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Apple A9 vs AMD A9-9420e
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A9
100 %
2C / 2T · 1.85 GHz
AMD A9-9420e
64 %
2C / 2T · 2.70 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A9
100 %
2C / 2T · 1.85 GHz
AMD A9-9420e
43 %
2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A9
90 %
Apple A9
AMD A9-9420e
100 %
AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Apple A9 | AMD A9-9420e |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | AMD A (112) |
| CPU group | Apple A9/A9X (2) | AMD A9-9000 (4) |
| Architecture | A9 | Stoney Ridge (Excavator) |
| Technology | 16 nm | 28 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Notebook |
| Socket | FP4 | |
| Predecessor | Apple A8 | |
| Successor | Apple A10 Fusion |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Apple A9 | AMD A9-9420e |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 2 / 2 | 2 / 2 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Cores: | 2x Twister | 2x |
| Frequency: | 1.85 GHz | 1.80 GHz |
| Turbo (1 Core): | 2.70 GHz | |
| Turbo (All Cores): | 2.40 GHz | |
| L2-Cache | 3.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 4.00 MB | 2.00 MB |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Apple A9 | AMD A9-9420e |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A9 | AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) |
| GPU frequency | 0.65 GHz | 0.72 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 24 / 192 | 3 / 192 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 3 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 4 GB | 2 GB |
| Technology | 16 nm | 28 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2015 | Q2/2016 |
NPU AI performance
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Apple A9 | AMD A9-9420e |
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| AI hardware | ||
| AI specifications | ||
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Apple A9 | AMD A9-9420e |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s) | DDR4-2133 (17.1 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 2 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory channels | 1 | 1 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 3.0 x 8 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 7.9 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Apple A9 | AMD A9-9420e |
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| TDP | 5 W | 6 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. | 90 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Apple A9 | AMD A9-9420e |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Chiplet | Unknown |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | iOS | |
| Instruction set | Armv8-A (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 | |
| Release date | Q3/2015 | Q2/2017 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
User Reviews
Your rating
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