Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple A9
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Frequency
3000 MHz
1850 MHz
Cores
8
2
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
8 MB
0
Process
4 nm
14 nm
TDP
6 W
5 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
—
64 KB
Transistor count
—
2
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 735
PowerVR GT7600
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
650 MHz
Execution units
2
6
Shading units
256
32
Vulkan version
1.3
1.1
OpenCL version
2.0
1.2
DirectX version
12.1
11
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
1333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
67.2 Gbit/s
14.9 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
Apple M9
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2048 x 1536
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
LTE Cat. 6
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 6500 Mbps
Up to 450 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
5.4
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Mar 2024
Sep 2015
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8635
APL1022
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,490,645
285,954
Geekbench 6
2,019
623
Geekbench 6
5,570
957
FP32 (float)
1,689
249
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.