Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus vs Apple A9

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3100MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus 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 865 Plus Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.3721 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus +178%

796278

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus +86%

1163

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus +245%

3306

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus +451%

1372

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

VS

Apple A9

CPU

1x 3.1 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

3100 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

1 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

14 nm

10.3

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 650

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

670 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

6

512

Shading units

32

16

Max size

4

1.3721 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 698

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 698

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X55

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jul 2020

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8250-AB

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

Official page

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