Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs Apple A9

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 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 801 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1850MHz)

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

Apple A9 +126%

285954

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

Apple A9 +68%

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

VS

Apple A9

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2500 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

4

Cores

2

2 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

28 nm

Process

14 nm

1

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 330

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

578 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.148 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 2048

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2014

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8974 v3

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

Official page

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