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Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 . 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 11W)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2150MHz vs 1850MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
Apple A9 +9%
285954
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
260148
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A9 +92%
623
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
323
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A9 +15%
957
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
827
FP32 (float)
Apple A9
249
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +28%
319
VS

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Architecture
2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo
1850 MHz
Frequency
2150 MHz
2
Cores
4
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
3 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
-
14 nm
Process
14 nm
2
Transistor count
2
5 W
TDP
11 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
Adreno 530
650 MHz
GPU frequency
624 MHz
6
Execution units
1
32
Shading units
256
4
Max size
8
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3194 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
1.2
OpenCL version
2.0
11
DirectX version
11

Memory

LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR4
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Modem
X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
No
5G support
No
Up to 450 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2015
Announced
Nov 2015
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1022
Model number
MSM8996
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Official page

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