Apple A9 vs MediaTek MT6580
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6580 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A9 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.004 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 4.3GB/s)
Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1300MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple A9
+6125%
0.249 TFLOPS
MediaTek MT6580
0.004 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Architecture
4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A7
1850 MHz
Frequency
1300 MHz
2
Cores
4
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
-
L1 cache
3 MB
L2 cache
512 KB
0
L3 cache
-
14 nm
Process
28 nm
2
Transistor count
1
5 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
Mali-400 MP2
650 MHz
GPU frequency
500 MHz
6
Execution units
2
32
Shading units
2
4
Max size
2
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.004 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
-
1.2
OpenCL version
1.2
11
DirectX version
10
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR3
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
533 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
1x 32 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
4.3 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M9
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.0
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
1440 x 720
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 13MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
1080p at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
MP3, MP4, WAV
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 5
No
5G support
No
Up to 450 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
4
4.2
Bluetooth
4.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Info
Sep 2015
Announced
Jan 2016
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1022
Model number
MT6580
