Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

VS

Apple A9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 . 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 6W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0368 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2960MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +122%

636716

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +59%

996

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +168%

2569

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +316%

1036

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

1850 MHz

Frequency

2960 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.7

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 640

650 MHz

GPU frequency

675 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

384

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.0368 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

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Apr 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

SM8150-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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