Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

VS

Apple A9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 . 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 845 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.727 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +56%

448489

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +10%

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

566

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +116%

2075

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 +191%

727

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)

1850 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 630

650 MHz

GPU frequency

710 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

256

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.727 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

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

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 685

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

X20

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 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

Dec 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

SDM845

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

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