Unisoc SC9863A vs Apple A9

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Unisoc SC9863A Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Unisoc SC9863A 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

Unisoc SC9863A Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0704 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Unisoc SC9863A

156960

Apple A9 +82%

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Unisoc SC9863A

165

Apple A9 +277%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Unisoc SC9863A

730

Apple A9 +31%

957

FP32 (float)

Unisoc SC9863A

70

Apple A9 +255%

249

Unisoc SC9863A

VS

Apple A9

CPU

4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 1.2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

1600 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

28 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

3 W

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GE8322

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

550 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

8

Execution units

6

8

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.0704 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1800 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

2160 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 16MP, 2x 5MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, 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

Nov 2018

Announced

Sep 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1022

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