Product Compare

Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 1.85 GHz – Twister 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Frequency 1850 MHz 2960 MHz
Cores 2 8
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 0 0
L3 cache 0 0
Process 14 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 2 6.7
TDP 5 W 6 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Graphics
GPU name PowerVR GT7600 Adreno 640
GPU frequency 650 MHz 675 MHz
Execution units 6 2
Shading units 32 384
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 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 34.13 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Apple M9 Hexagon 690
Storage type NVMe UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Max display resolution 2048 x 1536 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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. 20
5G support No Yes
Download speed Up to 450 Mbps Up to 5000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 1240 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6
Bluetooth 4.2 5.1
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Announced Sep 2015 Apr 2019
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1022 SM8150-AC
Official page Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 285954 636716
Geekbench 6 Single Core 623 996
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 957 2569
FP32 (float) 249 1036