Apple A11 Bionic
vs
Apple A8

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Apple A11 Bionic and Apple A8 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 10 nm (10 nm vs 20 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 2390 MHz (2390 MHz vs 1.4 GHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: September 2017 (September 2017 vs September 2014)

Basic

Apple
Label Name
Apple
September 2017
Launch Date
September 2014
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
APL1W72
Model Name
A8
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Architecture
Arm 64
6
Cores
2
10 nm
Technology
20 nm
2390 MHz
Frequency
1.4 GHz
4.3
Transistor count
-

GPU Specifications

Apple A11 GPU
GPU name
PowerVR GX6450
1066 MHz
GPU frequency
450 MHz
0.4093 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.115 TFLOPS
64
Shading units
-
3
Execution units
-
2.1
OpenCL version
-
1.0
Vulkan version
-
2436 x 1125
Max display resolution
-
12
DirectX version
-

Connectivity

Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
-
LTE Cat. 12
4G support
-
No
5G support
-
5.0
Bluetooth
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5
Wi-Fi
-
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
-

Memory Specifications

LPDDR4X
Memory type
-
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
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4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
-

Miscellaneous

8 MB
L2 Cache
-
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
-
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
-
NVMe
Storage type
-
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
-
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
-
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
-
8 W
TDP
-
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
-
Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
-

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
A11 Bionic
1097 +168%
A8
410
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
A11 Bionic
2357 +299%
A8
590
Geekbench 5 Single Core
A11 Bionic
897 +223%
A8
278
Geekbench 5 Multi Core
A11 Bionic
2236 +338%
A8
510