Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 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 7 Plus Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.9184 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 +378%

1366982

Apple A9

285954

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 +1071%

2918

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

VS

Apple A9

CPU

1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A520

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2800 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

6 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

12 MB

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 732

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

950 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

6

768

Shading units

32

24

Max size

4

2.9184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4

4200 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X63 5G

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 5000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2024

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM7675

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3

Official page

-

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