Apple A9 vs Apple A17 Pro

VS

Apple A9 Apple A17 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro . 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 8W)

Apple A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Apple A17 Pro +441%

1549189

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Apple A17 Pro +762%

2147

Apple A9

VS

Apple A17 Pro

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

1850 MHz

Frequency

3780 MHz

2

Cores

6

3 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

3 nm

2

Transistor count

19

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Apple A17 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

6

Execution units

6

32

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1472 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

35 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

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, AV1, 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

Snapdragon X70

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 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Sep 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

APL1V02

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