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Comparison of Apple A9 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 [S]ave

Attribute
Apple A9
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
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General Information
BrandAppleQualcomm
SeriesApple A seriesQualcomm Snapdragon
ModelApple A9Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores28
Frequency (GHz)1.851.6
CPU Threads28
Core architecturenormalnormal
Hyperthreading--
Overclocking--
A core2x Twister4x 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
JPEGDecode / EncodeDecode
h264DecodeDecode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)NoDecode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)NoNo
VP8DecodeDecode
AV1NoNo
VC-1DecodeDecode
VP9NoDecode
AVCDecodeNo
Internal Graphics
GPU nameApple A9Qualcomm Adreno 509
GPU frequency (GHz)0.650.72
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)-0.72
Generation65
DirectX Version-12.1
Execution units60
Shader192128
Max. GPU Memory (GB)4-
Max. displays10
GPU Release date (year)20152017
Memory And PCIe
Memory typeLPDDR4-3200LPDDR4-1333
Max. Memory (GB)2-
ECC--
Memory channels12
Technical details
Release date (year)20152017
Technology (Nm)1614
Virtualization
  • none
  • none
L3-Cache (MB)4-
L2-Cache (MB)3-
ArchitectureA9ARM 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)250184
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)558268
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)1,0241,137
AnTuTu 8 benchmark172,160149,536



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