Apple A9 vs Samsung Exynos 850

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Apple A9 Samsung Exynos 850

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 850 . 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 0.0394 TFLOPS )

Samsung Exynos 850 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +44%

285954

Samsung Exynos 850

197221

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +179%

623

Samsung Exynos 850

223

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +9%

957

Samsung Exynos 850

871

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +538%

249

Samsung Exynos 850

39

Apple A9

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Samsung Exynos 850

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

8 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G52 MP1

650 MHz

GPU frequency

820 MHz

6

Execution units

1

32

Shading units

24

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0394 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

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 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

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 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

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

May 2020

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1022

Model number

S5E3830

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 850

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