Apple A9 vs A10 Fusion
We compared the 2-core Apple A9 (PowerVR GT7600) with the newer 4-core A10 Fusion (PowerVR GT7600) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A9
- Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size than the A10 Fusion
- Has a smaller size transistor (14 versus 16 nm)
Pros of Apple A10 Fusion
- Has 2 more cores
- Announced 1-year later
- Shows significantly better (up to 48%) AnTuTu 8 score – 253K vs 171K
- Higher GPU frequency (~38%)
- 26% higher CPU clock speed (2340 vs 1850 MHz)
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 70699 | 47633 |
| GPU | 36687 | 78628 |
| Memory | 31959 | 33145 |
| UX | 35338 | 24576 |
| Total score | 171225 | 253483 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 53.4 Mpixels/s | 65.95 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 9.04 images/s | 12.5 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 21.9 words/s | 27.5 words/s |
| Machine learning | 26.3 images/s | 29.55 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 12.2 images/s | 15.3 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.34 Mnodes/s | 1.83 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 313 Krows/s | 426.85 Krows/s |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Apple A9 and A10 FusionCPU
| Architecture | 2x 1.85 GHz – Twister | 2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane 2x 0 GHz – Zephyr |
| Cores | 2 | 4 |
| Frequency | 1850 MHz | 2340 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | - | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | 4 MB |
| Process | 14 nanometers | 16 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 2 billion | 3.3 billion |
| TDP | 5 W | 5 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | PowerVR GT7600 | PowerVR GT7600 |
| Architecture | Rogue | Rogue |
| GPU frequency | 650 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Execution units | 6 | 6 |
| Shading units | 192 | 196 |
| FLOPS | - | 115 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 11 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 1333 MHz | - |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit | - |
| Max bandwidth | 14.9 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 4 GB | 3 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | No | No |
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 1920 x 1080 | 2048 x 1536 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265 | H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | Qualcomm MDM9635M | Qualcomm MDM9645M |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 6 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 450 Mbps | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 100 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 4 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | September 2015 | September 2016 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
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