Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

VS

Apple A9 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . 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 9W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5675 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2450MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +18%

339384

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +50%

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

415

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +58%

1519

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +127%

567

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

1850 MHz

Frequency

2450 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 540

650 MHz

GPU frequency

739 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

384

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5675 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Hexagon 682

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 682

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X16

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 16

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Nov 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

MSM8998

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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