Apple A9 vs Apple A15 Bionic

VS

Apple A9 Apple A15 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Released 6 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Apple A15 Bionic +351%

1290037

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Apple A15 Bionic +274%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Apple A15 Bionic +499%

5741

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Apple A15 Bionic +587%

1712

Apple A9

VS

Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

1850 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

2

Cores

6

3 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

15

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

6

Execution units

5

32

Shading units

128

4

Max size

6

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

APL1W07

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