Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

VS

Apple A9 Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 . 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 )

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +23%

354293

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +31%

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

475

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +58%

1517

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +2%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

243

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

6 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

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

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Hexagon 686

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, 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

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Mar 2023

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1022

Model number

SM6225-AD

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

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