Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 765

VS

Apple A9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 765

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 +131%

576

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 765

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

1x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 475 Prime (Cortex-A76)
1x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 475 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 475 Silver (Cortex-A55)

1850 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 620

650 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

192

4

Max size

12

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 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

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 696

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 3.0

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3200 x 1800

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X52

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 3700 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Dec 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

SM7250-AA

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 765

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