Apple A17 Pro vs Apple A9

VS

Apple A17 Pro Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3780MHz Apple A17 Pro 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 A17 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1472 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3780MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years late

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A17 Pro +441%

1549189

Apple A9

285954

FP32 (float)

Apple A17 Pro +762%

2147

Apple A9

249

Apple A17 Pro

VS

Apple A9

CPU

2x 3.78 GHz – Everest
4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

3780 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

6

Cores

2

16 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

3 nm

Process

14 nm

19

Transistor count

2

8 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A17 GPU

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

6

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

2.1472 TFLOPS

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

Neural Engine

NPU

Apple M9

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2796 x 1290

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 48MP

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, AV1, 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

Snapdragon X70

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 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2023

Announced

Sep 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1V02

Model number

APL1022

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