Apple A9

This is a processor manufactured using the TSMC 14nm process, announced on September 1, 2015. It features 2 cores, operates at a frequency of 1850MHz, has a TDP of 5W, and integrates the PowerVR GT7600 GPU.

CPU

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Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Frequency

1850 MHz

Cores

2

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

L1 cache

L2 cache

3 MB

L3 cache

0

Process

14 nm

Transistor count

2

TDP

5 W

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

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GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

GPU frequency

650 MHz

Execution units

6

Shading units

32

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

Vulkan version

1.1

OpenCL version

1.2

DirectX version

11

FLOPS

249.6 GFLOPS

Memory

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Memory type

LPDDR4

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

Bus

2x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

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Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

Storage type

NVMe

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

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4G support

LTE Cat. 6

5G support

No

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Wi-Fi

5

Bluetooth

4.2

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

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Announced

Sep 2015

Class

Flagship

Model number

APL1022

Rankings

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AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 8C @ 2200 MHz

308308

MediaTek Helio P95 8C @ 2200 MHz

301054

Samsung Exynos 8895 8C @ 2314 MHz

289336

Apple A9 2C @ 1850 MHz

285954

HiSilicon Kirin 960 8C @ 2360 MHz

278916

Unisoc Tiger T616 8C @ 2000 MHz

273888

Unisoc Tiger T618 8C @ 2000 MHz

273115

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 800 8C @ 2000 MHz

644

MediaTek Helio G95 8C @ 2050 MHz

638

MediaTek Helio G90 8C @ 2050 MHz

632

Apple A9 2C @ 1850 MHz

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 8C @ 2800 MHz

566

Samsung Exynos 9810 8C @ 2900 MHz

563

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 8C @ 2800 MHz

475

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Mediatek MT6799 Helio X30 C @

1006

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 8C @ 1800 MHz

999

Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 8C @ 2200 MHz

962

Apple A9 2C @ 1850 MHz

957

Samsung Exynos 7904 8C @ 1800 MHz

939

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 8C @ 2200 MHz

916

Apple A8X C @

916

FP32 (float)

Apple A10 Fusion 4C @ 2340 MHz

249

Samsung Exynos 8890 8C @ 2300 MHz

249

Apple A9 2C @ 1850 MHz

249

MediaTek Dimensity 700 8C @ 2200 MHz

243

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 8C @ 2000 MHz

243

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 8C @ 2000 MHz

243

MediaTek Dimensity 810 8C @ 2400 MHz

243

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