Apple A9 vs MediaTek MT6739
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 4 cores 1500MHz MediaTek MT6739 . 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 0.0091 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (14.9GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)
Higher Frequency (1850MHz vs 1500MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 28nm)
MediaTek MT6739 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A9
+378%
285954
MediaTek MT6739
59755
FP32 (float)
Apple A9
+2666%
0.249 TFLOPS
MediaTek MT6739
0.009 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Architecture
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53
1850 MHz
Frequency
1500 MHz
2
Cores
4
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
3 MB
L2 cache
-
0
L3 cache
-
14 nm
Process
28 nm
2
Transistor count
1
5 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
PowerVR GE8100
650 MHz
GPU frequency
570 MHz
6
Execution units
1
32
Shading units
8
4
Max size
3
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0091 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
1.2
OpenCL version
1.2
11
DirectX version
10
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR3
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
667 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
1x 32 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
6.4 Gbit/s
AI
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M9
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
1440 x 720
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 13MP, 2x 8MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
1080p at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Modem
MT6177M
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 4
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
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Sep 2015
Announced
Sep 2017
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1022
Model number
MT6739
