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Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 1.85 GHz – Twister 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Frequency 1850 MHz 2000 MHz
Cores 2 8
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB
L2 cache 0
L3 cache 0
Process 14 nm 8 nm
Transistor count 2
TDP 5 W 6 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Graphics
GPU name PowerVR GT7600 Adreno 619
GPU frequency 650 MHz 950 MHz
Execution units 6 2
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 2133 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Apple M9 Hexagon 692
Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Max display resolution 2048 x 1536 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 6 LTE Cat. 18
5G support No Yes
Download speed Up to 450 Mbps Up to 2500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 900 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 Jun 2020
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number APL1022 SM6350
Official page Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 285954 365230
Geekbench 6 Single Core 623 797
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 957 1900
FP32 (float) 249 486