Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 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 636 Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1800MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

Apple A9 +29%

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

295

Apple A9 +111%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 +13%

1088

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

Apple A9 +35%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

Apple A9

CPU

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

1800 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

720 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2017

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SDM636

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

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