Apple A9 vs Samsung Exynos 7420

VS

Apple A9 Samsung Exynos 7420

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A9 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.1976 TFLOPS )

Lower TDP (5W vs 7W)

Samsung Exynos 7420 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (24.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2100MHz vs 1850MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A9 +39%

285954

Samsung Exynos 7420

205159

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A9 +219%

623

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A9 +13%

957

Samsung Exynos 7420

840

FP32 (float)

Apple A9 +26%

249

Samsung Exynos 7420

197

Apple A9

VS

Samsung Exynos 7420

CPU

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

Architecture

4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A57
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

1850 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

2

Cores

8

3 MB

L2 cache

512 KB

0

L3 cache

-

14 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

7 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600

GPU name

Mali-T760 MP8

650 MHz

GPU frequency

772 MHz

6

Execution units

8

32

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1976 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

24.8 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M9

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M9

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2048 x 1536

Max display resolution

2560 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Modem

Shannon 333

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Apr 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1022

Model number

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7420

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