Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

VS

Apple A9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . 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 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +198%

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +4%

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

916

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 506

650 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

96

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.5 GB/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

MSM8953 Pro

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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