Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

VS

Apple A9 Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +114%

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

291

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +27%

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

750

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +62%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

2

Cores

6

3 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

28 nm

2

Transistor count

1

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 510

650 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

128

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 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 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Hexagon V56

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X8

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Feb 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

MSM8956

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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