Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

VS

Apple A9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 . 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 0.024 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 5.34GB/s)

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +109%

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

136588

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +937%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

24

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

1400 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

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 308

650 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

24

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.024 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

667 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.34 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

1280 x 800

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1022

Model number

MSM8917

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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