Samsung Exynos 1480 vs Apple A9

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Samsung Exynos 1480 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2750MHz Samsung Exynos 1480 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 1480 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2750MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 1480 +153%

723950

Apple A9

285954

Samsung Exynos 1480

VS

Apple A9

CPU

4x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2750 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Samsung Xclipse 530

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

1300 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

-

Execution units

6

-

Shading units

32

12

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

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

-

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 5100 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 1280 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2024

Announced

Sep 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E8845

Model number

APL1022

Samsung Exynos 1480

Official page

-

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