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Comparison of Apple A9 and Apple A9X [S]ave

Attribute
Apple A9X ×
Apple A9 ×
General Information
BrandAppleApple
SeriesApple A seriesApple A series
ModelApple A9XApple A9
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores22
Frequency (GHz)2.161.85
CPU Threads22
Core architecturenormalnormal
Hyperthreading--
Overclocking--
A core2x Twister2x Twister
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)2.26-
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)2.26-
Encryption
AES-NI++
Hardware codec support
JPEGDecode / EncodeDecode / Encode
h264Decode / EncodeDecode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)NoNo
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)NoNo
VP8DecodeDecode
AV1NoNo
VC-1DecodeDecode
VP9NoNo
AVCDecodeDecode
Internal Graphics
GPU nameApple A9XApple A9
GPU frequency (GHz)0.650.65
Generation66
Execution units126
Shader384192
Max. GPU Memory (GB)44
Max. displays11
GPU Release date (year)20152015
Memory And PCIe
Memory typeLPDDR4-3200LPDDR4-3200
Max. Memory (GB)42
ECC--
Memory channels21
Technical details
Release date (year)20152015
Technology (Nm)1616
Virtualization
  • none
  • none
L3-Cache (MB)-4
L2-Cache (MB)33
ArchitectureA9XA9
Instruction set (ISA)ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)85
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)499250
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)652558
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)1,1981,024
AnTuTu 8 benchmark272,103172,160



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