Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 vs Apple A9

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2630MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2630MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 +203%

866863

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

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Apple A9

CPU

1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2630 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 720

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

-

GPU frequency

650 MHz

-

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

32

16

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3360 x 1600

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X63

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 5000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 1600 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2023

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM7550-AB

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Official page

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