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Apple A8X vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A8X
Rank 2 - 68 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A8X
Rank 2 - 86 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A8X
Apple A8X 100 %
3C / 3T · 1.50 GHz
427
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz
283
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A8X
Apple A8X 100 %
3C / 3T · 1.50 GHz
959
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz
920
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 652
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz
270
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A8X
Apple A8X 100 %
3C / 3T · 1.50 GHz
1,075
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz
1,007
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A8X
Apple A8X 100 %
Apple A8X
230
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
Qualcomm Adreno 510
154

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 652
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A8/A8X (2)Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 (3)
ArchitectureA8Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53
Technology20 nm28 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A6X
SuccessorApple A9X

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 652
CPU Cores / Threads3 / 38 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalhybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 3x Typhoon
1.50 GHz
4x Cortex-A72
1.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Cortex-A53
1.40 GHz
L2-Cache2.00 MB
L3-Cache4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 652
GPU nameApple A8XQualcomm Adreno 510
GPU frequency0.45 GHz0.60 - 0.60 GHz
CUs / Shader32 / 256 / 128
Raytracing
Max. displays10
Max. GPU Memory2 GB
Technology20 nm14 nm
Release dateQ3/2014Q4/2015

NPU AI performance

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 652
AI hardwareQualcomm AI engine
AI specificationsHexagon V56
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 652
MemoryLPDDR3-1600 (12.8 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 652
TDP8 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A8XQualcomm Snapdragon 652
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2014Q1/2016
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A8X
Apple A8X
3C / 3T · 1.50 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
Qualcomm Snapdragon 652
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

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