Apple A9

The Apple A9 operates with:

CPU Cores 2.

CPU Threads: 2.

Performance-enhancing, system-enhancing technology that works faster and saves battery with:

Turbo: No turbo base No turbo all cores.

TDP: 5 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: N/A.

This version includes

4.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 1 memory channels to support LPDDR4-3200 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, A9 Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 16 nm

Virtualization None.

The product was released on Q3/2015.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

Apple A9

Family:

Apple A series

CPU group:

Apple A9/A9X

Predecessor:

Apple A8

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

Apple A10 Fusion

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.85 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

No turbo

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

normal

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

LPDDR4-3200

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

LPDDR4-3200

GPU name:

Apple A9

GPU frequency:

0.65 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

No turbo

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

192

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

16 nm

Release date:

Q3/2015

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

L2-Cache:

3.00 MB

Virtualization:

None

L3-Cache:

4.00 MB

Release date:

Q3/2015

Socket:

N/A

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

5 W

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

Intel Core i7-3687U 564 (30%)

Intel Core i3-7020U 560 (30%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G 559 (30%)

Apple A9 558 (30%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G 558 (30%)

Intel Core i5-3210M 558 (30%)

Intel Core i7-3667U 555 (29%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

Intel Pentium J4205 1039 (3%)

Intel Core i3-5020U 1033 (3%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 1026 (3%)

Apple A9 1024 (3%)

Intel Celeron J3455 1008 (3%)

Intel Core i3-5005U 1007 (3%)

Intel Pentium G3220T 1005 (3%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.

Intel Core i5-2415M 250 (2%)

Intel Core i5-2435M 250 (2%)

Intel Core i5-2520M 250 (2%)

Apple A9 250 (2%)

AMD A6-5400K 246 (2%)

AMD A6-5400B 246 (2%)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 245 (2%)

AnTuTu 8 benchmark

The AnTuTu 8 Benchmark measures the performance of a SoC. AnTuTu benchmarks the CPU, GPU, Memory as well as the UX (User Experience) by simulating browser and app usage. AnTuTu can benchmark any ARM CPU that runs under Android or iOS. Devices may not be directly compareable if the benchmark has been performed under different operating systems.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 176983 (25%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 175698 (24%)

Samsung Exynos 8895 175045 (24%)

Apple A9 172160 (24%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 171683 (24%)

Samsung Exynos 9610 171465 (24%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 158369 (22%)