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Apple A8 Specs

Specifications of the Apple A8 processor dedicated to the smartphone sector, it has 2 cores, 2 threads, a maximum frequency of 1,4GHz. The table below makes it possible to observe well the lithography, the number of transistors (if present), the offered cache memory, the maximum capacity of RAM memory that we can get, the type of compatible memory, the release date, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in the Passmark platform, Cinebench R23 and Geekbench 5.

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Specifications:

Processor		Apple A8
Market (main)		Smartphone
ISA		ARMv8.0-A (64-bit)
Microarchitecture		Typhoon
Family		A series
Part number(s), S-Spec		APL1011
Release date		Q3 2014
Lithography		20 nm
Transistors		2.000.000.000
Cores		2
Threads		2
Frequency		1,4 GHz
Details		2x Apple Typhoon @ 1,4 GHz
Cache memory		4 MB
Max memory capacity		2 GB
Memory types		LPDDR3-1600
Max # of memory channels		1
Max memory bandwidth		12,8 GB/s
TDP		5 W
GPU integrated graphics		Imagination PowerVR GX6450
GPU execution units		4
GPU shading units		128
GPU clock		450 MHz
GPU FP32 floating point		115,2 GFLOPS
Socket		SoC
AnTuTu		79. 100
PassMark CPU Mark		1.462
(iOS 64-bit) Geekbench 4 single core		1.395
(iOS 64-bit) Geekbench 4 multi-core		2.384
(iOS) Geekbench 5 single core		363
(iOS) Geekbench 5 multi-core		668
(SGEMM) GFLOPS performance		35 GFLOPS
(Multi-core / watt performance) Performance / watt ratio		477 pts / W
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Performances :

Performance comparison between this processor and those of equivalent power, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark softwares such as Geekbench 4.

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Performance comparison on the AnTuTu benchmark platform for mobile devices:

	AnTuTu — Total score
MediaTek MT6763V Helio P23	82.100
Rockchip RK3356	82.023
MediaTek MT6763 Helio P23	81.560
MediaTek MT6757T Helio P25	80.641
MediaTek MT6762V Helio P22	80.260
Apple A8	79. 100
Qualcomm SDM630 Snapdragon 630	78.550
Qualcomm APQ8053	77.143
MediaTek MT6761V/WE Helio A20	76.608
MediaTek MT6762 Helio P22	75.140

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AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.

Performance comparison on the Passmark benchmark platform for processors:

	iOS PassMark — CPU Mark
Apple A10X Fusion	3. 742
Apple A10 Fusion	2.526
Apple A8X	2.113
Apple A9X	1.944
Apple A9	1.794
Apple A8	1.462

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PassMark is a benchmarking software that performs several performance tests including prime numbers, integers, floating point, compression, physics, extended instructions, encoding, sorting. The higher the score is, the higher is the device capacity.

On iOS: performance comparison in Geekbench 4 with iOS operating system.

	Geekbench 4 — Multi-core & single core score — iOS 64-bit
Apple A10X Fusion	3.936 9.454
Apple A10 Fusion	3.358 5.692
Apple A9X	3.121 5.332
Apple A8X	1.798 4.356
Apple A9	2.296 4.025
Apple A8	1.395 2.384
Apple A7	1.210 2.076
Apple A6X	812 1.358
Apple A6	768 1. 253
Apple A5X	333 578

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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.

Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.

On iOS: performance comparison in Geekbench 5 with iOS operating system.

	Geekbench 5 — Multi-core & single core score — iOS
Apple A11 Bionic	900 2. 252
Apple A10 Fusion	759 1.354
Apple A9X	640 1.198
Apple A8X	384 1.067
Apple A9	551 1.030
Apple A8	363 668
Apple A7	269 505

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Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.

List of comparisons:

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List of benchmarks:

AnTuTuGeekbench 4 on iOSGeekbench 5 on iOSPassMarkGFLOPS performance

Equivalence:

Apple A8 Intel equivalentApple A8 AMD equivalent

See also:

Apple A10 FusionApple A10X FusionApple A11 BionicApple A12 BionicApple A12X BionicApple A12Z BionicApple A13 BionicApple A14 BionicApple A15 BionicApple A16 BionicApple A4Apple A5Apple A5XApple A6Apple A6XApple A7Apple A8XApple A9Apple A9X

Smartphones with the processor Apple A8:

Apple iPhone 6Apple iPhone 6 Plus

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Apple’s A8 SoC analyzed: The iPhone 6 chip is a 2-billion-transistor 20nm monster

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Powering both the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus is Apple’s new A8 SoC. This new chip, which contains around two billion transistors, will be one of the first mass-market components to use TSMC’s 20nm process. The A8 SoC will, according to Apple, be about 25% faster than its predecessor in CPU tasks, and 50% faster on the GPU side of things. These are some big performance gains that are made even more impressive by the fact that the A8 is reportedly 50% more power efficient than the A7 — and, despite almost doubling the transistor count, the die size is somehow 13% smaller. Read on for some detailed analysis of Apple’s new A8 SoC.

2 billion transistors

While Apple shied away from giving too many technical details about the A8 SoC, it did note that there’s around 2 billion transistors in there, fabricated with a 20nm process. This is a huge step up from the A7 SoC, which had “more than 1 billion transistors” on a 28nm process. While it’s possible that the A7 actually had significantly more than 1 billion transistors, and Apple was just hiding the fact, it seems unlikely. In either case, 2 billion transistors is a huge number for a mobile chip. Intel’s desktop Haswell chips actually have less transistors (~1. 4 billion) than the A8 — though with a fully decked out GT3/Iris Pro GPU, the transistor count is probably around 2 billion as well.

This graph shows the much larger improvements in size and power consumption from TSMCs 16nm FinFET process

The transistor count is even more impressive when you factor in the A8’s die size, which is just 89mm² — down from the A7’s 102mm².

The shift to TSMC’s 20nm process certainly explains some of the increased transistor density, and also some of the power efficiency improvements reported by Apple — but certainly not all of the improvements. TSMC itself says that its clients should see 15-20% improvement in both die size and power consumption when going from 28nm to 20nm. There will be additional gains when TSMC transitions to FinFET at 16nm — but that’s not for another year or so.

The only sane assumption seems to be that Apple significantly rearchitected the A8, both to squeeze in more transistors, and to improve overall efficiency. Or Apple just threw in a lot more L2 and L3 cache, which costs a lot of transistors. Specifics will have to wait until a reverse-engineering company like Chipworks actually gets its hands on the A8 SoC and takes a look inside.

iPhone 6 A8 SoC CPU and GPU performance graph (Apple’s own figures)

CPU and GPU specs

In classic Apple style, the company only revealed the bare minimum of tech specs for the CPU and GPU inside the A8 SoC, instead falling back on relative performance graphs. As you can see from the graphs above, the A8 CPU and GPU are about 25% and 50% faster than the A7 CPU and GPU.

25% faster on the CPU side means we can almost certainly discount an increase in core count. Instead, we are probably looking at a tweaked dual-core Cyclone CPU (higher IPC) that’s clocked slightly higher (perhaps 1.4GHz instead of the A7’s 1.3GHz). If you recall from last year, Cyclone is Apple’s 64-bit ARMv8 chip; it’s a superscalar beast that has more in common with desktop CPUs than something like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon.

Block diagram of PowerVR’s Series6XT GPU

The 50% faster GPU performance is probably something as simple as more cores. Last year’s A7 had a quad-core PowerVR Series6 G6430 GPU. The A8 probably has a hexa-core Series6 G6630, or perhaps a brand-new hexa-core Series 6XT GX6650. A newer GPU would make sense, given Apple’s recent trend towards new, advanced graphics technologies (Metal et al.) In both cases, jumping from four to six cores would give the 50% performance boost that Apple is claiming.

A leaked iPhone 6 logic board, showing the A8 SoC and a part number that says there’s 1GB of DRAM stacked on top.

RAM and other bits and pieces

Rounding out the A8 SoC’s hardware specs, leaked Geekbench scores and an iPhone 6 logic board appear to confirm that there will be just 1GB of DRAM stacked on top. It’s possible that there will be multiple variants — perhaps a 1GB A8 SoC for the iPhone 6, and a 2GB version for the iPhone 6 Plus. We’d just be guessing, though — which is silly, as we’ll find out for certain on September 19 when people start benchmarking their new Apple smartphones.

Given Apple’s claim of a 50% improvement in power efficiency, and only 15-20% of that coming from the 20nm process, there could be some other interesting tweaks to the A8’s overall architecture. Unfortunately, until we actually play with a new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus , it’s very hard to reveal what those tweaks might be. We could be looking at improved power gating — or maybe tweaks to the CPU and iOS 8 allow for a faster race-to-idle.

In any case, we should know a lot more about the A8 SoC after the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are actually released on September 19. Reverse-engineering companies will tear the chip apart physically, developers and hackers will interrogate it mentally. Rest assured that the A8 SoC will give up all of its secrets sooner rather than later.

Apple A9: specs, benchmarks

Apple A9 is a dual-core chipset that was announced on September 9, 2015 and is manufactured using a 14nm process technology. It has 2 Twister cores at 1850 MHz.

CPU performance

29

Gaming performance

21

Energy efficiency

49

Final score

31

Benchmark tests

Test results in Geekbench, AnTuTu and other benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

AnTuTu Benchmark measures the speed of CPU, GPU, memory and other system components

Apple A9

221173

CPU	69795
GPU	67333
Memory	34249
UX	51862
Total score	221173

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GeekBench 5

GeekBench shows single-threaded and multi-threaded CPU performance

Single-Core Score

528

Multi-Core Score

963

Image compression	53. 4 Mpixels/s
Face detection	9.04 images/s
Speech recognition	21.9 words/s
Machine learning	26.3 images/s
Camera shooting	12.2 images/s
HTML 5	1.34 Mnodes/s
SQLite	313 Krows/s

Specifications

Detailed specifications of Apple A9 chip with PowerVR GT7600 graphics

CPU

Architecture	2x 1.85 GHz — Twister
Number of cores	2
Frequency	1850 MHz
Instruction set	ARMv8-A
L1 cache	128 KB
L2 cache	3 MB
L3 cache	4 MB
Process	14 nm
Number of transistors	2 billion
TDP	5W

Graphics Accelerator

GPU	PowerVR GT7600
Architecture	Rogue
GPU frequency	650 MHz
Computer units	6
shader units	192
Vulcan version	1. 1
OpenCL version	1.2
DirectX Version	11

RAM

Memory type	LPDDR4
Memory frequency	1333 MHz
Tire	2x 16 Bit
Capacity	Up to 14.9 Gbps
Volume	Up to 4 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor	Apple M9
Accumulator type	NVMe
Max. display resolution	1920 x 1080
Max. camera resolution	1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video recording	4K @ 30FPS
Video playback	4K @ 30FPS
Codec support	H.264, H.265
Audio	AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Communications and networks

Modem	Qualcomm MDM9635M
4G support	LTE ​​Cat. 6
5G support	No
Download speed	Up to 450 Mbps
Download speed	Up to 150 Mbps
WiFi	5
Bluetooth	4.2
Navigation	GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

General information

Announcement date	September 2015
Grade	Flagship
Model number	APL0898

Competitive comparisons

1.
A11 Bionic or Apple A9

2.
A13 Bionic or Apple A9

3.
A10 Fusion or Apple A9

4.
A14 Bionic or Apple A9

5.
A15 Bionic or Apple A9

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• OpenGL version?
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• Interface width?
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• Flops?
  0.12 TFLOPS vs 0.06 TFLOPS

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Performance

1.cpu speed

2 x 1.4GHz

CPU speed indicates how many processing cycles per second the processor can perform, considering all its cores (processors). It is calculated by adding the clock speeds of each core or, in the case of multi-core processors, each group of cores.

2nd processor thread

More threads result in better performance and better multitasking.

3. Uses big.LITTLE 9 technology0003

✖Apple A8

Using big.LITTLE technology, the chip can switch between two sets of processors to ensure maximum performance and battery life. For example, while gaming, a more powerful processor will be used to improve performance, while checking email will use a less powerful processor to extend battery life.

4. Uses HMP

✖Apple A8

HMP is a more advanced version of big. LITTLE technology. In this configuration, the processor can use all cores at the same time, or only one core for low-intensity tasks. This can provide high performance and longer battery life respectively.

5. turbo clock speed

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When the processor is running below its limits, it can jump to a higher clock speed to increase performance.

6.L2 cache

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More L2 scratchpad memory results in faster results in CPU and system performance tuning.

7.L1 cache

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More L1 scratchpad results in faster results in CPU and system performance tuning.

8.hour multiplier

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The hour multiplier controls the speed of the processor.

9. L3 cache

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More L3 scratchpad memory results in faster results in CPU and system performance tuning.

Memory

1st RAM speed

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Can support faster memory that speeds up system performance.

2nd DDR memory version

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DDR (Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) is the most common type of main memory. New versions of DDR memory support higher maximum speeds and are more energy efficient.

3.max memory

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Maximum amount of memory (RAM).

4.max memory bandwidth

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This is the maximum rate at which data can be read from or stored in memory.

5. memory channels

More memory channels increase the speed of data transfer between memory and processor.

6.eMMC version

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A newer version of eMMC — built-in flash memory card — speeds up the memory interface, has a positive effect on device performance, for example, when transferring files from a computer to internal memory via USB.

7.Supports memory error recovery code

✖Apple A8

Memory error recovery code can detect and repair data corruption. It is used when necessary to avoid distortion, such as in scientific computing or when starting a server.

Features

1. Has built-in LTE

✔Apple A8

System on a Chip (SoC) has built-in LTE cellular chip. LTE can download at higher speeds than older 3G technologies.

2.load speed

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Download speed is a measurement of Internet connection bandwidth that represents the maximum data transfer rate at which a device can access online content.

3. download speed

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Download speed is a measure of the bandwidth of an Internet connection, representing the maximum data transfer rate at which a device can send information to a server or other device.

4. Has TrustZone

✔Apple A8 (Apple Cyclone)

The technology is integrated into the processor to ensure device security when using features such as mobile payments and streaming video using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology.

5.uses multithreading

✖Apple A8

Multithreading technology (such as Intel’s Hyperthreading or AMD’s Simultaneous Multithreading) provides better performance by dividing each physical processor core into logical cores, also known as threads. Thus, each core can run two instruction streams at the same time.

6. Has NX bit

✔Apple A8 (Apple Cyclone)

NX bit helps protect your computer from virus attacks.

7.bits transmitted at the same time

128 (Apple Cyclone)

NEON provides faster processing of multimedia data such as MP3 listening.

8. Has AES

✔Apple A8 (Apple Cyclone)

AES is used to speed up encryption and decryption.

9.VFP version

4 (Apple Cyclone)

The floating point vector (VFP) is used by the processor to provide enhanced performance in areas such as digital imaging.

Geotagging

1.Geekbench 5 result (single core)

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Geekbench 5 is a cross-platform benchmark that measures the single-core performance of a processor.