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Apple A9
SOC
Apple
The Apple A9 is a SOC manufactured by Apple, built on Apple's officially announced Apple M9 process technology. This processor features a 2-core architecture design. The Thermal Design Power (TDP) is rated at 5 W. Overall specifications are targeted at mainstream high-performance application scenarios.
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Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Frequency
1850 MHz
Cores
2
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
64 KB
L2 cache
0
L3 cache
0
Process
14 nm
Transistor count
2
TDP
5 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
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GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
GPU frequency
650 MHz
Execution units
6
Shading units
32
Vulkan version
1.1
OpenCL version
1.2
DirectX version
11
Memory
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Memory Type
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
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Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
Storage type
NVMe
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
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4G support
LTE Cat. 6
5G support
No
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
Bluetooth
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
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Announced
Sep 2015
Class
Flagship
Model number
APL1022
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10 Single
285,954
Geekbench 6 Single
623
Geekbench 6 Multi
957
FP32 (float) Single
249