Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 4000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Advantages

Higher Frequency (4000MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 +995%

3133570

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 4 GHz – Cortex-X5
6x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A730

1850 MHz

Frequency

4000 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

3 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 760

650 MHz

GPU frequency

-

6

Execution units

-

32

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR6

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

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, AV1, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

-

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

Snapdragon X80

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Oct 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

-

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