Comparison of Apple A9X and Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

Attribute	Apple A9X ×	Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	Qualcomm
Series	Apple A series	Qualcomm Snapdragon
Model	Apple A9X	Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	8
Frequency (GHz)	2.16	1.7
CPU Threads	2	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	2x Twister	2x Cortex-A77
B core	-	6x Cortex-A55
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.26	2
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	2.26	-
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.7
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	Decode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	Decode
VP8	Decode	Decode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	No	Decode
AVC	Decode	Decode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Apple A9X	Qualcomm Adreno 619L
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.65	0.95
Generation	6	6
DirectX Version	-	12.1
Execution units	12	0
Shader	384	0
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	4	-
Max. displays	1	0
GPU Release date (year)	2015	2020
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR4-3200	LPDDR4X-1866
Max. Memory (GB)	4	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2015	2020
Technology (Nm)	16	8
Virtualization	none	none
L2-Cache (MB)	3	-
Architecture	A9X	Kryo 560
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	8	-
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	499	-
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	652	650
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,198	1,800
AnTuTu 8 benchmark	272,103	310,000