Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

VS

Apple A9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 5.3W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.5128 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +291%

1118907

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +167%

1664

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +321%

4030

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +908%

2512

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

1850 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

3 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

5.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 730

650 MHz

GPU frequency

818 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

768

4

Max size

24

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.5128 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

Snapdragon X65

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Dec 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

SM8450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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