Product Compare

Apple A9 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 1.85 GHz – Twister 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Frequency 1850 MHz 3200 MHz
Cores 2 8
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB
L2 cache 0 2.75 MB
L3 cache 0 8 MB
Process 14 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 2
TDP 5 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Graphics
GPU name PowerVR GT7600 Adreno 825
GPU frequency 650 MHz 1150 MHz
Execution units 6
Shading units 32
Vulkan version 1.1
OpenCL version 1.2
DirectX version 11
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR4 LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 1333 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 14.9 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Apple M9
Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
Max display resolution 2048 x 1536 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 6
5G support No Yes
Download speed Up to 450 Mbps Up to 4200 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 7
Bluetooth 4.2 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Sep 2015 Apr 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1022 SM8735
Official page Official Link ↗
AI
NPU Hexagon
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 285954 2186467
Geekbench 6 Single Core 623 2159
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 957 7227