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Apple A9
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
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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
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