Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 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

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

291

Apple A9 +114%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

750

Apple A9 +27%

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

Apple A9 +62%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

1800 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

6

Cores

2

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

256 KB

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

28 nm

Process

14 nm

1

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 510

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

600 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.1536 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

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon V56

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X8

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 100 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2015

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8956

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

Official page

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