HiSilicon Kirin 920 vs Apple A8. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  HiSilicon Kirin 920 Apple A8/A8X
• Family
  HiSilicon Kirin Apple A series
• Generation
  2 8
• Predecessor
  - Apple A7
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Successor
  - Apple A9

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  4x Cortex-A15 2x Typhoon
• B-Core
  4x Cortex-A7 -
• Base Frequency
  1.3 GHz 1.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• CPU Cores
  8 2
• CPU Threads
  8 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  1.7 GHz 1.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  1.7 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 1.5 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  11 -
• Execution units
  4 4
• Generation
  Midgard 2 5
• GPU Frequency
  600 MHz 530 MHz
• GPU name
  ARM Mali-T628 MP4 Apple A8
• GPU Turbo
  600 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 4 GB
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q3/2014
• Shader
  64 128
• Technology
  32nm 20 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode / Encode | No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A8 and HiSilicon Kirin 920. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 2 GB
• Memory channels
  2 1
• Memory type
  LPDDR3-1600 LPDDR3-1600

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP HiSilicon Kirin 920 and Apple A8 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  - 5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by HiSilicon Kirin 920 and Apple A8, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7 A8
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  - 1 MB
• L3-Cache
  - 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q3/2014
• Technology
  28 nm 20 nm
• Virtualization
  None None