Apple A7 vs Intel Atom x5-Z8300. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple A series Intel Atom
• Generation
  7 1
• CPU group
  Apple A7 Intel Atom x3/x5/x7
• Successor
  Apple A8 --

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
  1.30 GHz 1.44 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.40 GHz 1.84 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  2x Cyclone --

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
  PowerVR G6430 Intel HD Graphics 400
• GPU frequency
  0.45 GHz 0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.45 GHz 0.50 GHz
• Execution units
  4 12
• Shader
  64 96
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  1 3
• Generation
  8
• DirectX Version
  10 12
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q1/2015

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
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Atom x5-Z8300 and Apple A7. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3-1333 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  1 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 1
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  1

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A7 and Intel Atom x5-Z8300 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  2 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A7 and Apple A7, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  A7 Cherry Trail
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  N/A BGA 138
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q2/2015
• Part Number
  S5L8960X --