Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 vs Apple A9
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 vs. 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.727 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Apple A9 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
+56%
448489
Apple A9
285954
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
566
Apple A9
+10%
623
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
+116%
2075
Apple A9
957
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
+191%
0.727 TFLOPS
Apple A9
0.249 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
2800 MHz
Frequency
1850 MHz
8
Cores
2
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
256 KB
L2 cache
3 MB
0
L3 cache
0
10 nm
Process
14 nm
3
Transistor count
2
9 W
TDP
5 W
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 630
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
710 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
2
Execution units
6
256
Shading units
32
8
Max size
4
0.727 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
1.2
12.1
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
1866 MHz
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
29.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon 685
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
UFS 2.1
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
1x 192MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
-
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
X20
Modem
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
No
5G support
No
Up to 1200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Dec 2017
Announced
Sep 2015
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SDM845
Model number
APL1022
