Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 670

VS

Apple A9 Qualcomm Snapdragon 670

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3584 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2000MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +14%

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670

250565

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +62%

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670

384

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 +30%

1250

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 +43%

358

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Kryo 360 Gold (Cortex-A75)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 360 Silver (Cortex-A55)

1850 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 615

650 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3584 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Hexagon 685

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 685

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X12 LTE

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

SDM670

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670

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