A8 Family
Comparing 2 tiers. Where a tier has multiple variants, values show the range across all configurations.
| Spec | A8X | A8 |
|---|---|---|
| Devices | – |
iPhone 6 Plus iPhone 6 Apple TV HD |
| CPU | ||
| CPU Cores | 3 | 2 |
| Performance Cores | 3 | 2 |
| Performance CPU Name | Typhoon | Typhoon |
| Performance Core Speed (GHz) | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| CPU ISA | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| GPU | ||
| GPU cores | 8 | 4 |
| GPU Frequency (GHz) | 450 | – |
| Ray Tracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| GPU Vendor | PowerVR | PowerVR |
| Memory | ||
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 25.6 | – |
| Memory type | LPDDR3 | LPDDR3 |
| Memory options (GB) | 2 | 1 |
| Media Engine | ||
| Hardware Acceleration | H264 | H264 |
| Semiconductor Tech | ||
| Process node (nm) | 20 | 20 |
| Transistors (billion) | 3 | 2 |
| Die size (mm²) | 128 | 89 |
| Part number | APL1021 | APL1011 |
| Release date | 2014-10-16 | 2014-09-09 |