Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G 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 720G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.384 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2300MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +36%

389314

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +21%

756

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +86%

1783

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +54%

384

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2300 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

8 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 618

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)

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

384 kHz/32 bit

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

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2020

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM7125

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

Official page

-

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