Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

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Apple A9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4224 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (17GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +28%

367439

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +12%

699

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +89%

1817

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 +69%

422

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver

1850 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

8 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 619

650 MHz

GPU frequency

825 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4224 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 800 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Jan 2021

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1022

Model number

SM4350

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480

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