Apple A9 vs Samsung Exynos 1280

VS

Apple A9

Samsung Exynos 1280

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . 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)

Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.487 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (17GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Samsung Exynos 1280 +68%

481288

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Samsung Exynos 1280 +36%

852

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Samsung Exynos 1280 +101%

1927

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Samsung Exynos 1280 +95%

487

Apple A9

VS

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

6

Execution units

4

32

Shading units

48

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.487 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2550 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1840 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Mar 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

S5E8825

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1280

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