Apple A9 vs MediaTek MT6737

VS

Apple A9

MediaTek MT6737

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6737 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0208 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 7W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +341%

623

MediaTek MT6737

141

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +59%

957

MediaTek MT6737

600

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +1145%

249

MediaTek MT6737

20

Apple A9

VS

MediaTek MT6737

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

1300 MHz

2

Cores

4

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

28 nm

2

Transistor count

1

5 W

TDP

7 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-T720 MP2

650 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

8

4

Max size

3

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0208 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

1.1

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

640 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

1280 x 720

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

MT6169

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 4

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Jan 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

MT6737

-

Official page

MediaTek MT6737

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