Samsung Exynos 9825 vs Apple A9

VS

Samsung Exynos 9825

Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 9825 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 9825 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6515 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (33.4GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 9825 +133%

668347

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 9825 +7%

672

Apple A9

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 9825 +146%

2356

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 9825 +161%

651

Apple A9

249

Samsung Exynos 9825

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 2.73 GHz – M4
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A75
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2730 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

14 nm

8.5

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP12

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

754 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

12

Execution units

6

36

Shading units

32

12

Max size

4

0.6515 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

33.4 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Exynos 5100

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 20

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 316 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2019

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

S5E9825

Model number

APL1022

Samsung Exynos 9825

Official page

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