Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 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 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.2021 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +158%

738889

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +81%

1128

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +242%

3277

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +382%

1202

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

VS

Apple A9

CPU

1x 2.84 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

2840 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

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

587 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

6

512

Shading units

32

16

Max size

4

1.2021 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

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, 4K at 60FPS

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

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2019

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8250-AB

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

Official page

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