Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

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Apple A9 Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 20nm)

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3072 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +188%

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

216

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +102%

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

473

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 1.5 GHz Cortex A53
4x 2.0 GHz Cortex A57

1850 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

20 nm

2

Transistor count

2.5

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 430

650 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3072 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Hexagon V56

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1 x 55MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X10

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 9

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Apr 2014

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

MSM8994

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

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