Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs Apple A9

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 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 450 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1800MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

153310

Apple A9 +86%

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

169

Apple A9 +268%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

763

Apple A9 +25%

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

115

Apple A9 +116%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

VS

Apple A9

CPU

8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

1800 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

3 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

600 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

96

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

7.46 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 546

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X9

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2017

Announced

Sep 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

SDM450

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

Official page

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