Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 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 7s Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.4813 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 +109%

598370

Apple A9

285954

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 +93%

481

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

VS

Apple A9

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2400 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 710

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

940 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

-

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

32

16

Max size

4

0.4813 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 200MP

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

Snapdragon X62

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 1600 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM7435-AB

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Official page

-

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