Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 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 685 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (17GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.2432 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +23%

354293

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

475

Apple A9 +31%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 +58%

1517

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

243

Apple A9 +2%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

VS

Apple A9

CPU

4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2800 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

6 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 610

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

950 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.2432 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

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.2

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, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X11

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 390 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 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

Mar 2023

Announced

Sep 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM6225-AD

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Official page

-

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