Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

VS

Apple A9 Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.3721 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9

285954

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +183%

810488

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9

623

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +84%

1151

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9

957

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +248%

3336

FP32 (float)

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +451%

1372

Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

1850 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

10.3

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Adreno 650

650 MHz

GPU frequency

670 MHz

6

Execution units

2

32

Shading units

512

4

Max size

16

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.3721 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

2750 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

Hexagon 698

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 698

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

X55

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Jan 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

SM8250-AC

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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