Comparison of Apple A9 and Samsung Exynos 7904

Attribute	Apple A9 ×	Samsung Exynos 7904 ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	Samsung
Series	Apple A series	Samsung Exynos
Model	Apple A9	Samsung Exynos 7904
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	8
Frequency (GHz)	1.85	1.6
CPU Threads	2	8
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	2x Twister	2x Cortex-A73
B core	-	6x Cortex-A53
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	-	1.8
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.8
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	Decode
VP8	Decode	Decode / Encode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	Decode	Decode / Encode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Apple A9	ARM Mali-G71 MP2
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.65	0.77
Generation	6	0
DirectX Version	-	11
Execution units	6	2
Shader	192	32
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	4	2
Max. displays	1	1
GPU Release date (year)	2015	2016
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR4-3200	LPDDR4-1866
Max. Memory (GB)	2	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	1	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2015	2019
Technology (Nm)	16	14
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	4	-
L2-Cache (MB)	3	-
Architecture	A9	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	53
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	558	268
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,024	987
AnTuTu 8 benchmark	172,160	104,389