Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 vs Apple A9
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 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 712 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.384 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 712
+15%
330570
Apple A9
285954
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 712
448
Apple A9
+39%
623
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 712
+50%
1441
Apple A9
957
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 712
+54%
384
Apple A9
249
CPU
2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 360 Gold (Cortex-A75)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 360 Silver (Cortex-A55)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 360 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
2300 MHz
Frequency
1850 MHz
8
Cores
2
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
384 KB
L2 cache
3 MB
0
L3 cache
0
10 nm
Process
14 nm
3
Transistor count
2
5 W
TDP
5 W
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 616
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
750 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
2
Execution units
6
128
Shading units
32
8
Max size
4
0.384 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 DSP
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
UFS 2.1
Storage type
NVMe
3360 x 1440
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
X15
Modem
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 15
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
No
5G support
No
Up to 800 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Feb 2019
Announced
Sep 2015
Mid range
Class
Flagship
SDM712
Model number
APL1022
