AMD A10-4600M vs Apple A8X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Apple A series
• Generation
  2 8
• CPU group
  AMD A10-4000M Apple A8/A8X
• Successor
  -- Apple A9X

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
  2.30 GHz 1.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 3
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.20 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 3
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  -- 3x 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
  AMD Radeon HD 7660G Apple A8X
• GPU frequency
  0.50 GHz 0.45 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.69 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  6 8
• Shader
  384 256
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Generation
  4 5
• DirectX Version
  11.2
• Technology
  32 nm 20 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2012 Q3/2014

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A8X and AMD A10-4600M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 LPDDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  4 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-4600M and Apple A8X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 8 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-4600M and AMD A10-4600M, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) A8
• Technology
  32 nm 20 nm
• Socket
  FS1r2 N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2012 Q3/2014