Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 4090MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 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 4 Advantages

Higher Frequency (4090MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 +973%

3070269

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 4.09 GHz – Oryon
6x 2.8 GHz – Oryon

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

4090 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 760

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

935 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

-

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

32

24

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4

-

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon

NPU

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

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

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 X80

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

-

Download speed

Up to 450 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

Oct 2024

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1022

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