Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

VS

Apple A9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 . 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 0.2432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (11nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 5W)

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +20%

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

236986

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +83%

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

339

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 +26%

1209

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +2%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

243

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

1850 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

11 nm

2

Transistor count

1.75

5 W

TDP

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 610

650 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2432 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

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 683

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

X11

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 390 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Jan 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

SM615

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662

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