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Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 1.85 GHz – Twister 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 240 Gold4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 240 Silver
Frequency 1850 MHz 1800 MHz
Cores 2 8
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 64 KB
L2 cache 0
L3 cache 0
Process 14 nm 11 nm
Transistor count 2
TDP 5 W 3 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Graphics
GPU name PowerVR GT7600 Adreno 610
GPU frequency 650 MHz 600 MHz
Execution units 6 1
Shading units 32 128
Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
OpenCL version 1.2 2.0
DirectX version 11 12.1
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR4 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 1333 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 13.91 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Apple M9 Hexagon 683
Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 2048 x 1536 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 1080p at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 6 LTE Cat. 13
5G support No No
Download speed Up to 450 Mbps Up to 390 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6
Bluetooth 4.2 5.1
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Sep 2015 Jan 2020
Class Flagship Low end
Model number APL1022 SM4250-AA
Official page Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 285954 195931
Geekbench 6 Single Core 623 272
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 957 999
FP32 (float) 249 153