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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus vs Apple A9

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver) 2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Frequency 2960 MHz 1850 MHz
Cores 8 2
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 512 KB 64 KB
L2 cache 0 0
L3 cache 0 0
Process 7 nm 14 nm
Transistor count 6.7 2
TDP 6 W 5 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Graphics
GPU name Adreno 640 PowerVR GT7600
GPU frequency 675 MHz 650 MHz
Execution units 2 6
Shading units 384 32
Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 1.2
DirectX version 12.1 11
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR4
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 1333 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Apple M9
Storage type UFS 3.0 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2048 x 1536
Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 6
5G support Yes No
Download speed Up to 5000 Mbps Up to 450 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 1240 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.0 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced Jul 2019 Sep 2015
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8150-AC APL1022
Official page Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core 1040 623
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 2865 957
FP32 (float) 1036 249