Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 3300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.7308 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (77GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3300MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +627%

2079542

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +250%

2181

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +657%

7250

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +1799%

4730

Apple A9

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520

1850 MHz

Frequency

3300 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

4 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 750

650 MHz

GPU frequency

903 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

1536

4

Max size

24

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

4.7308 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

77 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Oct 2023

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

SM8650-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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