Apple A8 vs AMD E1-6015

Comparative analysis of Apple A8 and AMD E1-6015 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A8

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 20 nm vs 28 nm
Manufacturing process technology 20 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD E1-6015

  • 1024x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
L1 cache 128 KB vs 64 KB instruction + 64 KB data (per core)

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Apple A8
CPU 2: AMD E1-6015

Name Apple A8 AMD E1-6015
PassMark - Single thread mark 914
PassMark - CPU mark 1517
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 393
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 393
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 985
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 985
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2454
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2454
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.146

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple A8 AMD E1-6015

Essentials

Architecture codename Typhoon Beema
Launch date 9 Sep 2014 Q2'15
OS Support iOS 8.0, iOS 12.5.7, iPadOS 15.7.4, audioOS 11.0, tvOS 9.0, tvOS 16.2
Place in performance rating 2368 2254
Processor Number APL1011 E1-6015
Family AMD E1-Series for Notebooks
Vertical segment Mobile

Performance

Base frequency 1.1 GHz 1400 MHz
L1 cache 64 KB instruction + 64 KB data (per core) 128 KB
L2 cache 1 MB (shared) 1024 KB
L3 cache 4 MB
Manufacturing process technology 20 nm 28 nm
Maximum frequency 1.5 GHz
Number of cores 2 2
Number of threads 2 2
Transistor count 2 billion
64 bit support

Memory

Max memory channels 1 1
Maximum memory bandwidth 12.8 GB/s
Maximum memory size 2 GB
Supported memory types LPDDR3-1600 DDR3L

Graphics

Execution Units 16
Graphics base frequency 533 MHz
iGPU core count 4
Processor graphics Custom PowerVR Series 6XT Radeon R2 series
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)

Compatibility

Sockets supported BGA769 (FT3b)

Peripherals

PCI Express revision 2.0

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)