Exynos 9611 vs A10 Fusion

We compared the 8-core Samsung Exynos 9611 (Mali-G72 MP3) with the older 4-core Apple 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

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Samsung Exynos 9611
  • Has 4 more cores
  • Has a smaller size transistor (10 versus 16 nm)
  • Higher GPU frequency (~31%)
Pros of Apple A10 Fusion
  • Performs 4.1x better in floating-point computations
  • Shows significantly better (up to 45%) AnTuTu 11 score – 516K vs 355K
  • Supports 16% higher memory bandwidth (14.9 against 12.8 GB/s)

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
355351
A10 Fusion +45%
516981
CPU 146634 202669
GPU 30478 63274
Memory 82437 84317
UX 95802 166721
Total score 355351 516981
Samples [17 tests] Less than 3
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
A10 Fusion +142%
882
Multi-Core Score
A10 Fusion +34%
1484
Asset compression 69.2 MB/sec 57.7 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 27.4 pages/sec 38.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 30 Mpixels/sec 44.8 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 9.76 images/sec 14.2 images/sec
HDR 38.1 Mpixels/sec 56.1 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 1.54 images/sec 4.38 images/sec
Photo processing 5.84 images/sec 13.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 1.3 Mpixels/sec 1.7 Mpixels/sec
Samples 13 tests 4 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
A10 Fusion +195%
4352
Background blur 2.36 images/sec 11 images/sec
Face detection 1.43 images/sec 9.32 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.08 Gpixels/sec 0.13 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.12 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.06 Gpixels/sec 0.4 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.02 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 5.22 Gpixels/sec 10.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 145.6 FPS 415.5 FPS
API Vulkan Metal
Samples 9 tests 2 tests
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Score - 693
Stability - 85%
Graphics test - 4 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 5186 -
Video editing score 5099 -
Data manipulation score 4791 -
Photo editing score 10017 -
Writing score 6916 -
Phones tested Less than 3 -

Gaming

Table of average FPS and graphics settings in mobile games
PUBG Mobile 31 FPS
[High]
-
Call of Duty: Mobile 40 FPS
[Medium]
-
World of Tanks Blitz 43 FPS
[Ultra]
-
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang 38 FPS
[High]
-
Device Samsung Galaxy A51
1080 x 2400
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We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Samsung Exynos 9611
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-30 (Aginves)AnTuTu357049
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-28 (ROBIZ)AnTuTu331364
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-15 (Somya Lohiya)AnTuTu298360
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-20 (14burgos)AnTuTu393276
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-15 (Robiz)AnTuTu302904
Apple A10 Fusion
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-15 (hellz1)GeekBench GPU4352
πŸ“˜ 2024-02-21 (Cap1bara_tech)GeekBench CPU882 / 1484

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Exynos 9611 and A10 Fusion

CPU

Architecture 4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
Cores 8 4
Frequency 2300 MHz 2340 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - 64 KB
L2 cache - 3 MB
L3 cache - 4 MB
Process 10 nanometers 16 nanometers
Transistor count 3 billion 3.3 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W 5 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G72 MP3 PowerVR GT7600
Architecture Bifrost 2nd gen PowerVR Series7XT (Rogue)
GPU frequency 850 MHz 650 MHz
Pipelines 3 6
Shading units 12 32
Total shaders 36 192
FLOPS 61.2 Gigaflops 249.6 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 1.2

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes No

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4
Memory frequency 1600 MHz 1333 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 12.8 Gb/s 14.9 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 4 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 2560 x 1600 2048 x 1536
Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VC-1
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Shannon 337 Qualcomm MDM9645M
4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 12
5G support No No
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 100 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 5.0 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced September 2019 September 2016
Class Mid range Flagship
Model number S5E9611 APL1W24
Official page Samsung Exynos 9611 official site -
Successor - Samsung Exynos 1580 - Apple A19 Pro

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SSSR October 6, 2025 at 07:00 AM
I doubt the accuracy of this information, as the Apple A10 Fusion processor is not really that powerful. Let someone try comparing the M30s phone with the Samsung Exynos 9611 processor with the iPhone 7 Plus. You will see that the iPhone fails in games compared to the M30s.
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