Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 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 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6.3W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +436%

1534534

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +221%

2004

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +458%

5344

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +1297%

3481

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

VS

Apple A9

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

3200 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv9-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

6.3 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 740

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

680 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

6

1280

Shading units

32

24

Max size

4

3.4816 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)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.2

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2022

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8550-AB

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Official page

-

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