHz
607
AMD EPYC 72F3
8C / 16T · 3.90 GHz
13,080

More benchmarks

At a glance

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Apple A8AMD EPYC 72F3
FamilyApple A series (27)AMD EPYC (147)
CPU groupApple A8/A8X (2)AMD EPYC 7003 (29)
ArchitectureA8Milan (Zen 3)
Technology20 nm7 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletServer
SocketSP3
PredecessorApple A7
SuccessorApple A9

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A8AMD EPYC 72F3
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 28 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x Typhoon 8x Zen 3
Frequency: 1.50 GHz 3.70 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 4.10 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 3.90 GHz
L2-Cache1.00 MB
L3-Cache4.00 MB256.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A8AMD EPYC 72F3
GPU nameApple A8no iGPU
GPU frequency0.53 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 128 /
Raytracing
Max. displays1
Max. GPU Memory4 GB
Technology20 nm
Release dateQ3/2014

NPU AI performance

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Apple A8AMD EPYC 72F3
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A8AMD EPYC 72F3
MemoryLPDDR3-1600 (12.8 GB/s)
DDR4-3200 (204.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory1 GB4096 GB
Memory channels18
ECCNoYes
PCIe4.0 x 128
PCIe Bandwidth252.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Apple A8AMD EPYC 72F3
TDP5 W180 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up200 W
TDP down165 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A8AMD EPYC 72F3
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release dateQ3/2014Q1/2021
Release price2468 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A8
Apple A8
2C / 2T · 1.50 GHz
AMD EPYC 72F3
AMD EPYC 72F3
8C / 16T · 3.70 - 4.10 GHz

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