Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A9
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic 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
Apple A15 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)
Released 6 years late
Apple A9 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+351%
1290037
Apple A9
285954
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+274%
2333
Apple A9
623
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+499%
5741
Apple A9
957
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+587%
1712
Apple A9
249
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
3230 MHz
Frequency
1850 MHz
6
Cores
2
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
12 MB
L2 cache
3 MB
-
L3 cache
0
5 nm
Process
14 nm
15
Transistor count
2
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
5
Execution units
6
128
Shading units
32
6
Max size
4
1.7126 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
-
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, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Sep 2015
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
APL1022
