Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs Apple A9

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2150MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 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 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3194 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2150MHz vs 1850MHz)

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

260148

Apple A9 +9%

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

323

Apple A9 +92%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

827

Apple A9 +15%

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 +28%

319

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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Apple A9

CPU

2x 2.15 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.593 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2150 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

4

Cores

2

1 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

11 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

624 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

256

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.3194 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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

X12

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Official page

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