Apple A9 vs Samsung Exynos 7870

VS

Apple A9 Samsung Exynos 7870

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1600MHz)

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +95%

285954

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +262%

623

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +93%

957

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +1031%

249

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

Apple A9

VS

Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

650 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Apple M9

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1022

Model number

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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