Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3667 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +49%

428143

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +48%

926

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +122%

2128

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 +46%

366

Apple A9

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

1850 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 613

650 MHz

GPU frequency

955 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

96

4

Max size

-

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3667 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

Snapdragon X61

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 900 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Jun 2023

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1022

Model number

SM4450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

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