Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 vs Apple A9
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 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 1 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0138 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)
Released 6 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
+108%
595452
Apple A9
285954
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
+55%
969
Apple A9
623
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
+191%
2786
Apple A9
957
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
+306%
1.013 TFLOPS
Apple A9
0.249 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
1x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
2400 MHz
Frequency
1850 MHz
8
Cores
2
ARMv9-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
3 MB
L2 cache
3 MB
-
L3 cache
0
4 nm
Process
14 nm
-
Transistor count
2
5 W
TDP
5 W
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 644
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
660 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
2
Execution units
6
384
Shading units
32
16
Max size
4
1.0138 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
1.2
12.1
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
-
-
-
-
-
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
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 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
-
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
X62
Modem
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 4400 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, SBAS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
May 2022
Announced
Sep 2015
Mid range
Class
Flagship
SM7450-AB
Model number
APL1022
