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Apple A8X vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A8X
Rank 2 - 65 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 460
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 85 %
Apple A8X
Rank 1 - 100 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 460
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A8X
Apple A8X 100 %
3C / 3T · 1.50 GHz
386
Qualcomm Snapdragon 460
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz
249
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A8X
Apple A8X 85 %
3C / 3T · 1.50 GHz
1,075
Qualcomm Snapdragon 460
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz
1,259
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A8X
Apple A8X 84 %
Apple A8X
230
Qualcomm Snapdragon 460
Qualcomm Adreno 610
273

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At a glance

Wischen
Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 460
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A8/A8X (2)Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 (1)
ArchitectureA8Kryo 240
Technology20 nm11 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A6X
SuccessorApple A9X

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 460
CPU Cores / Threads3 / 38 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalhybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 3x Typhoon
1.50 GHz
4x Kryo 240 Gold
1.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Kryo 240 Silver
1.80 GHz
L2-Cache2.00 MB
L3-Cache4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 460
GPU nameApple A8XQualcomm Adreno 610
GPU frequency0.45 GHz0.00 GHz
CUs / Shader32 / 256 / 128
Raytracing
Max. displays10
Max. GPU Memory2 GB4 GB
Technology20 nm11 nm
Release dateQ3/2014Q2/2019

NPU AI performance

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 460
AI hardwareQualcomm AI engine
AI specificationsHexagon 683
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 460
MemoryLPDDR3-1600 (12.8 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-3733 (29.3 GB/s)
LPDDR3-1866 (14.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory2 GB8 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 460
TDP8 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 460
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2014Q1/2020
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A8X
Apple A8X
3C / 3T · 1.50 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 460
Qualcomm Snapdragon 460
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

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