Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 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 678 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3244 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (11nm vs 14nm)

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +19%

340607

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +9%

685

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +63%

1568

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 +30%

324

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2200 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

256 KB

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

11 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 612

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

845 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

6

96

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.3244 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 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 685

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 192MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

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

X12

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

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

Dec 2020

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6150-AC

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 678

Official page

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