Comparison of Apple A9 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Attribute	Apple A9 ×	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	Qualcomm
Series	Apple A series	Qualcomm Snapdragon
Model	Apple A9	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	8
Frequency (GHz)	1.85	1.6
CPU Threads	2	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	2x Twister	4x Cortex-A73
B core	-	4x Cortex-A53
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	-	1.8
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.6
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode
h264	Decode	Decode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	Decode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	Decode	Decode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	No	Decode
AVC	Decode	No
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Apple A9	Qualcomm Adreno 509
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.65	0.72
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	-	0.72
Generation	6	5
DirectX Version	-	12.1
Execution units	6	0
Shader	192	128
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	4	-
Max. displays	1	0
GPU Release date (year)	2015	2017
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR4-3200	LPDDR4-1333
Max. Memory (GB)	2	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	1	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2015	2017
Technology (Nm)	16	14
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	4	-
L2-Cache (MB)	3	-
Architecture	A9	ARM Cortex-A73/Cortex-A53
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	5	-
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	250	184
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	558	268
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,024	1,137
AnTuTu 8 benchmark	172,160	149,536