Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 vs Apple A9

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 vs. 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3667 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +49%

428143

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +48%

926

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +122%

2128

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +46%

366

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2200 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 613

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

955 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

6

96

Shading units

32

-

Max size

4

0.3667 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X61

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 900 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2023

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM4450

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Official page

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