Apple A9 vs Apple A8X

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Apple A9 Apple A8X

We compared the phone version of 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. the tablet version cores 0 Apple A8X . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +42%

623

Apple A8X

436

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +4%

957

Apple A8X

916

Apple A9

VS

Apple A8X

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

-

1850 MHz

Frequency

-

2

Cores

-

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

-

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

-

650 MHz

GPU frequency

-

6

Execution units

-

32

Shading units

-

4

Max size

-

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

-

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

-

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Apple M9

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

-

NVMe

Storage type

-

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

-

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

-

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

-

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

-

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

-

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

-

No

5G support

-

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

-

4.2

Bluetooth

-

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

-

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

-

Flagship

Class

-

APL1022

Model number

-

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