Samsung Exynos 7872 vs Apple A9

VS

Samsung Exynos 7872

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 7872 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

Samsung Exynos 7872 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0384 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 3.7GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7872

38

Apple A9 +555%

249

Samsung Exynos 7872

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2000 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

6

Cores

2

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP1

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

1200 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

16

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.0384 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

3.7 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2018

Announced

Sep 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

S5E7872

Model number

APL1022

Samsung Exynos 7872

Official page

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