Comparison of Apple A9 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 670

Attribute	Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 ×	Apple A9 ×
General Information
Brand	Qualcomm	Apple
Series	Qualcomm Snapdragon	Apple A series
Model	Qualcomm Snapdragon 670	Apple A9
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	2
Frequency (GHz)	1.7	1.85
CPU Threads	8	2
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	2x Cortex-A75	2x Twister
B core	6x Cortex-A55	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2	-
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	1.7	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode	Decode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode	No
VP8	Decode	Decode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	Decode	No
AVC	Decode	Decode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Qualcomm Adreno 615	Apple A9
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.7	0.65
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	0.7	-
Generation	6	6
DirectX Version	12.1	-
Execution units	0	6
Shader	256	192
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	-	4
Max. displays	0	1
GPU Release date (year)	2018	2015
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR4X-1866	LPDDR4-3200
Max. Memory (GB)	-	2
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	1
Technical details
Release date (year)	2018	2015
Technology (Nm)	10	16
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	-	4
L2-Cache (MB)	-	3
Architecture	ARM Cortex-A75/Cortex-A55	A9
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	-	5
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	358	250
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	333	558
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,296	1,024
AnTuTu 8 benchmark	175,698	172,160