Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

VS

Apple A9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.384 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +36%

389314

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +21%

756

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +86%

1783

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +54%

384

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)

1850 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

8 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 618

650 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.384 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

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

384 kHz/32 bit

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X15

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 15

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 800 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

SM7125

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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