Apple A9 vs Samsung Exynos 9610

VS

Apple A9

Samsung Exynos 9610

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Samsung Exynos 9610 . 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 0.0918 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 11.9GB/s)

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Samsung Exynos 9610 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +12%

285954

Samsung Exynos 9610

255002

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +66%

623

Samsung Exynos 9610

374

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Samsung Exynos 9610 +9%

1051

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +173%

249

Samsung Exynos 9610

91

Apple A9

VS

Samsung Exynos 9610

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

2

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP3

650 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

6

Execution units

3

32

Shading units

18

4

Max size

6

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0918 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

1600 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

11.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

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

Shannon 337

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 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

Mar 2018

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

S5E9610

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 9610

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