Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 vs Apple A9

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 Apple A9

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.284 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (17GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 1850MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 14nm)

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 +8%

310059

Apple A9

285954

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

414

Apple A9 +50%

623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 +51%

1447

Apple A9

957

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 +14%

284

Apple A9

249

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

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Apple A9

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

2x 1.85 GHz – Twister

2400 MHz

Frequency

1850 MHz

8

Cores

2

-

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

6 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 610

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

1110 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

1

Execution units

6

128

Shading units

32

8

Max size

4

0.284 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12.1

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 686

NPU

Apple M9

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M9

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X11

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9635M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 390 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2021

Announced

Sep 2015

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM6225

Model number

APL1022

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

Official page

-

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