Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs Apple A8. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Apple A series
• Generation
  4 8
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Apple A8/A8X
• Predecessor
  -- Apple A7
• Successor
  -- Apple A9

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 1.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.80 GHz 1.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  -- 2x Typhoon

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

• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 506 Apple A8
• GPU frequency
  0.60 GHz 0.53 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.60 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  0 4
• Shader
  96 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 4 GB
• Max. displays
  0 1
• Generation
  5 5
• DirectX Version
  11
• Technology
  14 nm 20 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2015 Q3/2014

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A8 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 450. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-933 LPDDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  2 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 1

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 and Apple A8 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 450, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  -- 1.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A53 A8
• Technology
  14 nm 20 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q3/2014
• Part Number
  SDM450 --