Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Apple A9
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 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 8s Gen 4 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)
Released 9 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+664%
2186467
Apple A9
285954
CPU
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
3200 MHz
Frequency
1850 MHz
8
Cores
2
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
2.75 MB
L2 cache
3 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
0
4 nm
Process
14 nm
-
Transistor count
2
-
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 825
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
1150 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
-
Execution units
6
-
Shading units
32
24
Max size
4
-
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4
4800 MHz
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
76.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Modem
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Connectivity
-
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 4200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
5
6.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Apr 2025
Announced
Sep 2015
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8735
Model number
APL1022
