Apple A9 vs Unisoc SC9863A

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Apple A9 Unisoc SC9863A

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 1600MHz Unisoc SC9863A . 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 0.0704 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Unisoc SC9863A Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +82%

285954

Unisoc SC9863A

156960

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +277%

623

Unisoc SC9863A

165

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +31%

957

Unisoc SC9863A

730

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +255%

249

Unisoc SC9863A

70

Apple A9

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Unisoc SC9863A

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 1.2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

28 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

PowerVR GE8322

650 MHz

GPU frequency

550 MHz

6

Execution units

8

32

Shading units

8

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0704 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 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

2160 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 5MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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. 7

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

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Nov 2018

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1022

Model number

-

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